The Last Hurrah, by West Ambrose

Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Abandoned in his summer cottage and missing his childhood friends dearly, a boy summons their ghosts with the hope of seeing them one last time. What ensues instead is a summer of storytelling, the Thousand and One Nights with no bedtime. All three play the parts of their shadowplays, both past and present, fantasy and fiction, to pass the days, desperate to never admit what’s on their minds.

The Last Hurrah invites every pneumococcal boy to come out from their sickbed or their studies to play and to desire, at least one last time before shuffling this mortal coil. This time the reader controls the planchette- but the board is changed.

West Ambrose is a scrivener and performing artist. Check out his ever queer works at westofcanon.com. His verse novel, INFERNAS, is available now. If you want anything published in The HLK quarterly or The Crow’s Nest, just ring for the masthead, and let them know.