The Damage Patrol Quartet

By Michael D. Smith

Four surreal stories with bizarre underpinnings and uncanny twists. "Roadblock" features a feckless architectural school graduate who falls in with a sixteen-year-old's dubious trucking venture to the rural south, only to confront mystical construction strikers.

In "Randy and Laura," drug-addled Randy bemoans his fate as a slave employee in New Fascist Australia, working a gas station nightshift with Laura, who longs to escape both his insane delusions and a trauma Randy isn't equipped to understand.

"Perpetual Starlit Night" explores an archeologist's arrival on a tiny artificial gravity platform in deep space to give a scholarly lecture to barbarian colonists who declare her a criminal like themselves.

Finally, "Damage Patrol" describes how the Conscious Reach Corporation proposes to cure an entire city's mental illness, one tormented soul at a time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09NRJT2BM
• ISBN13: 9798786921992
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"