The stories in Survivors of the Hive crackle and pop with Jason Heroux's signature surrealism, inquisitive edge, and dark humour. While situated in recognizable, if labyrinthine, settings like a high school and a house with a centipede problem, these tales exude a huge capacity for slippage, like Dali's watch melting over the ledge. Heroux possesses an uncanny knack for bending the everyday and before we know it, we're in strange worlds rich with linguistic play and dissolving boundaries between past and future, memory and dream - worlds that are, in turn, grisly and hilarious, and often unsettling with the shock of recognition.-
Jeanette Lynes, Author of The Apothecary's Garden
Jason Heroux is a magician. He pulls our world inside out and reveals that it was already inside out. These stories about mysterious poetry contests, affable centipedes, and bewildering nos either delight me or deeply disturb me. My head is spinning and I can't decide which. And don't tell anyone, but I can't recall if I just read this book or dreamed it."
- Stuart Ross, author of I Am Claude François and You Are a Bathtub