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A Chemical Fire
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In just one night, the world is taken by fire.
The story unfolds through the eyes of John Cotard, a science teacher who rapidly drugs his life away after a fateful car accident turns him onto prescription painkillers. He allows first his job then his marriage to crumble, doing nothing to stop it, lost in a haze of chemicals.
When a mysterious fire sweeps through the land, wiping out human-kind and leaving behind zombie-like burn victims, he carries on by breaking into houses to steal drugs. For John, the end of the world actually seems to make sense- it's the next logical step in his self-destruction.
One-by-one he meets the few remaining survivors, including a woman starving herself thin, a combat-obsessed survivalist and a dangerous face from the past. As the group travels across the country to seek safety they face not only the dangers of the dead world around them but of each other, discovering the strange connections they share along the way.
The debut novel from Brian Martinez, A Chemical Fire is a minimalist, noir vision of the apocalypse.
Here's what people are saying on Goodreads:
"I loved this book almost instantly." - Kathryn
"I've read a lot of zombie/apocalyptic/dystopian fiction and I have to say this one was right up there with 'Day by Day Armageddon' by J.L. Bourne, one of my favorites." - Nicole
"I read this book in about a day and a half, a ripping good read." - Nancy
"Truly a phenomenal book for the apocalyptic enthusiast." - Anthony
"While some of the situations are very graphic and disturbing, I just had to know what came next. And it wasn't what I thought either!" - Stephanie
Serial: The Mountain and The City
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Witness a first-person view of a changed world.
A solitary survivor hides in a mountain above the city, living in a trailer with the door and windows duct-taped shut. Outside, the air is poisoned with a virulent disease that has killed off most humans. Those who lived have become something else. Something that hunts and kills. Survival in this new world comes down to two, simple rules: stay quiet and protect the air. It's an obsessive and regimented life, but one day a visitor comes up the mountain that threatens everything.
Part I of a series, The Mountain and The City is an attempt to bring the classic serials into modern times. The first part is free and the rest are 99 cents.
The Mountain and The City, Part II
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The post-apocalyptic action continues.
When Part I ended, the fate of the unnamed survivor and an unlikely companion was uncertain. Now, learn what happens in Part II. Will they escape? And if so, where will they seek safety?
The Mountain and The City, Part III
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Picking up where Part II left off, the unnamed survivor is in more trouble than ever before. Separated from Child and made prisoner by the people living in the military base, her only thoughts are of escape.
De-Partment
“Welcome to the Parts Department of the great city of Smoke.”
These words greet Tuxxel on his first day at the warehouse, a building so massive the ceiling can't be seen. Yet what follows is anything but welcoming. An Exterminator in the city of Smoke, he finds himself leading a life of violence and subservience. Picked on and abused by his supervisor he has little choice but to do the dirty work Smoke demands of him. As the days pass, and he learns of his city's horrific treatment of its citizens, he finds it more and more difficult to listen to the orders given to him. He must do what feels right. But disobedience has its consequences.
De-Partment is a dystopian novella about the struggle to maintain one's sense of self, set in a world both recognizable and entirely foreign.
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These words greet Tuxxel on his first day at the warehouse, a building so massive the ceiling can't be seen. Yet what follows is anything but welcoming. An Exterminator in the city of Smoke, he finds himself leading a life of violence and subservience. Picked on and abused by his supervisor he has little choice but to do the dirty work Smoke demands of him. As the days pass, and he learns of his city's horrific treatment of its citizens, he finds it more and more difficult to listen to the orders given to him. He must do what feels right. But disobedience has its consequences.
De-Partment is a dystopian novella about the struggle to maintain one's sense of self, set in a world both recognizable and entirely foreign.
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Kissing You is Like Trying to Punch a Ghost
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A young man living on the fringe takes a job he never should have touched and ends up in a spiraling world of robots, life-sabotage and scientific intrigue.
Christopher is an odd-job man, making a living by doing the chores no one else wants to. He doesn't drive and he just may have a crush on the sword-swallower girl who performs down on the boardwalk.
When he agrees to be the test subject for an experimental drug named ReQular, a transdermal patch with unknown effects, things begin to change. Between reporting to the three scientists who lead the research, he becomes wrapped up in the lives of various people- Eddie, a man who lives on the street, Jeanie, a spoiled rich daughter, even the Sword Girl, who regards him as a stalker as she draws him close then pushes him away. Most dangerously, he becomes obsessed with destroying the life of a random man he passes on the street, for reasons even he himself can't be sure of.
Through stranger and stranger turns, Christopher gets wrapped up in a world of questions: what is ReQular, who are the mysterious Murphy Group, and who can he trust?
Here's what people are saying on Goodreads:
"A fun surreal story. Nothing is ever what it seems." - David
"Highly recommended for people who enjoy surreal and trippy books." - Kathryn
Through stranger and stranger turns, Christopher gets wrapped up in a world of questions: what is ReQular, who are the mysterious Murphy Group, and who can he trust?
Here's what people are saying on Goodreads:
"A fun surreal story. Nothing is ever what it seems." - David
"Highly recommended for people who enjoy surreal and trippy books." - Kathryn
Short Story: A Good Clean, A Harsh Clean
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A man walks into a bar, his hands smelling of bleach. All he wants is a drink and an alibi, but what he gets is an encounter with a loud, old man. As they talk he realizes they share a very personal and very dangerous link.
A free short story for fans of Dark, edgy and Noir fiction.