The story begins in the thirteenth of my thirteen harsh and bitter years of toil as an indentured servant in the household of a cruel, demanding master.
I would arise every day two hours before the sun. My first action would be to retrieve my bloodstained, battered notebook from its hiding place. Then, in the light of a spluttering, stuttering candle, with the stub of a pencil I had found in the fields, I would write down what I remembered of any dreams of the previous night. I found it “therapeutic” as one says these peculiar days.
On one particular day, one particularly dark and frozen morning, I began to write the story of a magic painting that was a doorway, a portal. Anyone who looked into the Painting was miraculously transported to another place, another world. And everyone returned from the world of the Painting, miraculously healed of all wounds: physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, even financial!
But before I could finish writing the story of the Magic Painting, I was summonsed to my duties, which were many, unvarying, heavy and onerous. Much later, I crawled onto my thin and threadbare mattress in the corner of the dark and tiny cell assigned me by my keepers.
There, I opened my notebook and carefully turned from page to ...
Falling asleep may be the last thing you do. Ever.
This so-called "book" will chew you up, spit you out, and leave you twitching and frothing on the carpet. More than 60 dark and feculent fictions (read ‘em and weep) copiously illustrated by over 20 grotesque images you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. Immature content. Adults maybe.
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