Sample chapters from an unpublished book by Jerry Stratton
Graveyard is about the profound importance of staying gone when you run away from home. Arthur’s dad leaves him in a shopping mall. Arthur runs after him but since his dad is in a car and Arthur isn’t, Arthur ends up lost in the Shopping Cart Graveyard. He befriends all of the shopping carts, except maybe K-Marx the Communist Cart. Together with Fisher, a plastic shopping cart, and Voniece, a paraplegic who is not a shopping cart but rides in one, he saves the earth from an invasion of alien Llamas.
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This book is a work of truth. Only the names have been changed, for names give power to your enemies. Any resemblance to actual events, or places, or persons both living and dead, means it probably happened to you. | ||||
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Copyright © 2000 Jerry Stratton |
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We’ve been outracing our mythology for three centuries, but it is a shadow we cannot replace. We've been crying bloody tears at the lack of it, frantically trying to reattach it with whatever comes to hand. But in our frenzy we are never asked the right question until too late: “Man, why are you crying?” Not asking, we choose our Lord, but we never decide upon Him. We are fickle subjects, and we choose a fickle God. --FlameWar: The Passion of the Electric Messiah |