TT: What is your name?
MC: Michael Colangelo
TT: Where are you located?
MC: Toronto
TT: What is the name of your story in Tesseracts Fourteen: Strange Canadian Stories?
MC: Rocketship Red
TT: What inspired you to write your story?
MC: I was fooling around with old pulp concepts and I was interested at the time in writing science fiction stories where the science was out of date. Sort of false, retro-future future stuff, I suppose. Anyway, I’m always interested in the architecture/collapse of systems and I’m pretty sure the bottom of the American economy had just dropped out too, coupled with all sorts of weird outdated 1950s patriotism/denial attitude stuff in the media. The supernatural element was a natural fit, since, well, all of that is about ghosts really, at its core.
TT: What is one of the strangest things that has ever happened to you?
MC: I used to drive back and forth between Toronto and… Eastern GTA Toronto quite a lot at really early morning hours when hardly any other cars are around.
So once it was something like four o’ clock in the morning and I was coming back on some forsaken back road highway with a kind of hill dividing the eastbound and westbound lanes.
There was something on the road that looked like a bowling ball, so I stopped to get it, because who doesn’t need a new bowling ball, right?
Well, wrong. Because there had been a car accident on the other side of the road and, well, yeah, I slowly came to realize that the bowling ball was actually a human head. It’s sort of like coming across something on the Internet you weren’t looking for, didn’t really want to see, and never want to see again. But, yeah – I found a human head once.
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Bio:
Michael Colangelo is a writer from Toronto.
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TT: Welcome Michael. Where are you currently located?
ML: Montreal, Quebec (visiting Toronto for SFContario)
TT: What is the name of your story in Tesseracts Fourteen: Strange Canadian Stories?
ML: Random Access Memory from Tesseracts 14
TT: What inspired you to write your story?
ML: I had the idea for the technology first - of people recording their memories and experiences and making them available for others - and the idea of a character in trouble, but it wasn't much to go on so I filed it for a while. One day, while driving home from work, a song from my lengthy heavy metal playlist came on - a song about people sitting around playing Russian Roulette. The two ideas came together and I had to pull over so that I could record a voice memo for myself. The story grew from there.
TT: Since this collection is about Strange Canadian Stories, what is one of the strangest things that has ever happened to you personally?
ML: Does having a coyote leap over the median on the 401 in Whitby in front of my car count? It was funny in a $3000 worth of repairs sort of way. Honestly, I'm envious of people who have strange things happen to them all the time. I lead a fairly pedestrian life, which might explain why I like reading and writing about the unusual.
TT: A strange question you would like to ask other authors? (This question will be used at the 15 Days of Tesseracts event on BittenbyBooks.com on December 2/3.)
ML: If you were wallpaper, what pattern would you be and what sort of room would you like to be put into?
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Michael Lorenson was born and raised in Montreal where he still resides with his wife, two sons, and cat. He recently rediscovered a love for writing after a long hiatus. "Random Access Memory" is his first publication but he is looking forward to many more years of letting his imagination carry him where it will.
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