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Richard James Mehdi's Three Fictions comprises the novellas They Cried to the Girls, An Emergent Skull, and The Single Solstice. In They Cried to the Girls, Spider is trying to become a non-self, a unilateral consciousness, by forgetting the people who love him and throwing out of significance the history of the world. He and his spouse Rivet adopt a child and realize later they don't want to or can't be parents - Spider, still attempting a s...

The title of the antinovel The Food in the Manger refers to the characters, to how they are in various ways abject and philosophically desperate, and, as if in a grotesque stuntedness or foreshortening of the Christ myth, unable to figure out how to be or feel useful to society except as dehumanized objects, fuel, basically. This book is a place where the social pale is not a line, and not even really a white hole that everything darts and sta...

Distractions from Sleep can be considered the first of two volumes of the completed longer work of fiction Furtive and Bearable Cessation. At the opening of Distractions from Sleep, Stuart has become nihilistic and morbidly depressed and he moves into a psychotic break where he thinks he understands the world. He starts conceiving delusionally of towns and people he thinks he has known and loved idyllically before this life. At last, the scene...

Blankness at the Terminus can be considered the second of two volumes of the completed longer work of fiction Furtive and Bearable Cessation. Blankness at the Terminus is a depiction of characters trying to be touched and overwhelmed, trying to come to terms with having given up, or, what is more difficult, with not having given up completely. A lot of this is written in poems taking implicit stock of the world in its aspect as deceptions and ...

Part 3 of The Food in the Manger is a long journal and attempt to work out an idealistic-unto-nihilism philosophy of suicide which Lauria writes after he has become a recluse from inner frustration and an external trauma. He is trying to let go of his life after he has proved by logic that life is not worth living. He is trying to find a reason to do anything at all, late-capitalist artificiality and the difficulty of humility and selfless lov...