Catchin' the Drift o' the Draft is the second volume in a series of short fictions, including Yellow Bricks and the soon-to-be-released This Here's a Merica, by L.D. Brodsky. Scaling satirical heights and plunging to hallucinatory depths, this gripping collection is a journey through the manic yet lucid world of its characters, whose lives, some riotously funny, others compellingly tormented, are forever altered by the wild, ever-rushing course of current events.

These fast-paced fictions, about persons bedeviled by phobias and physical afflictions arising from the realities of old age, racism, and too-rapid change, are pieces of life that examine the world and revel in its absurdities. If Jonathan Swift, Franz Kafka, and Richard Brautigan could collaborate, the result might be Catchin' the Drift o' the Draft, a highly original, satirical, and altogether entertaining collection of forty-one short short fictions.

Praise for Catchin' the Drift o' the Draft:

"Those who have enjoyed L.D. Brodsky's poems over the years will find new pleasures and insights in his fictions. He seems to show a tonic insouciance in his recent work that never diminishes his serious concerns."
--William Wiegand, author of The Chester A. Arthur Conspiracy

From "Professor Emeritus of Western Civilization":

Nor can he remember that his social landscape was once populated with people, names and faces he can no longer place; he's unable to register guilt at his lack of recognition or realize that the absence of all human beings testifies to a major malfunction.

Most of his biological systems do still function, if considerably less effectively. But whether lying in bed, sitting, shuffling, or gazing in the mirror, he's a stranger to himself. If he could, he'd shake his head in disgust, reprising the phobia that used to assail him: losing one's faculties, which he read about so often in that youthful season preceding his lobotomy.

Also from L.D. Brodsky: Yellow Bricks, the first volume in a series of short short fictions. Meet the auto-factory-assembly-line worker, who appears throughout the series of short fictions, and see how this lovable redneck takes the English language all the way back to its murky origins in stories such as "Stupor Bowl Fever" and "A Month o' Mondays 'n then Some."

Voicing everything from outrageous humor to tragic alienation, Yellow Bricks weaves the raveling threads of our society into one fabric, at once exploding current events and pop culture with the irony they deserve and constricting vignettes into singular life-changing moments.

Praise for Yellow Bricks:

"These delightful stories had me laughing out loud over such things as an insurance policy against alien impregnation, in 'Introducing a New Product,' contemplating the obverse side of Kafka's Hunger Artist in 'The Strange case of the Self-Inflating Jujyfruits Maniac,' and relating in some bizarre, self-introspective way to the first husband in 'Without Missing a Beat.'"
--Robert Vaughan, author of In Honored Glory

"To read Yellow Bricks is to journey through the exciting labyrinth of an artist's mind. These 'short fictions' are penetrating excursions into a literary landscape that not only encompasses the human condition, but the human soul. . . . Life, for some, may be a yellow brick road to the magical world of OZ, but Brodsky tells you where those bricks came from and who laid them and why."
--Jory Sherman, author of The Baron Brand

In addition to these two collections, Time Being Books carries a diverse selection of poetry and essays from the following authors: Louis Daniel Brodsky, William Heyen, Gerald Early, Ben Milder, Rodger Kamenetz, Gardner McFall, Albert Goldbarth, Norbert Krapf, Judith Chalmer, Leo Luke Marcello, Ted Hirschfield, Edward Boccia, Joseph Stanton, Adrian Louis, Virginia James Hlavsa, Robert Hamblin, Joseph Meredith, and Harry James Cargas.

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