Nicholas Gomez

Palate Cleansers for the Meek Nicholas Gomez

Day in and day out, everyone lives with an inner voice they call "thoughts". But not everyone listens. In his third collection of short stories, Nicholas Gomez confronts us with the reality of being at our wits' end. A man's life starts to unravel before his own eyes when he travels with his girlfriend to visit her parents. An alcoholic writer hears the sound of violence from his balcony as he drifts in and out of consciousness. A recovering addict tries to help his best friend by actively ruining his life. In short, fiction of wide emotional range and unrelenting honesty about the struggles of the human mind.