Other People’s Showers
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[quote style=”boxed”]Mark Paterson’s first story collection, Other People’s Showers, is an easy and enjoyable read that is occasionally humourous and occasionally macabre. Paterson’s characters are acutely human and petty as they negotiate public and personal spaces and try to find their own way of belonging and connecting to one another. Paterson’s unique blend of tenderness, humour and horror is engaging as he explores what exactly compels us to inspect a stranger medicine cabinet, laundry hamper or casket. —Ibolya Kaslik, Montreal Gazette[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Other People’s Showers is a collection of fiction from just the other side of normal, in which seemingly ordinary people possess strong desires toward the deviant.” —Melora Koepke, The Hour, Montreal[/quote]
We’ve all used other people’s showers, whether it be in a hotel where the shower caps are free or in your grandmother’s house where a long back scrubber hangs from the shower nozzle. Washing in other people’s showers is a common human experience, mundane on the surface but riveting once we realize that another person’s shower is not only a physical place, but a state of mind we are entering into. And that is what we do in these nine stories – we enter other people’s showers, other people’s lives.
Mark Paterson was born in San Francisco and grew up in Montreal where he lives, writes, and basks in the city’s unique blend of pleasure, indulgence, and proper bagels. Published in literary journals and anthologies, Mark is also known as the producer of such events as Power Slam — a cultural exchange between poets and professional wrestlers, Oh The Shame! — an evening of disgracefully bad art, and the cabaret-style series Grimy Windows Variety Showcase.
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