Description:
Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter in 1970 while high on LSD. That's the legend.
Seams of the Infinite reframes a legendary sports moment as a battle against the machinery beneath reality.
Brief description: D. William Graves is a dark fiction author and the founder of Lacandon Jungle Press, an independent publishing house dedicated to bold storytelling across genres and generations. His work explores the fault lines between history and myth, often uncovering the quiet machinery that shapes culture, memory, and power.Through Lacandon Jungle Press, Graves curates and publishes original fiction, experimental narratives, and culturally rooted stories that resist easy categorization. His writing is driven by a fascination with the strange intersections of American history, speculative imagination, and the stories we tell to survive both.Whether crafting unsettling cosmic horror or building platforms for emerging voices, Graves approaches publishing as both art and excavation-digging beneath the surface to reveal what lingers in the seams.
Review Quotes:
A beautifully written cosmic horror novel that wraps in real historic occurrences with a dark and surreal tint. The descriptions in this book pull you in and place you there on the streets or the baseball diamond. A clear love and understanding of the game shows itself throughout and the surreal elements slither their way through the pages.
Much of the darkness in this book is born from the dim realities supporting the story. The thrum of racism runs deep, a juxtaposition against the excitement and supposed innocence of a baseball game.
Dock Ellis, the main character in Seams of the Infinite, was a real baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates who famously pitched a no-hitter. This story takes a deeper look at that game, at what led up to it and shaped it, at the cosmic influence and how it looked from the inside out.
Steeped in chaotic history and surreal beauty, this was a fantastic read.
- Shannon Lawrence