War Slut
by Carlton Mellick III
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Author: Carlton Mellick IIIEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-18
ISBN: 1933929537
Number of pages: 88
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
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Book Review: A band of soldiers take a last stand in a strange ice city
Summary: 5 Stars
In an expedition into the frozen wastelands of the north, a tired troop of soldiers are gathered to hunt down the one remaining enemy to the all-encompassing military - Draft Dodgers. Creeping further north, they come upon what seems to be a whole city under the ice: cars and televisions, bookcases and football stadiums. Above it all are ice skyscrapers, but the only occupants are cotton stuffed mannequins with porcelain doll faces.
The group is separated by enemy fire, scattered in attempting to discover the snipers until Hugh Jake (a soldier whose eyes constantly weep and suffers from narcolepsy) realizes it's the mannequins themselves that are attacking. Is this just a strange society, or is this what Draft Dodgers have become? And what's to become of the soldiers?
Mellick is a master of the bizarre tales. This short novella is certainly odd but closer to readability for many who haven't yet sampled the truly macabre avant-punk, bizarro genre. As Mellick himself explains in his introduction, "This isn't about realism. Realism isn't my style. This is about the absurb." Enjoy!
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