A Magnet to a Flame is a unique collection of stories whisking the reader away to alternate realities. With names like Sonnet in Elegy of the Cheap Wattle Bottle I Bought at Kroger and Your Blind Date Mansplains "Token Back to Brooklyn" While He Sinks in Quicksand, you can only expect something a bit quirky and fantastical. Even from the Foreword in which the author explains what stories he DIDN'T include from Jose Kwan and the Mystic Turkey of Terror and poetry about calculus, you know you are in for a treat. A Magnet to a Flame doesn't disappoint.

VIDEO takes us to a video store that transports you through time. I loved the narration of this one, telling us how to experience the jaunt to 1984 like he has many, many times. There's a melancholy feel to it as well. The escapism of the normal, everyday life, in which time is slowly running out, to a place where popcorn scents the air and the stars are coming out and you might, just might find happiness.

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