• Author: David Patrick Gallagher
• Pages: 172
• ISBN: 979-8-9916364-1-4
• Publication: 2025

About the Book

In this disorienting urban fever dream, Spree! plunges readers into a hallucinatory cityscape where time dissolves and resistance takes unexpected forms. Gallagher’s prose weaves between frenetic movement and philosophical contemplation as two strangers—the verbose, unpredictable Vinegar and the watchful, enigmatic Lacey—forge an unlikely alliance amid escalating civic paranoia.

With language that pulses between stream of consciousness digressions and crystalline observation, Gallagher examines how surveillance and paramilitary presence reshape urban existence. As bell towers toll to unknown schedules and reflective surfaces multiply identities, Spree! asks what freedom might look like in spaces where even rebellion becomes spectacle.

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«The matter of how she gets there is not the matter of being where she and Vinegar need to get. They are racing each other without noticing it. They’re noticing everything else and they’re running after each other. They follow the trace of sirens. Not just the trace. The trace and the artist sketching its way down the street in free colors of tires and light ringing all around them and glinting on the horizon they’ve fought for.»