AJ Balkin
ASIN: B0067OR6U0
Publisher: Black & Blue Books
Pages: 70
Three stories, and a manifesto. The Fall is a psychological, political and surreal thriller. Ahmad is trapped in a society of bright lights, loud music and mandatory State-enforced celebration. It's as if the good times of the 70's disco met Nazi Germany. Our hero meets a strange man by chance at the marketplace who leads him on a path of discovery with dusty maps and stories of a time forgotten. In the end, there is only the Fall.The second story is a narrative time warp through one man's refusal of a sculpted life. We meet him as a bachelor in a spartan apartment, filled only with the sculptors gifted to him by his landlord. The story then flashes back and forth between different anomalies in his life, and wraps up in an alien confrontation. Nothing is ever as it seems.Our final story is a short reflection on work, laziness, alcohol, parks, dreams, succubi - and, conversely, youth ...