Hunter returns to the LUST series after ruffling our feathers with all of them chickens. Now the CRABS are pinching. These hard-shell anti-poetry romps flips the sandcastles upside down and takes you not just to the beach, but into the mind of these collective crustaceans. With 400 poems about crabs, you could say Mr. Hunter is an omniscient on these exoskeleton critters.
Welcome to the darkest of comedies. Chet & Floyd vs. the Volume 1 is a tribute to the anti-hero. This lightning paced, ultra-violent novel will find and tickle the blackest part of your funny bone. The big death has brought the end of most of the life on earth. The planet is like the mortally wounded, limping along as it bleeds out. Every day is colder than the last. There is no food. The humans that were spared from death’s swath are now roaming the earth, starving and decadent. Cannibalism and Nihilism rule. This was the time of Chet and Floyd. Plunging across the apocalyptic landscape in their 1971 Volkswagen Super Beetle, Chet and Floyd navigate their way through this new world. Chet, who starts the novel with ten fingers but won’t keep them all by the end of the story, is obsessed with finding morality in an environment which is anything but. Floyd is his stoic voice of reason, which isn’t saying much in a world where there isn’t any reason at all.
In this America Social Security is depleted, broken and destroyed. The Social Security Reclamation Act is enacted to restore monies wasted for decades on the entitled elderly. Government assistance is terminated at age sixty-five. Personal assets are seized and citizenships are revoked, thereby changing their status to that of 'Pensioner'. In this America Pensioners are not protected by the government or the police. Pensioners become sexually exploited, 'bum'-fight syled gladiators and are hunted at will for the amusement of the young. Most of the elderly are dead within weeks, so Pensioner Samson had better get himself some street-smarts and ninja skills real quick. In this America growing old is some murderous shit.