Brian E. Drake's poems have previously appeared in The Formalist, The Observer, Poetry Break, Plains Poetry Journal, Deviance, Black Bear Review, Starsong, The Classical Outlook, Gas, Dark Alley, Night Mountains, Being, Night Roses, Columbia Review, Frugal Chariot, Our Pagan Times, and Riverside Quarterly, and have received various awards. He is the author of A Night Garden and Other Stories, and the novels A Constant Noise, Under Control, and Don Juan in Paris.

What do you do when your safe and successful life suddenly seems meaningless and dismal? Well, don't do what Bill does. Fed up with the perfect career, the perfect girlfriend, the perfect apartment, the perfect therapist, he wanders into the streets of New York City one rainy night, only to find himself swept up in a crazy world he never knew existed, full of artsy perverts, casual crime, psychics, street performers, UFO hippie cults, industrial espionage, and gleeful gender benders, where nothing is what it seems and staying sane isn't anywhere near as important as staying alive until dawn. Under Control is a laugh-a-line comedy-thriller that grabs you by the funny bone and doesn't let you go till the final page.

Brian E. Drake's poems have previously appeared in The Formalist, The Observer, Poetry Break, Plains Poetry Journal, Deviance, Black Bear Review, Starsong, The Classical Outlook, Gas, Dark Alley, Night Mountains, Being, Night Roses, Columbia Review, Frugal Chariot, Our Pagan Times, and Riverside Quarterly, and have received various awards. He is the author of A Night Garden and Other Stories, and the novels A Constant Noise, Under Control, and Don Juan in Paris.

Nestled between Italy, Austria, and Slovenia lie two tiny republics usually forgotten by the modern world. In the happy, peaceful country of Serenno, where the weather is always pleasing and people mind their own business, a sex scandal threatens to rock the political balance of power. Meanwhile, provincial tax commissioner Ugo Onesti suffers a personal scandal of his own. The President of Serenno seizes upon this incident to distract the public and turns Onesti into a hero. When Onesti decides to run for office himself, and as a Green Party candidate, every step the President takes to defuse this new disaster leads to further crises in a seemingly inevitable drift towards fascism and war. With a cast of characters drawn from the entire political spectrum, as well as those who view politics as only an unavoidable annoyance, A Constant Noise is a fast-paced political farce exposing the hilarity behind our sacred cows.