My Heart Said No, But the Camera Crew…
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“Have you ever had one of those nights when you could swear in front of a court of law that you haven’t had a wink of sleep, but the prosecutor would have a field day with details concerning your alarm clock going off after what seemed like only an hour and your lingering memories of mischievous lawn furniture?”
Forget everything you know about life, the world, and all the objects in it. Bradley Sands can bend them to his will with a frightening disregard for reality. You never know who, or what, is lying in wait behind the next comma. Whether it’s Super Noxious Air Man and his sidekick, Kid Centrifugal Force, or the next episode of Teddy the Rottweiler Spayer, Sands keeps you off-balance with laughter and astonishment.
These stories are crammed with the delightfully odd and the scurrilously silly. From moment to moment My Heart Said No requires the most unexpected, perplexing, and hilarious leaps of faith. But you’ll be glad you took this exhilarating jump into uncharted territory.
What They’re Saying About Bradley Sands’ Fiction
“Have you ever had one of those nights when you could swear in front of a court of law that you haven’t had a wink of sleep, but the prosecutor would have a field day with details concerning your alarm clock going off after what seemed like only an hour and your lingering memories of mischievous lawn furniture?”
Forget everything you know about life, the world, and all the objects in it. Bradley Sands can bend them to his will with a frightening disregard for reality. You never know who, or what, is lying in wait behind the next comma. Whether it’s Super Noxious Air Man and his sidekick, Kid Centrifugal Force, or the next episode of Teddy the Rottweiler Spayer, Sands keeps you off-balance with laughter and astonishment.
These stories are crammed with the delightfully odd and the scurrilously silly. From moment to moment My Heart Said No requires the most unexpected, perplexing, and hilarious leaps of faith. But you’ll be glad you took this exhilarating jump into uncharted territory.
What they’re saying about Bradley Sands’ Fiction:
“… Sands’ stories bleed enough potential symbolism to rival a Bob Dylan song. They are the kind of stories where you always almost have a handle on what’s going on, but only just almost…”
—Verbicide
“…they are stories of dream- and nightmare-logic which sweep the reader along a course that can only be understood when the reader thinks like a dreamer; that is, through association rather than cause and effect, sharp image rather than sharp logic.”
—Pedestal Magazine
“In my mind, there are two ways to enjoy this book: you can let it all wash over you, or you can dive into each sentence and drink every word. I’m a drinker and found a lot of enjoyment slowly working through each sentence and tying them all together.”
—Clockwork Father
“… Bradley Sands understands how to write genre fiction (bizarro, new absurdist, splatterpunk, et cetera) while not forgetting that genre literature is still literature – these stories are not simple plot hacked open with violence but instead adjective stuffed phrases that twist in milked description.”
—Big Other
“The stories have the classic Bradley Sands style – the exact thing that attracted me in the first place. Yes, it’s crass. Yes, it may piss you off. Yes, it’s funny as hell. Even for a short-fiction hater, like myself, I left each story with a smile on my face.”
—The Authors Speak
“There’s a place past all reason, most possibility, and all the jokes I can think of. A place shaped kind of like the human heart. Bradley Sands doesn’t write about this place, but he writes from it, pushing farther into the unguessable with each word, each scene.”
—Stephen Graham Jones, author of Demon Theory & It Came From Del Rio
“There is a disorienting alchemy at work in Bradley Sands’ fiction. Here phantasmagoria shifts into stand-up and the avant-garde saddles up besides the geek. Imagine: a hyper-palimpsest beneath which burbles a heady brew of surrealism, poetry, memoir, and horror all set to a DaDa soundtrack that sounds surprisingly like the End of the World.”
—Rayo Casablanca, author of 6 Sick Hipsters & Very Mercenary
“A Bradley Sands story is not like any story you’ve read before… [Sands] discounts reality in a way that renders it obsolete. The book’s strength lies in the way irreverent images are juxtaposed, repeatedly, often rhythmically, creating a sensation that has no use for the traditional confines of literature.”
—Outsider Writers Collective & Press
“Reading this collection is like ingesting a bag of fun-colored candy, removing your stomach, and then taking it to a party for use as a pinata. Some readers will love these stories, some readers will hate them but, displayed throughout, is a true love of language and a generous dose of creativity.”
—Andersen Prunty, author of The Beard
“Throughout, Sands displays an adept knack for twisting familiar words and phrases into new forms, altering their meaning while poking fun at the overused, the clichéd.”
—decomP
“Sands is a talented, fearsome, comic visionary who will usher you into the psychedelic matrix of futurity.”
—D. Harlan Wilson, author of Blankety Blank
“I came, I saw, I read, I laughed, I fell out of my chair. You’re more unstable than I am. Well done!”
—Kris Saknussemm, author of Zanesville
“Reading the work of Bradley Sands caused me to vomit happiness and sunshine from my eyeballs. Highly recommended.”
— Kevin L. Donihe, author of Shall We Gather at the Garden?
