Maze Days

by Michael Nye

The offspring of a rock star may well know the feeling of living in the shadows. My parents are a good deal less famous though, and I really don’t mind being associated with the pair of good hearted eccentrics that they are. I like being me as well, and I used to wonder where I fitted in all of this stuff. Scatterbrained, unfocussed, a daydreamer for sure is me. Comments like that coming from those teaching me usually questioned how I could expect to make anything of my life without changing my ways. I haven’t done as yet and probably never will. After all, it doesn’t bother anyone that matters to me. Here then is some of what I have made of life so you can make your own mind up. R.M.S.

363 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 25, 2020

About the author

Michael Nye is the author of three books: the short-story collection STRATEGIES AGAINST EXTINCTION, the novel ALL THE CASTLES BURNED, and his forthcoming collection UNTIL WE HAVE FACES (Turner Publishing, 2020).

He attended the Ohio State University, where he graduated with a B.A. in English, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he earned his M.F.A. in creative writing.

His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in American Literary Review, Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review, Epoch, Kenyon Review, New South, Sou’wester, and South Dakota Review, among many others. His work has been a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in fiction and nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

He lives with his family in Columbus, Ohio, and is the editor-in-chief of Story.