“Tranquility” originally appeared in Fiction International (2013). Copyright © 2013 by Michael Hemmingson.
“Consequences of Steam,” “More Allisons Than I Know What to Do With,” “Six Days Apart,” “Trailer Park Trash,” “The Arrangement with Mr. Green,” “The Last Bushel of Grapes,” “Trout Fishing on the Edge of Oblivion,” “The Small Bright White Light at the Center of the Eye,” “Welcome to the Memoirs,” “The Dreamer,” and “The Chronotope” are published here for the first time. Copyright © 2013 by Michael Hemmingson.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Hemmingson lives in Southern California and Baja California, traveling back and forth like a crazy Ping-Pong ball on chai tea lattes. His first independent film, The Watermelon, was released in 2009. He is working on other films, other books, other tales. He is a cultural anthropologist and sociologist, publishing papers on the subject, such as Zona Norte: An Autoethnography. He won the the 2009 Norman Z. Denzin Qualitative Research Award from the Carl Couch Center and University of Illinois at Urbana. He is a two-time Everett Helm Fellow at the Lilly Library of Indiana University, where he conducted research into the papers of Gordon Lish/Raymond Carver, and the art books of William Vollmann. He serves as a radio host with a Wednesday show, The Art of Dreaming, at Revolution Radio (freedomslips.com), where he focuses on the lunatic fringe and exopolitics. This is his first book of speculative fiction, after publishing many books of crime noir, erotica, and literary fiction, from The Rose of Heaven (Prime Books) to Wild Turkey (Forge Books) to Hard Cold Whisper (Black Mask Books). There will be more SF coming soon.
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