Vol.1 Brooklyn is happy to present an excerpt from Mark Anthony Cronin’s collection of short stories, Gigantic Failures. (It’s available now via Small Victories Press.) Regarding Cronin’s collection, Amber Sparks noted: “Despite the modern settings, despite pop culture references sprinkling the stories, despite the piles of Walmarts and McDonald’s and AK-47s–these are stories that get at the heart of very simple, age-old truths, and the dream of what it is to be human in any time.”