Killing Sun

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This debut collection of short fiction by Thomas Sanfilip is an auspicious arrival on the shifting currents of contemporary writing. Equally as compelling in breadth and scope as his critically recognized poetry, The Killing Sun explores the tragedy and duplicity that test the authenticity of modern lives seeking self-fulfillment. Though thematically intertwined, Sanfilip's stories take no one specific geographic locale as their starting point. Rather, his stories begin and end within the very characters themselves whose conflicted perspectives of reality lure them into believing they have found the answer to their own angst and disillusionment, but in the end pay the consequences for their own self-delusions. Sanfilip's prose consistently lifts the mundane and inconsequential to levels of real artistry and literary style without pandering to meaningless effects or post-modernist ennui. His stories are uncompromising in probing the distorted mirror and crippled ethos of our time with subtle, yet unrelenting keenness. In the end, he exposes in painful but brilliant light the tenuous relationship between faith and reason, image and illusion, enlightenment and despair as played out across the kaleidoscope of modern lives.