{"product_id":"the-red-light-starts-blinking-9781738360901","title":"The Red Light Starts Blinking","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathon Kane's debut collection of short experimental fiction, equally hard-faced and tender, follows characters searching for a way forward or back or around-some direction, any direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the backdrop of Australia's simultaneously lush and desolate Blue Mountains, a series of men are set adrift. Displaced and in unfamiliar lands, always only passing through, they seek missing spouses, missing children, and missing limbs while searching for a way forward or back or around-some direction, any direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA transient odd-jobber takes a gardener position at a retirement home. A curiously named member of a mysterious network of Sensitives does calisthenics through an interrogation. A recluse contends with their deceased father's missives scrawled in white chalk around a black-painted garage. A man momentarily hosts his estranged grandfather, halfway around the world. The unreliable characters slip in and out of one another's stories, stitching together their self-whittled worldviews in almost undetectable ways. Connections are made and lost amid whispers and glimpses. Alienation and absence abound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLess a collection of short stories and more a set of interlocking teeth, The Red Light Starts Blinking explores the vicious gut-punches and tender-to-the-touch moments of modern life as felt from the fringes. Fragmentary and with significant gaps, the stories play with form and narrative while inviting the reader to a disquieting game of emotional roulette. As one character puts it: disturbed? deranged? delighted? The red light is on-only an attempt at entanglement will tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKane, Jonathon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jonathon Kane currently lives in Australia. The Red Light Starts Blinking is his first fiction collection.","brand":"Diachroneity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324646588690,"sku":"9781738360901","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b802f3c5-adaf-45f4-a506-a5d7048a6c88.jpg?v=1748691510","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-red-light-starts-blinking-9781738360901","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}