"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

— Carl Sagan, from Cosmos

You’ve never seen anything like Socotra. It’s like some distant, foreign planet:  centipedes as big and fierce as rats, anthropomorphic Fig Trees standing guard before sweeping limestone citadels, Dragon’s Blood Trees eerily hovering like flying saucers across the narrow coastal plains beneath their mother ship, known as the Skund Mountains.

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Through Stories, We Find The Parts Of
Ourselves We Never Knew Existed

P. K. Garrison has published short stories in Mississippi Review, Karamu, Wire Magazine, the Fiction Collective anthology An Illuminated History of the Future and the JEF anthology Offbeat/Quirky Fiction, as well as numerous articles of literary criticism.  He co-owns a bookstore with his wife, Robyn, in the Chicago suburb of Darien, Illinois. The Cryptic Reflex is Garrison’s first novel.

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“‘What we’ll be searching for primarily,’ he said, now cupping my chin in his slender fingertips like an egg, ‘isn’t a new species of bird or fish or the latest medicinal miracle shrub, but something for which it is impossible to be entirely prepared, something which could shake and, indeed, possibly disintegrate the very psychic substrata upon which this charming, lissome face of yours rests.’”

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