The people of the lost English-Welsh border town Goregree are
losers and weirdos, sometimes pathetic, sometimes terrible. They
all long for something more, but are trapped by poverty, disease,
and addiction to a unique local drug.Inspired by the author's
hometown of Bridgend, Bad Ideas \ Chemicals follows a group of
20-somethings on a bad night out in a depressed, strange little
town. Markham started writing Goregree in his freshman year when
Bridgend was in the tabloids for suicides and everyone was telling
rotten jokes and a similar vein of gallows humour runs through this
nightmarish social satire.One of Goregree's residents, Cassandra
Fish believes she is out of this world, wearing her orange film-set
spacesuit daily in the hope that her absent parents will return and
take her back to her real planet. While she waits for that
particular lunar window to open, she accompanies her friends -
frustrated musician Francis, the only open mic player in the town
and the laddish, volatile Fox - from bar to nightclub to the absurd
dangers and darkness of the forest.As the young residents of the
town lurch from one disaster to another, the story of Goregree
itself comes into focus - a sad, dreamlike, hostile place, plagued
with a mysterious bug infestation and haunted by the memories of a
oncepromising future. A cracked, distorted mirror held up to the
Western world's many abandoned, alienating towns.In the space of a
night, the people of Goregree will drink, dance, take bad
chemicals, have bad trips, have bad ideas, and do unthinkable
things.
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