Chizine:
Toronto: 2016
First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New,
368 pp.
Cover artwork by: Erik Mohr

Yes, new genre here: Literary/punk/horror. Nice. I read the excerpt on the back cover. Intriguing. That sent me to a couple random pages where I was intrigued once again. Then I read the first page. Guess what? Here, have a look for yourself: “Youth of today don't know fuckall of history. They’re just swinging through the bank vaults on liana vines, setting bonfires, throwing shurikens at hogs. Born here and talking like the yuppies came to us. Like humped in overnight cross the freeway with brain sludge mustaches and the air all mergency broadcasts. Fact is yuppies built this town. Their money brought in mowers for the jungle, insta freeway mix to stop the rivers. We’re the mutants here. We’re the mutants here, and it s our crew s got the crazy story. . . . Punks on acid keep on yelling past the bamboo fence, yelling stupid revelations. Maybe all the corpses in Kaliforonia did wake up once, but that s history, and no one cares enough to care. You’ve got this sweet bedroom overlooking the radioactive swamp, it s one short suspension bridge to the spam factory, and kids are calling Meatheads the best band in the world. Still. You miss the days when nobody came to your shows, nobody was feeding you the innerest secret mysteries of Lost Angeles, and they hadn't formed a single death cult in your honor. Lately it’s all last-minute brain transplants, telepathic silkscreen ink and tripping by accident into electrostatic ghost vortexes. It’s like drinking palm wine solves nothing anymore, and you can barely remember when the way of the samurai just meant chopping shit up with swords. . . .” #58195

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