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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.
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.
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.
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