Eric Cecil - These six stories take the familiar and strange, run them through squalls of cognitive dissonance, exploring a vision lurid and serene, twisted and soberingly beautiful, populated by pulsing throngs and whispering torments, a sun-scorched wilderness of rumination tethered to a stately, suspenseful narrative form

Eric Cecil, Tunnels, Expat Press, 2018.


Friends – Eric Cecil
Tunnels (early draft) – Eric Cecil


A drifter stalks the streets of a nameless metropolis in an obsessive pursuit. A couple are terrorized in their home by an implacable infestation. A bizarre domestic incident is recounted from memory to a probing presence at a squalid diner. A road trip through shifting, majestic abysses and infernos forms the center of an unlikely pilgrimage. An alluring specter seduces an honest man to murder his darlings in a recursive, cathartic trance. A working stiff shows an apartment and gradually descends into a nightmarish reverie at once claustrophobic and transcendent. Eric Cecil bounds into the literary landscape with six stories of nerve shredding soul searching, of introspection and acute, unsentimental humane observation. Tunnels is an otherworldly funhouse of unsettling architecture, of hidden spaces in the psyche and impossible structures. At each turn, the nature of reality is challenged, revoked and returned. These six stories take the familiar and strange, run them through squalls of cognitive dissonance, exploring a vision lurid and serene, twisted and soberingly beautiful, populated by pulsing throngs and whispering torments, a sun-scorched wilderness of rumination tethered to a stately, suspenseful narrative form. Tunnels is a startling debut of terror and rich interiority from a studied outsider. It ventures to exotic, psychotic places and single-mindedly restores the promise of adventurism in literature. Fire walk with me. Oblique, arcane forces compel you to read this.


Interview with Eric Cecil


Eric Cecil, God's Children, Cecil Publishing, 2018.               


Eric Cecil explores being a consumer advocating for social justice in the mental health field. God's Children links the spiritual health of community, country and world to the recovery of men and women living in the mental health system, illustrated in such poems as "Plight" "Sunday Morning Rambling Blues," "Advocate" and "God's Children." An unforgettable autobiographical look at severe mental illness, God's Children offers hope for those suffering from it.




Eric Cecil, A-Train Blues, Cecil Publishing, 2018


In A-Train Blues, Eric Cecil becomes the haunted voice of America, lost in the ashes of September 11, 2001. Politically observant and painstakingly autobiographical, Cecil works out the hopes and dreams of humanity in "In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in "Conscience Alone" and discovers "The Word of God." Through a journey of madness and heartache, hope remains. "I still believe that even from smoldering ashes on earth, that love with ascend to the throne of the moral universe and peace will reign."


Eric Cecil, The Song of the Spirit, Cecil Publishing, 2018.      


The Christ. God is female. An encounter. This is the conclusion of Eric Cecil's writings on peace and love.




Eric Cecil, The Lifting of the Veil, Cecil Publishing, 2018.      


The Lifting of the Veil is a raw and vulnerable look at poet Eric Cecil. Originally titled Secrets, The Lifting of the Veil is the culmination of a decade of thought and work. Arranged in 3 distinct books, Cecil offers eclectic, autobiographical poems in Book I; challenges dogmatic religious thought in Book II as well as recalls writings from his first book, A-Train Blues; and in Book III offers the reader a new conception of God. Cecil writes using various moods and poems ranging from despair and doubt to hopefulness for a new world based on unconditional love.