The Thomsky Fluke and Other Tales

by Jay Davis

Shocking and abrupt short fiction in a contemporary yet Kafaesque mode. These short stories present a sometimes grotesque yet glittering distortion of a uniquely perceived reality. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587900610
• ISBN13: 9781587900617
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Regent Press
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Human Detour:

For most, The Thomsky Fluke may read like a madman's diary from a terrible near future, or a twisted parallel Earth inhabiting the shadow of our own lineage of Human events. Most of Davis' shorts hinge on his unique brand of mild Orwellian science fiction, a brand of deliberate forging that thinly veils a pulsating supernatural horror. Usually beginning with the utterly mundane, events gradually find their way into a kind of Camus-esque absurdity, sprinkled with a lovecraftian acuteness to detail, and ending in a bizarre twist of happenstance. The unfolding Human drama usually proves to be anything but that, "Human" - as we understand it. Recommended companion to "Exile and the Kingdom"