The Pelican School of Bird and Other Stories - E-book - ePub

The Pelican School of Bird is a tale of unscrupulous exploitation, of exotic animals cruel, fierce and beatific, of hallucinogenic happenings and magnificent myths, of innocence and guilt, of dreams turned sour and wings grown tired, but most of all it is a story of the unshakeable bond of friendship. Fearless Faria Gets Sucked Down The Plughole And Meets The Monsters From Hell pitches a serene and quietly self-confident girl into a nightmare world of absurd terrors and crippling red tape.
A world where kindness is scant and the laws of physics are most definitely not respected. Our heroine will take all in her stride. The Weekend is a modern French horror story where all is most definitely crooked as the protagonist stumbles and screams from one inexplicable bad trip to another. The King of Colours is an homage to our beautiful universe, a tale of at least one genius, yet a warning against the imprudence of over-ambition, as the anti-hero of the piece falls headlong into traps already inhabited with the writhing, imprisoned bodies and lost souls of Macbeth and Professor Victor Frankenstein.
Escape to Vinyl is the story of what happens when a fairly ordinary man, seemingly oppressed by the prevailing dystopia, finds refuge in the Doctors of Madness album, Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms. Sprinting breathlessly through chaos, love, absurdity, depression, deprivation, camaraderie and horror to evade weird-torsoed pursuers, the protagonist of the piece realises that 'this a tale of malevolence, but I trust the storyteller.'