City Lights From the Upside Down: Stories by Alex Z. Salinas

In City Lights From the Upside Down Alex Z. Salinas debut collection of short stories the setting is mostly South Texas-and infrequently outer space. Mothers dying or dead brothers with a taste for revenge bizarre coffee shop encounters terrifying dreams strange alien lights embers of love blazing and cooling-in these stories a lot happens and sometimes not much at all. Through precise raw and often Christ-haunted language Salinas builds up characters to bring them to their knees. This book: a roller coaster in the middle of the Texas desert. (Or is it just a mirage?)