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"Carlton Mellick kicked my ass, and I have the scars to prove it. Or
should I say the scales? Mellick is an author who looks at the universe in fish-eyed wonder, but isn't afraid to throw
his readers to the sharks. Read Fishy-fleshed and his teeth will be lodged in your brain forever." - John Lawson, editor
of The Dream People and Raw Dog Screaming Press
"Fishy-fleshed
is one of those books that has such freedom of language, imagination, and ideas that once you begin reading it, you know you
are reading not only fine writing, but a work of genius."
-Bruce
Taylor, Kafka's Uncle.
Her warmth, a zombie shark's
tear, the smell of time travel, an Irish drinking song, ugliness world, an underdweller's smile, the dirty ones, Jesus
Christ's brain, the difference between Whyrie and her copy, an exploding head, and God whispering . . .
Fishy-fleshed is an illustrated collection of thought-logs from a
child-like man living in the cartoonish future world of Ocean City, so technologically advanced that everyone possesses the
ability to walk on water, cure diseases, clone food, and raise the dead . . . an entire civilization of Messiahs. When a team
of researchers travel back in time to the days of the Real Messiah, they discover the past is a lot different than they imagined.
It is an illogical flatland lacking in dimension and color, a sick-scape of crispy squid people wandering the desert for no
apparent reason. Part science-fiction parody, part nightmarish absurdism, Fishy-fleshed is likely to leave a green-gray taste
in your mouth.
This volume includes both the English
translation and the original Ywellish language text.
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