Writing in a Vacuum: Short Stories

Vincent Collazo normalizes the fantastic and makes wonderment of the mundane. In these stories you will encounter hallucinatory worlds populated with eccentric characters wrestling with the challenge of living inside a dysfunctional paradigm. Whether through hearing a telepathic roach tell its life story or exploring the mind of a philosophically delusional artist's model, or entering realms where cats rule humans, where food is a four letter word, where books come alive and dreams talk back, where women secede from society and men disappear into clouds--this collection aspires to transport and transform. Some of these characters sink into the morass of their plight while others find the courage to create havens within prisons. While pontificating on sexual mores, ruminating on the state of modern relationships (and making us laugh along the way), Collazo inspires us with the audacity to see the world as it is and the gumption to imagine new ways to cavort upon the planet.