High City Walk - Softcover

Grief stricken, a sailor blames a sentient sea for the death of his wife...
An orphan girl searches Europe for the secret of Alchemy...
Illicit lovers try to alter time...
And, in a strange land, a bizarre ritual culminates in the Kiss...

Side-slipping genre as easily as it bends the rules of common reality, these seventeen stories interweave threads of grief and loneliness, yearnings for ages and lives lost and yet to be found, and the transformative power of love and its capacity for destruction. Lyrical, surreal, mythical or everyday, High City Walk spans past, present and futures as possible as they are cataclysmic, yet always it takes you to the heart of it characters dreams and nightmares and finds that, often, there is hope in the worst of situations.

The debut collection from the author of the inventive novel, Vitus Dreams, and the poignant prose poetry sequence, Year W.

Adam has worked variously as a photographer, a web designer and programmer, lasted a whole four days working on a telephone technical support line, and an unfeasibly longer period of time in local government. These days he divides his time between designing book covers for Cinnamon Press, mentoring, and editing Cinnamon s innovative writing imprint, Liquorice Fish Books. His speculative and weird fiction short stories have appeared in anthologies from Dog Horn Press, Alchemy Press, BooHoo Books and Eibonvale Press. His first novel, Vitus Dreams was published in early 2015, and a volume of prose poetry, Year W, followed later the same year. High City Walk, is his first short story collection. Adam is currently working in his second novel, In Dreams, the Minotaur Appears Last.