In turns disturbing, upsetting, and funny, These Symptoms offers us characters pushed to the edges of extremes—a man in a mid-life crisis, desperate to escape his boring life; a doctor whose sympathy outweighs his common sense; a scientist long on ambition and short on morals. The juxtaposition of almost-formal prose and absurdist scenarios creates an effect you will feel long after you finish reading.
—Rebecca Cuthbert, In Memory of Exoskeletons
“Submitted for your approval: the provocative, weirdly funny, sometimes disturbing world of Phillip E. Temples’ brief fictions. With deft control, Temples takes you on roller coaster rides that are over before you’re strapped in. But you happily buy your next ticket, hoping for another flash of Schrodinger’s Cat triumphant, of monsters-turned-babies, of hoarders-turned-saints. Wait, was that? you shout. And then you’re off again. Wheeeeee!”
—Kevin M. McIntosh, author of Class Dismissed
“More quirky and engaging tales from an ever-evolving master of the shiver genre. These Symptoms is fresh and stimulating prose from an original and protean mind that taps all the dark corners to bring the reader captivating yarns of the macabre and provocative.”
—Michael C. Keith, author of Quiet Geography and Bodies in Recline
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I’m pleased to report that my chapbook-length manuscript, These Symptoms (previous working title was Transmogrify) has been picked up by Alien Buddha Press. The chapbook will appear in early 2023.