J.S. McInroy is a wholly imaginary person with 999 arms.
Mr. McInroy claims to be familiar with various addictions, Norse goddesses on motorcycles, and the allure of each. He adamantly asserts that the divine is always with us, whether riding a chariot across the sky, hanging from a cross, or driving the back roads of America in a Dodge Charger Hellcat. His title is stolen from a Stones lyric, his desert land from his novel Army Girl as well as a forthcoming and as yet untitled book which continues with some of the same themes and characters.
Publication Date: May 13, 2015
ISBN:
Language: English
Format: Digital
Mary Devstenia, is recently returned to Troy, New York from her Army Reserve deployment in Iraq, during which time she was involved in the shooting-deaths of an Iraqi family, including their small daughter. The effects of this incident are most profound, and Mary soon finds herself descending into an emotional Hell of her own creation. Her invisible wounds perhaps are mortal.
Publication Date: September 7, 2014
ISBN: 978-0615906256
Language: English
Format: Digital
Mary Devstenia, Army Girl, is a normal young woman attempting to make her way in a reality which seems
determined to crush her every hope and besmirch her cherished dreams of love, independence, and a modest yet
meaningful place in the world. Her marriage falls apart. Passion becomes humiliation and rape. Family tradition
and working-class necessity turn her both to a community college where she meets the compelling Marina Carey,
her teacher and possible soul mate, and to the Army Reserve which leads her to a desert highway and a fatal
meeting with Fatima and her child.
From that point on, her life becomes a spiral, whether downward or upward, one cannot say. She finds comfort
of a sort in Lenard Cohan, an alienated Vietnam veteran. Her father, David, remains her strength to the end.
But is she not, as one of her tattoos suggests, merely a plaything of the gods? Are not they all?
Maybe the grotesque biker wanna-be Paulie Perfunctorio has the answer. Or perhaps Jennifer, the nuclear cockroach
who is possessed of human intellect. And then there are always Pam and her half-brother Jesus who may know. But
they simply will not tell.
Publication Date: March 9, 2014
ISBN: 978-0615906256
Language: English
Format: Print & Digital
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