The Cars Behind, Beside Us: Short Stories

Previously published under the pen name Israfel Sivad.

A full-immersion baptism in the waters of the freeways of life.

In an attempt to shatter the placid façade that artists so often feel they must present, Michael Anthony Adams, Jr. delves into the nooks and crannies of human psychology to create these stories. Revealing everything from a young man's tired night in Los Angeles to the musings of a pseudo-intellectual restaurant worker in Boston to vignettes of drug abuse and sexual addiction on the streets of Richmond, VA and Baltimore, MD, these tales are told at the breakneck speed of classic punk rock.

Here, Michael Anthony Adams, Jr. writes with ferocity and compassion about the darker sagas of the human soul. This is the world we have inherited and this is the world that we will, unfortunately, pass on to others.

Content Warning: drug use, violence, sexual content