Subset Asylum: a collection of short stories

by Marc Ganancias

A hard-living artist keeping a terminal secret from his enchanting lover . . . a pre-teen boy purchasing his first record . . . a vexing fast food drive-thru visit . . . an almost vaudevillian acid trip . . . two arguing siblings, one a defiant believer and the other a rousing skeptic . . . a live show and an overdue break-up . . . an insomniac’s distressing inner narrative . . . a woman seeking to escape her tortured past life . . . a cloak and dagger reunion with an old flame in Genoa . . . road-tripping kayakers stepping into an Elizabethan drama with a Texan twist . . . an elderly man unknowingly reliving the same futile day. These 11 stories are just a few examples found across the vast plain of humanity known as Subset Asylum.

347 pages, Paperback

First published March 25, 2021

Reviews

[Dearwassily · Rating 5 out of 5]

Life, in all of its facets. Philosophical, dryly funny, and written with crisp, clean prose.