Product Description
by Nikolas P. Robinson (Author)
"...a brave and thought-provoking piece of work filled with palpable emotions and plausible situations." - David Moody (Author of Hater)
"... quiet story that sneaks up on you and leaves you holding your loved ones a little closer." - T.R. Stoddard (Author of Don't Ask, Don't Tell)
A short, but well-paced and compelling exploration of the themes of unrequited love and the insanity that accompanies it in the midst of a world sliding into madness. A story of love, regret, and the end of the world expressed with a poetic voice and postmodern sensibilities; it could be described as being a combination between George A. Romero's The Crazies and an amalgam of The Notebook and Love In the Time of Cholera.
The story follows Nathan, recently employed as an overnight orderly in a state mental hospital. He has found himself lucky enough to develop a friendship with Leyna, another of the overnight staff, but that friendship quickly becomes something far more intense for Nathan, a fact which he chooses to keep to himself. Suffering through the turmoil of his unspoken desire for Leyna and inured to the environment of a mental hospital and the madness that has afflicted him in his personal life, Nathan neglects to notice the signs that become more and more prevalent in the world around him, signs indicating that something terrible is taking place. As the world descends into madness, Nathan and Leyna remain at the institution, hoping that isolation might protect them from the world collapsing around them, but in the end there may be no escaping some tragedies.
Author Biography
Nikolas P. Robinson (1978-Present) was born in Saint Paul, MN but spent most of his life in and around Rapid City, SD where he still resides with his children, a beagle, a cat, and two ferrets.
A former musician, some of Nikolas' non-literary artistry can be found with the relatively unknown musical project Alter Noctvm...Alter Idem (roughly translated from Latin into English as Another Night...Another Identity) where he provided vocals, bass, percussion, and some synth/programming.
"A Wreck In Progress: Assorted Poetry" was his first published work, a collection of poetry that he compiled from years of material that he had previously accumulated.
In addition to poetry, he has written a couple of novels (all but one of them, Unspoken, at this time unpublished), a number of short stories, and is currently in the process of further writing as well as again working on music (with an as yet untitled project).
