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Everything Must Go
Everything Must Go | La JohnJoseph
3 posts | 1 read
Fiction. LGBT Studies. In a future- queer world of magically changing locations, perversely transformed historical figures and oodles of spatter-violence, an intersexual teen mother describes her road trip with a cast of surreal travel buddies. The goal of her final destination: unleashing the Apocalypse. Riding in a banana-yellow convertible with our hero/ine is the strangely mature Baby, able to chat while still in the womb; as well as two Catholic Missionaries with a violent streak, a Charlie Chaplin who communicates only with cue cards, and Candy Bar, a winsome club kid who ends up fixing the face of Valentino's corpse at his funeral. Follow our hero/ine through a dreamlike jungle of orgies and terrorist explosions, described in language as word-rich and surreal as a Ronald Firbank novel. You'll howl with laughter the whole time and have nightmares about it long after you come to the breathlessly ridiculous final page.
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Bertha_Mason
Everything Must Go | La JohnJoseph

"Raindrops the size of beetles started to fall, hitting the ground with an audacious contempt."

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Bertha_Mason
Everything Must Go | La JohnJoseph

"Scratch that. Explain nothing. He was there and it didn't matter how. (If you go about looking for sense, asking for logic, and putting your faith in reason, then you are asking for trouble and you will deserve it when two big thugs named Senseless Violence and Why God Why? drag you down an alley and beat you up)."

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Bertha_Mason
Everything Must Go | La JohnJoseph

"Father entered the room, saw me with the gun and stopped cold in his tracks. "Ah, baby, my angel, you're not going to shoot your old Dada, are you? You wouldn't hurt your old Pa, would you? I was just playing. You're not gonna shoot me in the balls, letting me bleed to death slowly while you watch, before you turn the gun on yourself and your unborn child, are you?" My father was getting a hard-on."