Rich Shapero is a writer and musician who pioneers unseen worlds through his multimedia storytelling projects. He crafts visionary landscapes and characters embodying the universal struggle for personal fulfillment. His captivating stories, which blend fiction, music, and art, offer an immersive experience and have been recognized for their innovative form.
Indulge the obsession of a dying man whose stubborn quest for an ecstatic send-off tests the liberating potentials of belief. Dare to believe in a rapturous transition between life and death that holds the potential to set us free. “Original ideas, strong prose, timelessness and universality . . . Dissolve offers a unique imagining of what might happen to the human soul after it’s left the body.” —Kirkus Reviews
hardcover 1st edition; like new dust jacket (amhbx12)
Take a delirious hyper-metaphorical ride with a love triangle into a fiery cosmos. Shapero’s outer space uncannily mirrors inner space, daring us to ditch our expectations and probe the depths of human desire.
Escape with a disaffected young sculptor from a desert dystopia to “heaven,” a blue ocean realm ruled by a perverse, tentacled god with a mysterious purpose. Your trust may be outraged, but dive deeper and you’ll uncover clues to the creative sea change in our ideals that could redeem a desolate world.
Blaze a trail with two wayward kids as they explore a private forest whose supernatural potentials illuminate the triumphs and follies of desperate imagination.
Wild animus is a search for the primordial, a test of human foundations and a journey to the breaking point.