A Mineral Solution, by A.M. Castro

Prose, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

In A Mineral Solution a couple of guerilla documentarians set out to capture Morocco’s literary history, with particular attention to the Beat poets and writers who settled in the country from 1950 to 1970.

But as they navigate the Maghrebi trying to document what was, they often get derailed by the chaos of what is.

A Mineral Solution is a surreal send-up of nostalgia, the burden of dreams, and how moving forward in relationships and one’s own artistic creations often involves letting go of everything altogether.

A.M. Castro is a Salvadoran-American writer. Her forthcoming book Monsters Can Also Cry is due on Gnashing Teeth Publishing in early 2027. Her novella Feet First was a finalist for the Stephen Graham Jones Novella Competition. You can find her work at linktr.ee/alexmcanarneywrites