United States

From the Pushcart-nominated author of "Szmonhfu", comes another grim tale of personal humiliation and social disease. "United States" was written in the late 1980's in the north of England when Goths ruled the world, parties were the only reason to go on drawing dole and this yet-to-be author clearly should have known better. The novel is split down the middle like a pickled brain. Part One: The Founding Fathers is an inexcusable effrontery, exploring contemporary attitudes towards personal space and the role of chemical enhancement on the group ethos; a desperate yearning for the way of old flesh.
Part Two: The Bill Of Rights is a probing interrogation dealing with physical simulations of personal identity in a future terrorised by biochemical liberty and blind to the travesty of human traffic; a begrudging acceptance of the global terror to come.