Strip Mall: Stories - Softcover

Meade, Matthew Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798988690320

Publisher: Tailwinds Press Enterprises LLC, 2023

Synopsis

A young lawyer moonlights as an ersatz psychic; a woman struggles with the caregiver burden caused by her boyfriend's satanic possession; a suburban mother reckons with Kafka's The Metamorphosis in mass-casualty form. In the blank quotidian spaces of Matthew Meade's debut collection, circumstances of profound and surreal horror-reanimated corpses, conspiracy theorists attacked by "energy weapons," highbrow artwork that's alive (and acting like a jerk)-dissipate with shockingly deadpan ease into sensitive accounts of ordinary human relationships and resilience. With its heartfelt portraits of a magical world where late-stage capitalism has blurred the boundaries between the living and the dead, Strip Mall presents a strangely grace-filled vision of the dystopia already upon us.  

About this title

About the Author

MATTHEW THOMAS MEADE has previously delivered newspapers, worked in a library, planted trees, and served coffee for a living, but he doesn't do any of those things anymore. His fiction has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Bourbon Penn, The Saturday Evening Post, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Rocketflower, won the C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Contest. Some of his work, as well as the one good picture he has of himself, can be found at www.matthewthomasmeade.com. Sometimes he has a mustache.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tailwinds Press Enterprises LLC
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798988690320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206