In this knife-edged collection of stories, Brad Allen Ashlock invites us to the surprisingly dangerous and strange underbelly of Australian suburbia as captured through his unflinching and satyrical lens. The voices of the characters--from retired government workers, welders, gangsters, terrifying psychopaths, and bored sex-crazed corporate executives--blend together seamlessly into a choir highlighting a dark world hidden just beneath the surface of the everyday. Characters from one story pass by those in the next. They walk the same parkland paths. Drive down the same highways. Yet are always seperate, lost in their own situations and schemes. Connected and disconnected. These entangled tales are cracked mirrors we can hold up to view our own society--sometimes reacting with shock and horror, and sometimes with bittersweet laughter.
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