Mr. Suicide

by Nicole Cushing

Overview

Like everyone else in the world, you've wanted to do things people say you shouldn't do.

How many times in your life have you wanted to slap someone? Really, literally strike them? You can't even begin to count the times. Hundreds. Thousands. You're not exaggerating. You're not engaging in... whatchamacallit? Hyperbole? You're not engaging in hyperbole.

Maybe the impulse flashed through your brain for only a moment, like lightning, when someone tried to skip ahead of you in line at the cafeteria. Hell, at more than one point in your life you've wanted to kill someone; really, literally kill someone. That's not just an expression. Not hyperbole. Then it was gone and replaced by the civilized thought: You can't do that. Not out in public.

But you've had the thought...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939905116
Publisher:	Word Horde
Publication date:	07/15/2015
Pages:	228
Sales rank:	276,273
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

Editorial Reviews

05/11/2015
Cushing’s debut, a work of brutal and extreme horror, follows an unnamed protagonist as he grows from a bullied, isolated teen to a vicious and uncontrollable outsider. Readers, tied to the protagonist through the second-person perspective, watch as his violent tendencies first develop and are then pointed inward, primarily through the influence of a voice called Mr. Suicide. As he grows up, the protagonist brutalizes himself and others, most notably his mother and other women. His brother introduces him to Perfect Monsters, an explicit magazine of the taboo and grotesque, and soon Perfect Monsters has its own voice in the protagonist’s head. Pulling the strings is a deity called the Great Dark Mouth, who can give his chosen one the gift of being unmade. The perspective creates more antipathy than empathy, and the protagonist’s actions become increasingly inscrutable once he turns 18 and leaves home. While the story is told with creative attention to detail, its disturbingly graphic content, paired with slowly building momentum, will limit its audience. (July)

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