A. T. Grant

As David and Marcus travel from Morogoro in Tanzania into the remote Uluguru Mountains, they are immersed in a community facing threats from both the natural and the spirit world. Apollo, a local game reservist, is tasked to protect Marcus' group. No longer the ranger he once was, he is haunted by strange leopard encounters on Kilimanjaro and in the Selous. As some of their fellow travellers get lost in the jungle, an unexpected arrival from the past brings a surprising twist.

Tailwind Adventures -

Leopard Skies

Robert Lopez

Matt Bell

Patty Yumi Cottrell

Sarah Rose Etter

Tom Whalen

Lindsey Drager

Jessica Alexander

Meghan Privitello

Alan Sondheim

C. Dylan Bassett

Emma Sovich

Joseph Aguilar

N. Michelle AuBuchon

Ruth Baumann

Eric Lloyd Blix

Trevor Calvert

Hunter Choate

Benjamin Clemenzi-Allen

Jon Cone

Stella Corso

Tim Earley

Knar Gavin

Pamela Gesualdi

Lindsay Herko

Matthew Mahaney

Elizabeth Mikesch

Thirii Myint

Eleanor Perry

W. R. Porter

Jessica Richardson

Boyd Spahr

Adam Strauss

Sara Veglahn

The eleventh issue of Caketrain, featuring new work from Joseph Aguilar, Jessica Alexander, N. Michelle AuBuchon, C Dylan Bassett, Ruth Baumann, Matt Bell, Eric Lloyd Blix, Trevor Calvert, Hunter Choate, Benjamin Clemenzi-Allen, Jon Cone, Stella Corso, Patty Yumi Cottrell, Lindsey Drager, Tim Earley, Sarah Rose Etter, Knar Gavin, Pamela Gesualdi, A.T. Grant, Lindsay Herko, Robert Lopez, Matthew Mahaney, Elizabeth Mikesch, Muxxi, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Eleanor Perry, W.R. Porter, Meghan Privitello, Jessica Richardson, Alan Sondheim, Emma Sovich, Boyd Spahr, Adam Strauss, Sara Veglahn, Tom Whalen. Edited by Amanda Raczkowski, Joseph Reed, Tanner Hadfield and Katy Mongeau.

Caketrain

As David and Marcus travel from Morogoro in Tanzania into the remote Uluguru Mountains, they are immersed in a community facing threats from both the natural and the spirit world. Apollo, a local game reservist, is tasked to protect Marcus’ group. No longer the ranger he once was, he is haunted by strange leopard encounters on Kilimanjaro and in the Selous. As some of their fellow travellers get lost in the jungle, an unexpected arrival from the past brings a surprising twist.

""There is a great imagination at work in the brilliant Collected Alex, a fiction that becomes increasingly complex in each of its three parts, the narrative turning inward and outward at different points, reaching an apex that is at once cerebral and visceral." - Michael Kimball, author of Big Ray * "A. T. Grant's debut is a haunting, a bildungsroman in which a boy's parents give him a dead body to carry, to care for, to befriend. The book sits on your neck, an immobile mass ghosting you down, compressing your spine: you dress the body, you feed it, the banal made enticing, talk to it, become brothers. Collected Alex is a simple theme that fugues an intricate, magical, sophisticated, urgent, gorgeous eidolon. Grant's words clamp on and refuse absolution." - Lily Hoang, author of Changing * "If Charlie Kaufman and David Lynch wrote an earnest Buddhist parable together, it might read like Collected Alex. The story feels accessible and elegant, like an allegory about today written by a lonely scholar a thousand years ahead. It's beautiful." - Ken Baumann, author of Solip * "Lovers of misterio autentico will find in Collected Alex a blissful experience. The flowing, deadpan narration of bizarre events leads not to the resolution of a made-up conflict but to something much, much better: the warmth that comes to the soul when it relaxes in good company." - Jim Woodring, author of Congress of the Animals * Collected Alex was the winning manuscript in the 2012 Caketrain Chapbook Competition, as judged by Michael Kimball."--back cover.

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Collected Alex

A. T. Grant

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