Should a bullying victim use his newfound super powers to lash out at his persecutors or to help his fellow man? What can a nerdy honor student learn from time spent in the video game world? Can an alien hybrid stranded on Earth discover where he is from? How will everybody’s favorite mutant worm super heroes change when they become intergalactic television stars? Do human beings truly need moral guidance from a higher being? What about robots?
And what the heck is a Dookiemon?
All of these questions will be explored and answered to the complete satisfaction of everyone in the universe in Venting Delirium, the second collection of sci-fi stories from Chad Descoteaux. Throw in a few poems about coping with the harsher aspects of human life and you have the thrilling saga of the writer’s quest to develop maturity and, consequently, good coping skills.
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FACT: Most of the fairy tales and nursery rhymes that we were told as children have been toned down over the years from their original (and more disturbing) versions.
Violent stories about cross-dressing wolves gobbling up grandmothers and getting sliced open by brave woodsmen were sanitized. (He hid her in the closet.) And stories where the handsome prince marries the beautiful princess he just met (because he found her shoe) all just seem like some horrible reality TV show in this day and age.
Once Upon A Crime Syndicate is a quirky, romantic comedy that involves re-imagined versions of our favorite fairytale characters. When a mafia kingpin brings his wooden puppet to life to carry on his empire, life couldn’t be better for either of them. But when the puppet falls in love with a beautiful singer, he starts to question his calling in life. His search for answers takes him on a whirlwind journey from the seedy ghettos of Story Town to the slave labor camp known as Never Land.
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From the political manipulation of the world’s most advanced cybernetic life form, to a frontal assault on the human world by overgrown insects, to the teenaged angst of a young extraterrestrial — the biting satire of Chad Descoteaux’s imagination ranges from one side of OUR reality to the far side of YOURS, in such sci-fi stories as, “Hard Drive Crash,” “The Vegan Wars,” “Third Revolution,” “Exoskeleton” and “Alien Boy.” Throw in a few poems about the most confusing times in a young person’s life and you have the most thrilling and relatable saga of growing pains that has ever emerged from the human mind.
