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Michael Anthony Adams Jr.

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This author is also published under Israfel Sivad.

Michael Anthony Adams, Jr. is originally from Whittier, CA. He's the author of two novels, five collections of short stories, seven collections of poetry, and a memoir. He holds a master’s degree in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in New York City. As a teenager, he was the lead vocalist and lyricist for Richmond, VA-based hardcore band Broken Chains of Segregation. He’s the founder of Ursprung Collective, a spoken word/music project referred to as “fantastic brain food” on ReverbNation. He was the primary lyricist on indie rock group One & the Many’s first two albums, Forms and Hours. His writing has appeared in the Santa Fe Literary Review, The Stray Branch, Badlands Li
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Here’s How You Fly: Chapter 1

Like the sounds hidden in a record’s grooves, smoke hung heavy and thick. It obscured the light from above as if the smog from his California childhood had followed him across the country. His dad still lived there, in Southern California. He’d been in Virginia for three years, since the summer of 1988. Now it was 1991. Not that the year made any difference. He was in ninth grade. Childhood—along

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