Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Unpublished sequel to Sawdust Caesar and Enlightenment and the Death of Michael Mouse

Yeh, there's a third in the series, but would you believe it, the publisher thinks it 'too dark' and 'not a true story'. Well it may be dark, but it's definitely true. I'll give you a quick rundown on it:

Tommy Spitz gets back from his overland to India gig, meets the love of his life, Nelly, and moves with her and their new baby to a derelict cottage in Wales where they meet up with a whole new bunch of freak arrivals to the area intent on living a life of self-sufficiency away from the weirdos running society. The sad thing is, that wherever you go, there are always weirdos - 'straights' who need to fuck up the lives of other people... (remind me to tell you about the latest batch who've come to visit us here in France)... and one of these is a neighbouring farmer, Elgan, who not only kills Tommy's goat and poisons his dog, but kills a dear friend of Tommy's by setting fire to his caravan while he's asleep, stoned, inside. Tommy later learns that this piece of shit, Elgan, may have been responsible for the torching and death of another local Bohemian, so he sets out intent on retribution which he achieves by spiking Elgan with strong acid and forcing him to drive home minus his brakes.
But from there on, things go rapidly downhill among the freak community as drugs are increasingly consumed and work on the land is avoided. Relationships founder and the viability of a dream life becomes increasingly precarious. And by now penniless and with another child, Tommy and Nelly are forced to live on the road with the gypsies, the only people prepared to befriend such social outcasts.

If you want to read it in its entirety, it's called BRDLIK'S WATCH, and you'll have to contact me. Unless of course you happen to be or know of a publisher who's prepared to print something a little out of the ordinary, ha-fuckin'-ha.

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