What happens when logic is pushed to its limits? Is it possible to impose some kind of order on the confusion of human experience? When the very real chaos of life is revealed to the characters in these stories, whether through love, loss or death, they are forced to seek meaning, to look for order in their universe. And sometimes they think they have found it. The people in these stories are gripped by fear, jealousy, grief, shame and, worse, resignation. Mirolla loves his people, not when they are at their winning best, but when they are vulnerable, damaged, loveless. The author's humor illuminates the landscape as he follows his characters in their search for meaning. The characters journey through an interior universe on a magical, sometimes fabulous quest, governed by an unknown logic.

Formal Logic of Emotion, The

Literature & Fiction

Mirolla, Michael

Contemporary

Signature Editions

“As wickedly funny and hilariously angry as vintage Harlan Ellison.”—Spider Robinson, author of Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon“A delightful romp through the metaphysical muck.”—Halifax Daily News“A funny, tragic glimpse into the territory of the absurd, somewhere between Kafka and Vonnegut.”—Calgary Herald“Weird and wonderful . . . imaginative, unsettling, devilishly layered. Mirolla delights in verbal and situational sleight-of-hand, exposing a disorienting world of labyrinthine dreams and menacing recurrent images. Mirolla likes the macabre and grotesque, absurdities and stylistic play. He mercilessly exposes our alienation and primal fears, forcing us to face the awful possibility that we are no more than the product of our own devising.”—Event MagazineThe Berlin Wall falls. A continent away, a mysterious mental patient awakes from a two-year stupor. His obsession with Berlin is unexplained. His escape from the hospital launches a surreal adventure in which past blends with future, and death is used to change the fabric of the world in a freakish experiment on transcendental philosophy. Like Franz Kafka or Italo Calvino in their blending of the real and surreal, or like a psychedelic drug trip, this story brings the reader into West Berlin’s seamy underlife—the omnipresent wall, transvestite bars, and sadomasochism. It is a secret world where a concentration-camp survivor sells gas stoves, a world of philosophical intelligentsia, adultery, and murder. Frenetic, kaleidoscopic, horrible, brilliant.Michael Mirolla, author of novels, short stories, poetry, and plays, lives in Toronto, Canada. His writing has won many awards and has appeared in numerous journals in Canada, the United States, Britain, and Italy.

Berlin

Leapfrog Press

A mental patient. A logician. A mystery. A murder? A city that keeps changing shape. Punk philosophers. Sado-masochism. A disturbing POW diary. A crazed old Nazi. Welcome to Berlin.

Berlin: A Novel

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Michael Mirolla, in The Photographer in Search of Death, tells us stories that blend the explicable with the inexplicable. As if a camel were actually passing through the eye of a needle, these stories pass what is commonplace through a hyper-realistic lens into the utterly mysterious. Houses have rooms that appear and disappear. Very real objects, invaded by an unbelievable force, become believably unreal. Streets filled with everyday individuals become – in our modern technological environment – ultra ordinary. What we wish to avoid becomes unavoidable. This is a world beyond the merely “magical” – this is a binary world of becoming.

The Photographer in Search of Death: Stories of the Real and the Magical

Short Stories & Anthologies

Exile Editions

Vivid language powers the highly inventive narrative of Michael Mirolla's new collection as he navigates vast science and speculative fiction territories. These are bold voyages, to limitless expanses that defy convention - travels beyond the boundaries of the familiar, to cosmic atolls where the reader will take in the wonders of imagination let loose.

Paradise Island and Other Galaxies

Fiction. The landlord, the husband, the wife, and the lover. Giulio di Orio, an assistant lecturer in Philosophy, brings one of his students, known as Torp, to the Vancouver flat he shares with his wife Nicole. Soon their landlord is convinced that Torp is the devil incarnate, and the police have arrested him for the street bombings that have been plaguing the city. A sexually-charged tale bubbling with lust, suspected murder, and the twilight of the flower children—all set against the backdrop of martial law in 1970 Vancouver. "Mirolla has a keen eye for the dynamics of his characters, and we become deeply invested as the narrative pans back and forth between Giulio and Nicole's perspectives. Torp also captures an accurate zeitgeist of Vancouver in 1970, skilfully weaving the novel's fictional elements into the actual historical record ... Mirolla writes with great passion, and his novel will appeal to anyone possessed of a nostalgic interest in this tumultuous period in Canada's history."—Quill &amp; Quire

Torp

Genre Fiction

Linda Leith Publishing

What if there was an evil more dangerous and long-lasting than the Nazis? An evil that continues to spread to this day? Welcome to&nbsp;The Collection Agency Files: Blending historical facts and alternative history themes, this is the story of an all-powerful "collection agency" in Nazi Germany and the adventures of one pivotal agent in the midst of the rapid rise and even more rapid collapse of the Thousand Year Reich.

The Collection Agency Files

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