America died
while no one was looking.

All that remains is the skeleton of a land riddled with demise and what had once been referred to as domestic symmetry: those commodities we once called our friends, our colleagues, our neighbors.

People have fled the land in massive pilgrimages with little more than a moment’s mourning; but one family has remained within their home, unable to move on. In order to have a second chance, they first need to figure out how to fill the hole America left in their lives.

When there is nothing left, they look up to the sky conducting patterns across time. They admire its loyalty and pull hope from the cumulus clouds before they drift apart and disappear. They want to let go.
Might they find closure in the clouds?

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PRAISE FOR MICHAEL J SEIDLINGER’S THE SKY CONDUCTING:

“This is the obscure voice-over for the back-alley director’s cut of our lives as American actors. And the cameras are still rolling.”

–Stephen Graham Jones, author of Demon Theory, All the Beautiful Sinners, and Zombie Bake-off.

Seidlinger’s The Sky Conducting charges and hums, a post-apocalyptic dreamscape of family and America and hope caked with ash and buried beneath the malls and the mud, a song of imagination, an indictment of crumbling dogmas, a gentle and savage plaything. Let Seidlinger guide you through the muck and the fear. It’s clear he knows where he’s going.

–Mel Bosworth, author of Freight.

“Michael Seidlinger’s terrific new novel pruned my skin. Seriously, I was reading it in the bathtub one night and I stayed in the water for a good couple of hours, deeply engrossed. It’s that immersive (so to speak). It also marks a confident new direction in his work. The Sky Conducting is elegant, disturbing, and important. Buy it and read it.”

–Nick Antosca, author of Fires, Midnight Picnic, and The Obese.

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PRESS:

The Sky Conducting excerpt @ Metazen.

The Sky Conducting reviewed by Alex Pruteanu.

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EXCERPT (Click here.)