Congratulations Professor Matthews!

 Hi!

My second book, Ashes, is available on Finishing Line Press's website for pre-ordering.  The preorder session will last from today, March 21st, to May 27th.  Any orders during that period may arrive sometime during the summer.

 Ashes manifested after my brother and I travelled to the beach where the Colorado River meets the ocean and fulfilled our father’s wish for his ashes to be spread on the Gulf Coast.  Ashes explores the greyish numbness that comes after the shock of loss.  Those moments seem to be locked in some timeless, non-physical world like the Bardo, and to restart time and motion, one must endure those moments of being lost.  Each piece in Ashes is meant to capture the difficulty that comes with attempting to attach meaning to absence, and in the end, the ashen limbo finds a moment to be released.  --Mike Matthews

Ashes can be found on the following link:

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/ashes-by-mike-matthews/