Red Book Volume 18

By Andy Mullenax

A scorched-earth elegy from the edge of oblivion. Red Book Volume 18 is the transmission of a soul unraveling in real time. Here, the prophet and ghost is haunting his own wedding photos floating down a poisoned river. Here, Detroit rusts into myth while the speaker pisses on sleeping bags and prays to a God who only answers in silence. From the attic window where the world goes bye to the 7-Eleven bathroom where love is shot up with Gatorade-cleaned needles, this is a requiem for the unhoused heart. Lovers haunt every page like a pop song you can't unhear, their face a silver dress reflecting moonlight on a throat already cut. This is not redemption. This is the sound of a man dragging his body across the bottom of lost oceans, striking the land with a decree of utter destruction while begging: "Save me Save me I am dead "
A suicide note written in ladybug blood. A love letter to a pop star who will never read it. The last tic-tac-toe game played in the dark before the husband comes home from the bar.
"This hell is the deepest wound."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2BL61NM
• ISBN13: 9798274463614
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"