From the Book of Atmospheres by Robert Scotellaro is a collection of micro and flash stories that explore life at a slant. Often surreal/fabulistic, there is a universality that threads their fabric in unexpected ways. In these tales, imagination is a welcomed guest. And it is clear that light and dark can, in easy union, inhabit these small but flexible spaces.
There is an ethereal, almost otherworldly, quality about Scotellaro’s surreal collection of micro stories. One story is a tale about a woman whose husband is possessed by a “cliché demon” and speaks only in timeworn platitudes. Yet another, a political parable of our time, rues the day when the meek finally do inherit the earth and vengefully vent their long-simmering resentments. Throughout this fabulous book, Scotellaro illuminates the odd and the mysterious by deftly plumbing, in ever-so-brief fictions, the atmospheres that envelop the incongruous and offbeat dimensions of the real. From the Book of Atmospheres is a masterwork.
—Brad Rose, author of Lucky Animals and I Wouldn’t Say That, Exactly.
Robert Scotellaro’s From the Book of Atmospheres is available everywhere today as well as direct from us.