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The inner voice is never quiet. It screams and rages, whispers and lulls, exposes us to ourselves in a frenzied communication that leaves us unanswered and shaken. And still we go back to listen – a moth to a flame – to find the words reforming into a poetry of self, of what makes us human.
Here, the unique voice of Shane Douglas Keene is revealed, a powerful debut collection of dark beauty whose flame will draw the reader in and not let go. For lovers of poetry searching for the heartbeat of life.
Moth Frenzy releases in ebook and paperback on January 24, 2024
You can preorder the ebook now
Like evolution itself, nothing about the story in these pages was born of a plan. It’s a collection of “What ifs.” The authors didn’t discuss the story in advance, they simply performed it.
The penultimate premise?
What if the biblical progenitors of humanity were bent on its eventual destruction?
The answer is here between these covers, in the form of a heavy-metal armageddon meltdown fueled by rage, passion, firepower, and hellfire. This is epic poetry like you’ve never read before—irreverent, gruesome, horrifying, heartrending. It will make you think, and it will clarify the meaning of the phrase:
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
Why?
People grow uneasy without reasons, without an answer to every question. We demand it. We crave it. It is an utterly human curse.
“He cut off their heads and baked them with pumpkin spice…”
Why?
“He chopped the old man to bits and hid the remains under the floorboards…”
Why?
Wonder and wander together through the pages of Morbidologies, which collects thirteen answers to such questions-twelve stories and one poem-from some of today’s hottest authors. But be wary. Some questions have answers you won’t like.
Some answers become morbidologies, for frequently there is no good reason “why.”
There is only this dark world, calling us to look closer and closer, until we realize the only true answer is simply because.