I press the button for hope but nothing happens: 44 stories for the existentially exhausted (Paperback)

Some stories make you laugh others make you cry and others quietly dismantle your sense of purpose. I Press the Button for Hope but Nothing Happens is a collection of forty four stories that are remarkably bleak utterly surreal and mercifully short. Among them you ll read about a girl who screams at the moon every night a store that only sells empty boxes a chair that breaks the moment you sit on it a series of bad first dates and terrible relationships and also a vending machine ostensibly selling hope. You can read them all in one go but you probably shouldn t. I Press the Button for Hope but Nothing Happens is the kind of micro fiction collection that would sit well on a shelf for readers of Kurt Vonnegut Jorge Luis Borges Albert Camus Joseph Heller or Haruki Murakami. Alec Anderson is the pen name of an academic and author living somewhere in the Greater Montreal Region. They ve previously published surreal stories in various literary magazines as well as crime and mystery fiction and even sci-fi under a variety of pseudonyms. This is their first micro-fiction short story collection.