Game 5

Author: Jim Meirose

“Jim Meirose’s Game 5 is a xenonarratif on a “heemiotrilliac pole,” a “sciaticatistical”
kneešljópanec on catawrit, a glitch in the antidialogical “kip’t-kurrunga” which burrows into the necrosemynal “queak h ! !PID kaeuqs W gnilf ylf” with the “fununarialistical vi” of a “rekkaB-adnaK” on a “vitale statisticcommo-gluggli.” This rebus in a cwabbamire is a dystopic “zolarrrrr iiii annnann e e zOL ARRiarerre” whose periphery creases the 13.787±0.020 of prīsmosourine”—Daniel Y. Harris, author of The Posthuman Series, (Volumes I-VI, BlazeVOX)

“Like white noise between stations, Game 5 by Jim Meirose weaves a caustic and
revelatory archway of form, an extended novelistic text with bold chordal clustered
motifs and a musical syntax. Narrative stories, in sartorial fashion, are woven literally
into other stories, to both block and intersect across the page. Gritty speculative
dystopian space opera meets kitchen sink east-coast American realism with a skewed, shark instinct, orbiting multi-text musical bravura following a tornado. We monitor interpersonal relationships via sci-fi video games, cross-planetary bridges, popular culture figurines, workplace and bunkhouse rants, philosophical social-status musings and inner journeys exploring kinetic consciousness, hurled tropes, status games, lawn furniture, suburban madness, a politique of gnashing panache. You can read this book forward, backward, in parallel tracks; ride along its precarious arching span, a skyway over an ocean of fonts, typefaces, and searing dialogic. Built on a life of experimentation, Meirose’s art is bold and inspiring, breaking with the proscenium stage of one-way transmissions, a bungee jump into polyphonic vectors of rage, a biting satirical dream walking” – Robert Frede Kenter, author of Father Tectonic (EthelZine Press, 2025).

“Envision a community facing economic ruin. Follow the remaining residents' day-to-day struggles. Lay this out in plain, solid prose. Now; peel back layer after layer, exposing the entrails. Massage the inner and the outer levels into one smooth flow. “Game 5” now lies before you. Relax and enjoy”—Tom Ball, writer and chief editor (fleasonthedog)

Details: Print (B Format, 343 pages)