The Whisper Lounge

Michael Duda writes about the things a place tries to forget and the people who refuse to let it. His work runs across three lines that share one preoccupation - ruins, grief, and holding on past the point of sense. War Dogs, beginning with the novel Pit Bull, is grimdark military SF: the war ended, the soldier didn't. Rattletrap and Mouse turns the same idea warm; The Whisper Lounge turns it toward horror, set in Akron, where he lives. Different genres, one idea: the holding on is the point. He lives in Akron, Ohio with his wife and their dogs, and spends too much time thinking about buildings that should have been condemned years ago.