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Set to the music and lyrics and music of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of
the Moon, this is the story of Theodore the disenfranchised rabbit;
working tirelessly on the moon to dig a hole from one side to the
other to let the sun through; playing in a mundane rock band and
having sex rampantly but without much zest.
She that fights monsters might take care lest she become a monster
- Friedrich Nietzsche This is a story about Christine and the day
she grew a penis.
The Terror{blist} is an ironic and dark humoured short story that
examines the masculinization of idealism and the probable effect of
the contrary. In a well of depression, Gavin, quits his
telemarketing job and joins a group of radical idealists. In the
days leading to his act of terror, a typo has all news stations
emasculating the acts of his terror group. Thinking he will be
remembered forever as someone less than a man, Gavin ponders the
things that men do. "Real Men Wear Vests"
This is the tale of a polite and well-mannered boy named Alex who;
after being abducted by a pedophile, develops an incredible bond
with an angry and foul mouthed doll called The Gruff who teaches
young Alex how to find his voice. When Alex wakes bound in a wooden
coffin to manic cursing and abusing, he finds something he'd never
imagined having, a true friend. In the days that follow, a small
oddly tempered doll called The Gruff will teach Alex how to say no,
how to sharpen his claws and how to kill a man. And a triangle of
deception will leave Alex wondering who the real victim is. Based
on real events, this novel explores the philosophical theme of the
effect of the domestication of children through mannerly learning
and poses the premise that 'politeness is the discipline of abuse'.
A Rising Fall is the first book in a dystopian trilogy entitled
City: aliteraryconcerto. The story starts ten years after the
blackout as a group of humans struggling to fight off a conscious
famine, try to re-learn empathy to save humanity in an old
industrial assembly plant. In 3 days; feigned affection, deception
and a black heart will take them further into the repression of
their own fears in search of unconditional love. The City Concerto
through literary prose; answers one question: To what lengths would
a father go and what horrible wrongs would he do, to teach a god
how to love again? Following the theme of a concerto, City is
divided into three parts; A Rising Fall, Utopian Circus and I,
Cannibal. Each book is then divided into three pieces and with A
Rising Fall, each piece refers to a day; the three days leading to
the fall of their city. The trilogy illustrates the human
emancipation from three states of love; Eros, Philos and Agape as
each is torn apart under the guise of well intention as humanity;
now void of identity in the wake of a century of dehumanising
dependence and necessity upon industry and digital technology; has
separated itself from the labour of its existence, aborting empathy
and setting in place the death of mother nature. Yet, on the verge
of extinction; mankind presses on; towards salvation; towards the
city of light and sound; towards New Utopia.
The end of the world is nigh and only one man can stop the coming
apocalypse. Shane MacGowan has the ultimate weapon; the greatest
song ever written and to save the world, his mammy and Teresa he
just has to remember how it feckin goes.
This is the story of Joao, an uninspiring country boy who moves to
a slum in the city with his drunken, violent, preacher father; The
Bishop and falls for amiable prostitute named Charity. Like life,
the perfect drink should be bitter sweet and coffee is the
resonance of existence in that; like the perfect coffee, life has
many grains of bitter days; the type of days that might rot your
stomach if they are all that you have. But every now and then, one
has a few sweet moments that make the tough days easier to digest,
meaning one can take the learned lesson from life; the good and the
bad and then strengthen their resolve and return in the morn with
an eager thirst for more. All Joao ever wanted was to be of some
use. All he ever wanted was to belong. And far away from the
molesting lick of the sun, where his brothers and sisters toil upon
the arid earth, in a dank cafe in the very worst part of town, and
working as a barrista, Joao will himself, inside the sediment of a
city, at the bottom of a ceramic cup. And a minister, a chef, and a
whore, they will all taste him on their lips, long after he is
gone.
An unconventional take on unconditional love
**Warning: This book contains graphic philosophy** Through the
charred wreckage of one man's philosophy, an adventure into
conscious delusion and dark dystopian fantasy begins as the
survivors of The Nest find themselves on three paths where each
will endeavor to rein their conscious minds to grasp the philosophy
of existence and abate the shackles of conscious Famine as they
march onwards towards New Utopia. On one path, Marcos, having woken
naked and amnesic at the scorn of ancient women whose immortality
derives from the wearing of young girl's faces like decorative
dresses; is chased through a dense wilderness for the face that he
wears whilst drifting in and out of conscious Famine, giving a
glimpse into The City that was, one of obligation and Infant
Industries. On the second path, in The Kingdom of the Hound, Ruff
the dog is awoken to conscious debate, rationalizing and
philosophizing with an ostentatious small Chihuahua called The
Bitch Queen over the nature of unconditional love as he fights to
save the lives of his human friends from being gamed by savage
hounds and monolithic boars. While on a third path, The Woman will
unravel, through conscious delusion, the true extent of her
repressions and her loveless abandon as a young girl; Safrine,
through childish rhyme, is challenged by a creepy old man into a
game of coloured cubes to save her two companions from the effect
of The Famine.
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