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Ambushing the Void
James McAdams Literature, Short Stories Now Available Ambushing the Void explores the margins of 21st century America, presenting characters seeking meaning in a world overrun by surveillance technologies, environmental decay, and drug epidemics. In “Red Tide,” a sober home uses predictive analytics to quantify recovery. In “Multiverses,” ghosts haunt the living via social media. “Such Strange Suns" presents a blind girl who misconstrues Amazon Alexa for God, while “Theory of Mind” reveals the world of professional Sock Puppets writing fake product reviews. These unforgettable, insightful stories are sympathetic and idiosyncratic reflections on contemporary life—virtual, real, and imagined. "Ambushing the Void is, like every great book, tender and merciless in its explorations of the human arrangement. The stories here are about love and addiction, which might as well be the same thing in most cases—compulsions that make us suffer and thereby feel more alive. McAdams writes from inside those compulsions, never flinching at the ruin they engender. Even as his characters lie to themselves, he forces us to face the truth. I tore through these tales and didn’t want to look back at them, but I did. You will, too.” Steve Almond, author of God Bless America & Other Stories "If the ongoing pandemic has you feeling isolated, anxious, and disconnected, Ambushing the Void, while not comforting, assures you that you are not alone." Kirsten Bowen, Broad Street Review |
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"If the ongoing pandemic has you feeling isolated, anxious, and disconnected, Ambushing the Void, while not comforting, assures you that you are not alone." James McAdams' collection of short stories, Ambushing the Void, is reviewed in the Broad Street Review.
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"If the ongoing pandemic has you feeling isolated, anxious, and disconnected, Ambushing the Void, while not comforting, assures you that you are not alone." James McAdams' collection of short stories, Ambushing the Void, is reviewed in the Broad Street Review.
Support Independent Press!
Independent presses always tend to operate "on the margins." Support alternatives to the corporate "BIG 5" publishers and Amazon. Buy independent press titles, and buy them direct or through independent distribution channels. Shop Now!
¿Como Hacer Preguntas? Reviewed in The Montague Reporter
"Hales is smart and agile with words, and funny in ways both outright and sly." Thanks to Trish Crapo for the excellent review of this FEP poetry book, and interview with author Daniel Hales.
Albert Tucher's Pele's Domain Reviewed in Crime Fiction Lover
"Tucher made a good choice in setting the story in the midst of Kilauea’s eruption. It is not only an unusual adversary, akin to a hurricane or an avalanche, it adds an overlay of dread to the story – things are out of control. . . . Pele’s Domain is a quick fun read!" -- Vicki Weisfeld in Crime Fiction Lover
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