"It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would
never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiastically they drive you to
your own destruction: even the kindest ones, the ones that are most
loving, can rarely have your interests truly at heart, because usually
they are advising you from within lives of greater security and greater
confinement, where escape is not a reality but simply something they
dream of sometimes. Perhaps, he said, we are all like animals in the zoo, and once we see that one of us has got out of the enclosure we shout at him to run like mad, even though it will only result in him becoming lost."
~~ from Outline by Rachel Cusk
Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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