A Carribean woman loves a Seattle sculptor. Their romance should end with slurred Daquiri kisses. But there's this little problem. Someone else wants her- the guy in the aqua Thunderbird. The color of his ride clues her who's driving. Her first lover. Someone related. Ron Dakron's novel Newt delves into incest, racism, ecstatic art and the true evil of the color aqua. Using techniques of cubism and parallel time, Newt evokes doomed love through a terse, poetic prose.

Newt

Literature & Fiction

Dakron, Ron

United States

Black Heron Press

A young geneticist perfects a medical serum made from both human and shark DNA. In her hurry and ambition, she skips biotech protocol and tries the serum on herself. But a mistake has been made - instead of shooting u a fraction of shark DNA, she's popped the entire hammerhead genetic code. Oops. Hammers is a comic novel about people turning into sharks. Set in a modern biotech city, it follows five characters as they mutate and fight for dominance, sex, and a reliable source of fresh squid. Hammers is a classic transformation tale in the genre of Frankenstein.

Hammers

Mantids is an update on the world's oldest novel--Petronius's Satyricon--with a twist. In Satyricon, the hero can't get an erection; in Mantids, the narrator can't get rid of one. Combine his Viagra overdose with an invasion by mutant female praying mantises and a suzzed-out, speed-tweaker Astoria, Oregon locale; add biting comedy and a warrior heroine and stir into a B-movie plot stew and you have a classic Dakron novel, chock full of sardonic prose and more fun than a barrel of junkies.

Mantids

Humor & Satire

Hello Devilfish! is a first-person (or first-fish) account of a giant blue Japanese movie monster stingray’s attack on contemporary Tokyo and his tragic morph into human form. Using elements of Japanese shock-pop and the infamous Hello Kitty meme, the story is told in comic narrative from the stingray’s point of view as he gleefully creams Tokyo into rubble. The stingray is soon pursued by Squidra, a love-struck giant squid. She demands love; he refuses. In an epic waterfront battle, she traps him in a human-growth hormone bath that changes him into a puny human a reverse metamorphosis monster to man. Refusing to accept his humanity, the stingray acts like his former giant self while trying to find food, shelter, romance and avoid the destructive rampage of his stalker squid love interest. Hello Devilfish! is told in a readable, comic narrative occasionally spiced with Manglish words. Funny and very readable, underneath the outlandish plot is a truly fresh critique of contemporary culture and mainstream literature.

Hello Devilfish!

Three Rooms Press

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Newt

Hammers

Mantids

Hello Devilfish!