37 fictions

A canoe trip down a hidden river. Small town life as seen from a tree-top perch. A man suddenly finds himself a character in a novel by Jean Paul Sartre. A young woman awaits the return of her lover from the sea. A group of performance artists attain transcendence. A young writer moves in and out of his own stories. The poet Rimbaud's tongue becomes a treasured relic. A small child recounts an ocean voyage and its hardships. A group of homeless children organize to form a virtuoso violin ensemble. A young college student's meditations on the NYC subways. A family takes a magical road trip to buy a dog. A little girl is lost in a painting. A poet's admirer wonders how to get a poem written about him. An old man contemplates the legacy of surrender.Does the 'self' exceed its own descriptions? Can the self pre-exist its memories? Or is the 'self' coincident with Time itself and the ultimate arbiter of Being's margins? Such might be the questions these stories are constrained from answering. Expressionist, surreal, symbolic, post-modern, but none of them really, 37 fictions is a collection of short stories that explore the varied illusions of narrative, where the limit-conditions of art extend themselves into the real in order to render themselves, and it, at least true, for now.