Mel C. Thompson

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Diary of A Suburban Zombie (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Many of these stories are perfect reading for Halloween, but they are also good genre-fits for goths, punks, or those who like the moderate side of horror. The work contains an assortment of vampire bats, angry pumpkins, insatiable zombies, whimsical gods and ill-natured UFOs. These short stories cover the range of paranormal and Halloween-oriented lore. There are mailbox ghosts, unemployed movie monsters and deranged poets taunting the world. The book's evolution has been continual. It first started out as a short pamplet for Halloween poetry readings in the Bay Area; but then, as time went on, more and more stories were added, some that verged on being adult themed. Hence this book has been moved to the adult category (just as a precaution). The stories range from truly infantile to broadly philosophical to somewhat erotic. None of the works are r-rated or x-rated, but some are more suitable for young adults than others, though, in today's world, the whole thing might get a g-rating anyhow. The book is perfect to bring to Halloween parties as most of the stories were designed to be read aloud at spoken-word readings in under five or six minutes, some are as short as two minutes long. For a voracious reader, the whole thing would take less than an hour to read. (But recently, some longer stories have been added, some up to ten pages; and some of the later works verge on social commentary; and there are overtly anti-PC messages toward the end.) In print format, the work is over a hundred pages now. Many of the ancient horror-creatures in this book are updated to a modern environment with some of the monsters even having cell phones and jobs to attend to. And while many of the musings are tame compared to violent Hollywood horror flicks, there is still enough blood and violence to placate the restless reader. As the author is more known for his philosophy works than his genre work, the characters do end up musing about the meaning of life and worry about the direction their lives are taking (however, as with real life, most end up failing to arrive at any firm conclusion). Note: Most of the works in this book originally appeared in poetry form, and this is still the case with the paperback version of the book. The Smashwords version you see here was rewritten entirely for a prose-oriented audience and some of the plots were changed once the strictures of verses were put aside for this special edition.

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Autor

Mel C. Thompson is a retired wage slave who survived by working through temp agencies and guard agencies. Unable to survive in the real world of full-time, permanent work, he migrated from building to building, going wherever his agencies sent him, doing any type of work he could feign competency in and staying as long as those fragile arrangements could last. He somehow managed to get a B.A in Philosophy from Cal-State Fullerton in spite of his learning disorders and health problems. Unable to sustain family life due to depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, lack of transportation and lack of income, he lives alone in low-income housing and wanders around California on buses and trains. He began writing at the age of 14 and continues till the current day. (He turns 64 in June of 2023). In his early years he wrote pathetic love poetry until, in his thirties, he was engulfed by cynicism and fell in with a group of largely antisocial poets who wrote about the underground life of drugs, sex, alcohol, poverty, prostitution, heresy, isolation and alienation. In his fortes he turned to prose and began to write religious fiction with an emphasis on the comedic aspect of theology and philosophy. He now writes short novels focusing on the attempt to find meaning in a economic world beset with money laundering, unethical marketing, contraband smuggling, human trafficking, patent trolling, corrupt contracting and every manner of spiritual and psychological desperation and degradation. When he is not writing, he wanders from hospital to medical clinic to surgical room attempting to sustain what little health he has left after a lifetime of complications resulting from birth defects and genetic problems. When he is able, he engages in such hobbies as reading, walking, yoga and meditation; and whenever there is any money left over from his healthcare-related quests, he goes to wine tastings and searches for foodie-related bargains. Before the pandemic, he spent many years gaming various travel-points systems and wrangled many free trips to Europe. He is divorced and has no children, no pets, no real estate, no stocks nor any other assets beyond the $550 in his savings account. His career peaked in the early 2000s when he did comedy gags for a radio station and had about 10,000 listeners per week. However, currently, he may have as few as five active readers on any given day. He no longer has the stamina to promote his work and only finds new readers through ran...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mel C. Thompson
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463505359
• Artikelnr.: 69870217