Wow. Just wow. Every time I read a new piece of fiction by Chad Lutzke, I become a bigger fan than I was going in. His newest work is the novella The Same Deep Water As You. At eighty-two pages, it is a work best absorbed in a single sitting or perhaps two close sessions.
The Same Deep Water As You is a series of vignettes about a group of skateboarders, their relationships, it's about love and loss.
Music is the soundtrack of our lives. Good or bad, it tells a story.
There are many gems in this story. Bits of wisdom, like...
"...you really don't know how to treat a girl when you're 19. It's like trial and error and nothing gets figured out until it's too late."
"John really had changed, and I couldn't stop thinking about what he said. I thought about it all night, especially while standing alone, pissing in the marijuana jungle."
The Same Deep Water As You has more than one of those "Oh, wow" moments, the kind that just knocks the wind out of you. The more I read, the more I really enjoyed Lutzke's latest work. It's hard to pigeonhole what kind of story this is. This holds true for much of his body of work. I guess speculative fiction would be the best way of describing what he writes. But the bottom line is, it's just great writing.
Definitely recommended.
The Same Deep Water As You is available in both paperback and Kindle formats.
From the author's bio - Chad lives in Michigan with his wife and children. For over two decades, he has been a contributor to several different outlets in the independent music and film scene, offering articles, reviews, and artwork. He has written for Famous Monsters of Filmland, Rue Morgue, Cemetery Dance, and Scream magazine. He's had a few dozen stories published, and some of his books include: Of Foster Homes and Flies, Wallflower, Stirring the Sheets, Skullface Boy, and Out Behind the bard co-written with John Boden. Lutzke's work has been praised by authors Jack Ketchum, Stephen Graham Jones, James Newman, Cemetery Dance, and his own mother.
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