Enjoy a sneak peek of two of the stories in the collection included in these brand new anthologies, featuring other great writers!
COMING SOON FROM Červená Barva Press
We grow up with monsters in our lives.
Monsters seen on television and in the movies. They haunt us but often amuse us. We are raised facing monsters in school with friends, adversaries and allies. Some of us have to unfortunately confront monsters at home growing up or at work as we reach for the finish line, whatever that may be. Then we realize that we all have tiny moments of monsters unleashed from within ourselves and that we have to accept and realize nobody is perfect, especially the ones we love the most. We learn to adore and cherish those imperfections in those closest to us, as hard as it may be. We come to terms with asking ourselves if we can look beyond the flaws of others to see the better side of their own inner lives. Maybe we share some of their personal monster-like faults, but we all strive for the positive choice and hope for that.
In his new collection of short stories, Eric Wasserman delves into the unthought of monstrousness beyond the screen and the often-overlooked goodness in each of us that can be shadowed in our daily lives. These stories are not simple because life is not simple. People are not simple. In the end, you can both laugh and cringe at the absurdity with people who share our imperfect world and our imperfect lives, but strive for a better world we look to gain.
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With a touch of the magical, Eric Wasserman deftly explores the mysteries of everyday life. An original, evocative, and often hilarious depiction of the evil spirits who inhabit our world … and sometimes turn out to be us.
Eileen Pollack, author of In the Mouth: Stories & Novellas and The Rabbi in the Attic and other Stories
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Allowing for a bathtub dinosaur, a celebrity Sasquatch, and a university where the Admin adds another step in the tower stairwell at unpredictable moments, in these stories Eric Wasserman writes about people, places and things he knows and sometimes loves. The prose is like water; you see through to the reality beneath and hear over its quiet ripple the common voices of this unusual world. And beneath this, you see and hear the author himself, even when he’s trying to hide.
Robert Pope, author of Disappearing Things: Selected Flash Fiction and Private Acts: Short Stories
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Nothing could be worse than waking up (after a night of disturbing dreams) transformed into a monstrous vermin, but Eric Wasserman, with his dreamy metamorphic fiction collection, The Liar’s Lexicon, wakes me up, again and again, not as a bug but as chameleonized Kafkas and nothing could be better. Wasserman is mad for the deadest of deadpans, fearlessly showing me fear in handfuls of dust’s dust. The stories emerge from beneath Edgar Allen Poe’s Overcoat: blanched, staunched, stunned, and stunning. They are relentless fine-tuned engines, delivering multitudes of effective unities of thrilling effect elegantly and seemingly effortlessly. No, nothing, absolutely nothing, could be better.
Michael Martone, author of Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana and The Complete Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone