Bone Soup: This and That and Bric-a-Brac

Artist: T.M. Wright

Be afraid, be very afraid, for within this collection — comprised of a novel, short fiction, poetry, and a few pieces of art — you will find real monsters. These monsters are all human, or were human, or want to be human, but, most importantly, they want to possess us.

These are the monsters, would-be monsters, and the monsters-in-training that we want desperately to be rid of, but which, despite our best efforts, fester and grow within us all. Wright's ghosts are fallible, angry, confused, alone, in love, and upset: in other words, they're human, but without all that "unpleasant physicality."

In Bone Soup you will also find a poet's-eye view of the world — at least the confusing, annoying, unpredictable, and often fascinating world in which the author exists.

And so, dear reader, go into T.M. Wright's "alien heart," accept his "good embrace." But beware of monsters, both here, in this collection, and within yourself.

Table of Contents:

• Rainy Day People
• New York Poet
• Circularity
• Mr. Death
• The Music of the Night
• The Man Walking
• After Time
• Cradle
• His Mother's Eyes
• At Rikki's
• 2035–Redux
• The House Under the Street
• The Sign at Vera's Restaurant
• The Lightwater Hawkins Story
• Process
• I Ask
• One of those Poems Aging Writers Write
• The Marybell Women
• Sunsets in 1962
• A Visitor Encounters the Small Screen
• Only Two Legs and No Silk
• The People on the Island
• Gratitude
• More Middle-Aged Craziness
• The Godly Greetings of Dogs
• Introduction to Cold House by Jack Ketchum
• Cold House (novel)
• All at the End of Mid-Evening
• Clocking the Moment
• Weldon Kees
• Tower Man
• Tomorrow, 25 Years From Now
• The Screamers at the Window
• Breakdown
• Tomato as Metaphor

Limited to 750 signed copies bound in full cloth and Smyth sewn and sold out pre-publication