Flare and Falter
Description
How many ways can the world fall apart? A smug superhero belittles the very people he's supposed to save. An Aztec god escapes the sacking of his city to take refuge in modern-day Manchester. Rebels topple a despotic regime, much to the disappointment of the dictator's body double, and even the penguins decide to rise up against their human captors.
Welcome to the unforgettable worlds of Michael Conley: horrific, hilarious, and forever on the brink of collapse. Lives are turned upside-down by ducks, the alphabet attacks every country on the planet, and civil unrest breaks out when we realise that only half of us can see the kraken clinging to the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. Sly and silly, chaotic and carnivalesque, often poignant and always unpredictable, Conley's stories shred the thin veil that protects our familiar reality from an apocalypse of the bizarre.
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Content
- Anatidaephobia
- Marked
- When It Starts
- Krill Rations
- The God Quetzalcoatl Has Retired and Now Runs a Pub in South Manchester
- To Armour a Vehicle
- Body Double #3
- Toddler Ninety-Six
- Lifelike
- Internal Memo: The Ministry for Bees
- Dispatches From the Last Great War of Good vs. Evil
- Gentlemen of the Bedchamber
- Silence Is Golden
- Amok
- The People
- The Superhero Your Rotten City Deserved
- The President's Penis
- Here's Why You're Such a Shit Department Store Santa Claus
- Vertigo
- Happiness
- Security Detail
- Pinniped
- Red Velvet
- Rory's Difficult Year
- All the Little Yous Just Find Each Other
- Some Final Thoughts From Your Soon-to-be-Ex-Lover, the First-and-Last-Time Skydiver
- Speed Dating
- Coda
- As for the War
- Personal Chef
- Kraken
- Who Are International Moon Team?
- A Rock to Wind a Piece of String Around
- Questions, Some of Which Are About Cats
- The Wasp Man's Greatest Fear
