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When electricity hangs in the air so thick the moon and stars fizzle and drown in a sea of light, the people living within it, breathing it in, can never be “normal.”
From disfigured mutants accidentally murdering god to a man falling madly in love with a blood-thirsty VCR, we promise you’ve never read anything as bizarre as this!
In these six tales, Pauley explores the lives of those living in the darkest corners of the world, those living electric:
GODDAMN ELECTRIC NIGHTS.
Contains the stories:
"Slime Night!" - Sebby & Nick were once inseparable, the kind of friends who couldn't do anything without the other. However, once they started high school, they had other things on their minds—girls. And wouldn't you know it, they both fell in love with the same one. Not that she even knew either of them existed... The tension finally comes to a head in a bowling alley arcade, when Nick challenges Seb to a pinball duel–winner takes all! Over-the-top, outrageous, and at times flat out disgusting–Slime Night takes you back to a time when hormones trumped rational thinking, and it’s perhaps the weirdest coming of age story you’ll ever have the (dis)pleasure of reading.
"Killing Teddy" - A slumlord discovers two of his tenants are competing in a dangerous reality game show that’s been taking a toll on his building. After repeatedly ignoring his requests, he busts into their apartment and is shocked to see the tenant has fully transitioned into a man-sized carpenter ant. Hoping to not be evicted from their home, they explain to their landlord just how the game works—one of them has been challenged to live a full life cycle of every creature on earth, and to speed things up, the other must come up with creative ways in which to kill him. After discovering how much they stand to win, he joins in on the fun!
"The Spiders of Honeyville" - A yellow cloud of poison pollutes the air in Honeyville. The entire town becomes infected, instantly turning into mindless drones. The government seals off the city, treating the diseased the only way they know how—by harvesting giant freak spiders, hoping they’ll suck the poison right out of their brains! Unfortunately for the townsfolk, things don’t work out as planned…
"Hypnagogia" - Two bumbling idiots accidentally kill God after a simple vacuuming gig goes horribly wrong.
"$5 Electric Suzie" - A boy finds a blood-thirsty VCR in a scrap heap, then becomes her familiar…and maybe a little something more.
"Spin Doctors Mixtape" - Edgar J. Head can't win. After a series of unfortunate events lead to his girlfriend's cat getting eaten, Eddie finds himself heartbroken and alone. He ventures out into the wild night, meeting some of the strangest people he's ever come across. Eventually he has the epiphany that anything that makes him happy in this dreary life is well worth fighting for... and that the Spin Doctors are the perfect band to convey this message. He quickly gets to work on what very well may be the most important creative project of his life: the Spin Doctors Mixtape. Pauley takes us back to the heart of the 90s in this strange love letter from a weirdo. A lot of fun, a lot of heart, a lot of Batman.
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