Inhale

By Scott Michael Craig

Inhale is a multi-genre collection of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction exploring the textures and contradictions of everyday existence, its absurdities, intimacies, fractures, humor, and fragile beauty.

Through sharp wit, fluid wordplay, and emotional attentiveness, these pieces examine the layered states of being that shape human experience, reality, tenderness, connection, isolation, restraint, etc. The writing moves effortlessly between playful observation and piercing insight, capturing the strange language embedded in ordinary moments.

Rather than offering resolution, Inhale leans into contradiction. It lingers inside emotional complexity, social dissonance, longing, irony, and fleeting clarity, tracing the breath between experience and understanding, and isn't afraid to breathe in the chaos.

While not a formal continuation of Cacoethes or Thoughtica, Inhale completes an early emotional and philosophical arc, bridging all the other '-alities' from the first two books and what still remains. Together, these three collections form a layered exploration of human consciousness, its impulses, reflections, and hungers.

This second edition revisits and refines the author's third published work, originally released under the name M. Scott Craig.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493668919
• ISBN13: 9781493668915
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"