OUT NOW: The Red Light Starts Blinking, by Jonathon Kane 🤩
272 whole pages of alternately beautiful and bizarre prose, all for you!
For fans of:
Thomas Pynchon / Paul Beatty / Amy Hempel / absurdity / alliteration / a light dusting of magical realism / disjointed narratives / sun-baked landscapes / the cockatoo’s screech / dark humour
Test the waters (they’re mighty fine)! Get a free digital copy of “Arthur My Grandfather in 100 Pieces,” a selection from The Red Light Starts Blinking
Jonathon Kane’s debut collection of short experimental fiction, equally hard-faced and tender, follows characters searching for a way forward or back or around—some direction, any direction.
Against the backdrop of Australia’s simultaneously lush and desolate Blue Mountains, a series of men are set adrift. Displaced and in unfamiliar lands, always only passing through, they seek missing spouses, missing children, and missing limbs while searching for a way forward or back or around—some direction, any direction. A transient odd-jobber takes a gardener position at a retirement home. A curiously named member of a mysterious network of Sensitives does calisthenics through an interrogation. A recluse contends with their deceased father’s missives scrawled in white chalk around a black-painted garage.
Less a collection of short stories and more a set of interlocking teeth, The Red Light Starts Blinking explores the vicious gut-punches and tender-to-the-touch moments of modern life as felt from the fringes.
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