In City Lights From the Upside Down, Alex Z. Salinas' debut collection of short stories, the setting is mostly South Texas-and infrequently, outer space. Mothers dying or dead, brothers with a taste for revenge, bizarre coffee shop encounters, terrifying dreams, strange alien lights, embers of love blazing and cooling-in these stories, a lot happens, and sometimes not much at all. Through precise, raw, and often Christ-haunted language, Salinas builds up characters to bring them to their knees. This book: a roller coaster in the middle of the Texas desert. (Or is it just a mirage?)

City Lights From the Upside Down: Stories by Alex Z. Salinas

Literature & Fiction

Salinas, Alex Z

United States

San Antonio Review

Alex. Z Salinas’ WARBLES, a choral of struggle, of unprotection, irrational fear, serrated jaws, leaking souls, his black hole divine, rabid Chihuahua, and Eucharist in Black Spandex. Mr. Salinas smashes furious words in attempt to reconcile his role as poet, sandwiched between two cultures, kneeling at his grandmother’s grave, seeking definition in the face of all this: A contemplation of bravery.

WARBLES

Literary

Hekate Publishing

Hispanic Sonnets

Poetry

Flowersong Press

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