The Kingdom of Hell is Inside You

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The calory powered man lays in bed with his husband, neither of them sleeping. Light has soaked into their food and illuminated their brain vessels. The only solution is to go a step beyond vegan, removing death from their diets. It just so happens that the latest advancement in cyberware provides a solution. He is fitted with solar panel scales, his stomach removed, so that like a battery, he dies whenever the power bar hits zero and is resurrected when the morning caresses his sharp exterior. Having loosened his tethers to reality, he also extends the reach of living nightmare and reveals The Kingdom of Hell inside him.

Appearing for the first time in this collection, “The Solar Powered Man Goes to Bed” exposes the horror beneath the skin, even beyond the bone and gristle. “Running the Mind (Emulation)” explores the hatred a biomedical engineer feels towards his clients as he maps their brain into cyberspace. “A Singular Death” depicts lightspeed used for self-annihilation rather than travel and “I Carried a Brain Under my Arm,” the struggle for existence in a simulated universe. “The Kingdom of Hell is Inside You,” which lends its name to this collection, shaves closest to the present day. In the midst of a dystopian housing crisis, in which privacy is expensive, its narrator offers an insidious alternative… 

“Eyes recalibrated, receptors drunk, polyglot as single interpreter,

nobody leaves and the sky falls lovingly.”