Vending Machine | Surreal Short Story from "I Press the Button for Hope but Nothing Happens"

Описание: The Vending Machine.

A Surreal Micro-Fiction Short Story Sample.

The entire collection is now available from Drifting Jellyfish:

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"I Press the Button for Hope but Nothing Happens" – 44 Stories for the Existentially Exhausted

Some stories make you laugh, others make you cry—and some quietly dismantle your sense of purpose.

I Press the Button for Hope but Nothing Happens is a collection of 44 surreal, bleak, and mercifully short stories.

Inside, you’ll encounter:
✨ A girl who screams at the moon every night.
✨ A store that only sells empty boxes.
✨ A chair that breaks the moment you sit on it.
✨ A series of bad first dates and worse relationships.
✨ And, of course, a vending machine that ostensibly sells hope.

This is the kind of book that belongs on a shelf alongside Kurt Vonnegut, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, and Haruki Murakami or on a nightstand for when you need a quick existential crisis before bed.

📖 About the Author:
Alec Anderson is the pen name of an academic and author living in the Greater Montreal Region. Their work has appeared in various literary magazines, spanning surreal fiction, crime, mystery, and sci-fi. This is their first collection of micro-fiction.

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