My Eyes Are Black Holes - Paperback

by Logan Ryan Smith (Author)

Jack just wants to sleep. He wants to sleep and never leave his bed or the room he lives in within a mysterious mansion on Chicago's Logan Boulevard. But, when events force him to wander, his fragile psyche and questionable memory turns a simple journey out of his room into a nightmarish odyssey, all within the confines of his labyrinthine house. It's a nightmare Jack navigates with half-opened eyes, believing his eyes harness the destructive power of black holes. Jack's tale may not be a haunted house story, but when all's said and done, the house on Logan Boulevard will be haunted-that is, if it can survive Jack's opened eyes.MY EYES ARE BLACK HOLES is a book of madness, drawing the reader into its sticky web of tangled logic, false memory, hallucination, and violence. This is a tale that leaves readers with questions and tests perspective in ways similar to a David Lynch film. Questions create mystery. Mystery creates madness. And madness is maddening.

Author Biography

Logan Ryan Smith writes unclassifiable fiction that fits somewhere in between dark fantasy, transgressive, and literary, all with a dark comedy underbelly and lyrical leaning. His other book of fiction, Enjoy Me (Transmission Press, 2015), is a collection of interconnected stories all told from the main character's POV. Though focusing exclusively on fiction now, his poetry books include The Singers & The Notes (Dusie Press, 2007), Stupid Birds (Transmission Press, 2007), and, more recently, Bug House (Mission Cleaners Books, 2013)-a narrative series of poems that shares many of the same fantastical and thematic elements of his fiction. His stories have appeared in Hobart Journal, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, and Great Lakes Review, which nominated his story "Bret Easton Ellis" for a Pushcart Prize. Logan currently lives in Chicago.