Should I bring my inhaler and a cigar?
I read 3 pages from the industrial strength romance Somnolent Game to my extended family. A slight shock but the show went on. A hot chocolate and a college crowd were introduced to stream-of-conscious writing Minneapolis style. My old stuff is poetic but too heavy for coffee shops. Performing on a dark stage in a small club might be a better theater. It's amazing what emerges on the page after spending a lifetime drifting in and out of computers, and exploring the artistry of video games. I haven't seriously played in over a decade but they have been heavily influential to my writing. For me it started with Pong, then Atari, Arcade games, Nintendo, and finally Xbox.
Tonight I sold zero copies. And gave away zero copies. It's available at Amazon and a few stores in Minneapolis, Extreme Noise Records and Eat My Words Bookstore. I think Lucky Cat Records might also have a copy. They seem to disappear from libraries. I dedicated the book to Xenia (UA) because with all the stupid wars life has become so ephemeral.
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