Cosmuseum

2021 | Fiction | 209 pages pdf | Illustrations by Sami Alwani | 978-1-63848-318-2

A mobius strip of human history unfolding in administrative and metaphysical bedlam!

Sean McDonell's experimental novella takes the reader across a museum that bends time and space, fact and fiction, bringing the supernatural and banal for exhibition in the grandest sense of the word: magnanimous, sometimes comedic, always on the move. Shall the museum staff succumb to administrative decay? When will the director return? is there another 'bat' related exhibit?

"On a childhood trip to a natural history museum, the name of which I can’t remember, I noticed an officer roping off a corridor. Blocked from me, that hallway’s marble tiles hit the horizon. As my imagination jumped over the barrier, the real bones around me disappeared, collapsing like cardboard scenery. My mind fell into what-ifs—maybe animals had escaped, maybe some collections only opened at night, maybe there were whole exhibits made of human skin. In Cosmuseum, Sean McDonell has taken a similar imaginative leap to its largest conclusion: a museum that covers almost all time and space."

-Sean Sam, Ligeia Magazine Summer 2021 Issue <https://www.ligeiamagazine.com/summer-2021/cosmuseum-review-sean-mcdonell/>