Modern Gothic

Delve deep into the roadkill of the A6195. Discover magpie-cop duo, Esco & Orrison. And prepare to shed tears over Barry Higginbottom's 'driver tizer'. In this relic from the future, robot voices recite the exhibition catalogue of 'Laughter in a time of mass extinction', the final work of one-man art collective What About Me?

No man had made it, that we knew. Not time enough, for it was the work of one night, and not even, but a minute, maybe less. Soft thunder that woke most who heard it as muffled cannon fire or dynamite down a mineshaft in their dreams.

A mysterious hole appears in Consolation, which soon draws in prospectors, charlatans, and other poor misguided wretches from all over Zobesland. Then one day, an even stranger stranger appears.

Written, produced and performed by Neil Fitzgerald (all copyright)

Contact the writer; producer and performer for rights, etc: [email protected]

A ballad in the key of 80s movies à la John Hughes. That's it. That's the pitch.

All copyright: Neil Fitzgerald Contact the writer; producer and performer for rights, etc: [email protected]

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