From the author of Stupid Crimes, Krekshuns and Stand in Hell come more fictional wanderings. Gas Tank & Other Stories casts disparate characters into tumultuous scenes of moral terror, testing their courage, energy, and capacity to endure.

Praise for Gas Tank & Other Stories:

"Gas Tank & Other Stories isn't just another work of gritty realism or a chronicle of beautiful losers. Bolen tempers the moral dissolution and despair of these stories with a unifying vision of survival and transcendence, of self-affirmation achieved through rage and struggle ... These stories are testaments to individualism, chronicles of regular people raging against the social and economic machines they are caught within." (Quill & Quire)

"Brutality, death and moral vacuums are the stuff of Dennis Bolen's new collection of short stories and novellas. Bolen's reputation to date rests largely on his ability to represent the underside of contemporary society with gritty, unflinching accuracy. Gas Tank & Other Stories will confirm this distinctive Bolen territory with its blend of understated grotesquerie and a social realist's concern for human lives blighted by neglect, indifference and exploitation. Each piece in the collection focuses on the individual's capacity to absorb threat and damage - physical, psychological, emotional - and still endure. But Bolen also shows how human capacity for resilience and survival is much darker and more ambivalent than our cultural myths of heroic suffering suggest." (British Journal of Canadian Studies)

"A riveting read from start to finish." (Dead Rats Press)

Dennis Bolen's profile page

Since his first highly-acclaimed 1991 novel, 'Stupid Crimes' (Anvil Press), Dennis E. Bolen has written three other novels: 'Stand In Hell', 'Krekshuns', and 'Toy Gun' (Anvil Press). He is also the author of the short story collection 'Gas Tank & Other Stories' (Anvil Press). He has worked as a parole officer in Vancouver and has taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia. For many years Mr. Bolen held the post of fiction editor for the literary journal 'subTerrain', contributing editor to the 'Vancouver Review', and has acted as a columnist and part-time editorial board member at the 'Vancouver Sun'.