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Born into trouble, strangely deformed, an outcast in his own family, Isaiah’s helpless, hopeless journey bumps him from foster care to the criminal court system on a pathway marked by exploitation, strange dreams, and devouring flames. Full of contemporary social injustice and hallucinatory Old Testament mysticism Jaye Nasir’s Full of Eyes Within is a haunting parable of society’s brutal neglect of the precious and sacred in our midst.

Features an in-depth interview with the author.

He likes the forest that lines the property, the black dirt and the smell of wood rot. Mushrooms, fat with rain, climbing logs like pale tumors. He baptizes himself in the river twice a week. People come from all over the country to have their sins burned away, although he tries to explain, again and again, that it is not that easy.

A garter snake tells him, “Just go along with it. This is your ticket, kid.”

Another tells him, “Get away from this place before you destroy it, too.”

Jaye Nasir is a writer from Portland, Oregon, whose work blurs, or outright ignores, the line between the real and the unreal. Her poems, essays and speculative fiction have appeared in many small publications, both local and international, including Moss: A Journal of the Pacific Northwest, Santa Clara Review, and Antithesis Journal.