The Overwhelming Urge
It is a world where men wake up with laser beams for eyes and wives play sadistic practical jokes. It is a world where body parts randomly fall off and fathers turn into antelopes. In this world, vampires and spontaneous combustions are a constant threat. THE OVERWHELMING URGE is a collection of...
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It is a world where men wake up with laser beams for eyes and wives play sadistic practical jokes. It is a world where body parts randomly fall off and fathers turn into antelopes. In this world, vampires and spontaneous combustions are a constant threat. THE OVERWHELMING URGE is a collection of bizarro flash fiction, containing ridiculous characters and absurd stories reminiscent of David Lynch and Franz Kafka.Written at knifepoint in a burning room, this book will make you think of a dirty comedian raving from Freud's couch.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781933929651 (1933929650)
Publish date: February 1st 2008
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Pages no: 140
Edition language: English
This is a collection of very brief fiction, 66 stories in 140 pages, by Bizarro author Andersen Prunty. I suspect most of these are earlier than his novels and they are clearly under the definition of what I consider Bizarro fiction, meaning they are weird, not at all plot-based and usually vague in...