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The Apocalypse of Peter
It’s the end of the world as you never knew it.
Seminary student Peter Barnes and his senior friend, Harvey Connor didn’t expect the last days to include neon meteor showers, unexplainable mutated creatures, or that they’d be housing an all-girl rock band. Thinking they must be the last people on Earth, Peter’s understanding of all he had been taught becomes rapidly overthrown…especially when a young, ghost-like figure calls him and an offbeat army on a mission to go up against a most unusual foe. Peter’s faith is thrown through the ringer as he gets closer to discovering just what it is that has turned the planet into a festering eye-sore of theological chaos.
Seminary student Peter Barnes and his senior friend, Harvey Connor didn’t expect the last days to include neon meteor showers, unexplainable mutated creatures, or that they’d be housing an all-girl rock band. Thinking they must be the last people on Earth, Peter’s understanding of all he had been taught becomes rapidly overthrown…especially when a young, ghost-like figure calls him and an offbeat army on a mission to go up against a most unusual foe. Peter’s faith is thrown through the ringer as he gets closer to discovering just what it is that has turned the planet into a festering eye-sore of theological chaos.
68 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 30, 2012
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June 6, 2017
If the end of the world came like this one day...Now wouldn't that be something.
Great Read!
Great Read!
June 24, 2012
End of the world stories are written every day. I've written a few myself, even, but chances are you've never read an end of the world story like this. Nick Cato has one twisted imagination and he delivers 100% in this novella. Seminary student Peter Barnes wakes up one day to find out strange yellow orbs have fallen from the sky and some strange things start to happen. There's strange creatures lurking about Staten Island and fairly quickly it seems that Peter is one of the few survivors left after the mutated creatures invade his town and feast on those unlucky enough to have been caught out in the open. Nick Cato infuses the story with some quirky humor that had me laughing out loud in parts. There's even an all girl rock band thrown into the mix and that story line didn't go the direction I thought it might. Near the end of the book, Cato switches gears and goes full steam ahead, what started out like a typcial end of the world (possible alien invasion) piece transforms into one of the wildest, weirdest, and enjoyable takes on the end of the world. Chances are you'll never look at plastic army men in the same way again...or Granny either.
Overall, I really enjoyed this adventure, though I wish Cato could've possibly explored more in depth how Peter dealt with the religious ramifications of having his faith tested, but that's a very small qualm. The finale definitely delievers on what's promised on the cover "It's the end of the world as you never knew it", yes, and does Cato deliever nicely. It does feel like Cato may have more to tell about Barnes's adventure as the tale ends on a open-ended note, but ties up nicely.
Get this one, it's well written, intriguing as hell, and unlike most fiction (in this genre) I've read in quite awhile.
R. Thomas Riley
Overall, I really enjoyed this adventure, though I wish Cato could've possibly explored more in depth how Peter dealt with the religious ramifications of having his faith tested, but that's a very small qualm. The finale definitely delievers on what's promised on the cover "It's the end of the world as you never knew it", yes, and does Cato deliever nicely. It does feel like Cato may have more to tell about Barnes's adventure as the tale ends on a open-ended note, but ties up nicely.
Get this one, it's well written, intriguing as hell, and unlike most fiction (in this genre) I've read in quite awhile.
R. Thomas Riley
August 12, 2012
What the actual f-- Um ...heh? Bizarre, fast-paced (I wanted it to slow down at times, but then, so would've Peter!), and full of vivid wackiness. Loved it!
August 14, 2012
One Sunday morning large yellow orbs fall from the sky and splash across the ground, cars, homes, as our hero watches. Then, almost everyone in New York City (and we assume the world), bend and contort and are swallowed up by the yellow stains. With men in pontiff hats gaurding bridges, girl bands, ghost children and... well, things become really, really weird. This is a fun, fast-paced story which leads to a climax that might trigger LSD flashbacks for years to come, even if you've never touched drugs in your life. If you are a fan of Bizarro fiction, you need to add this novella to your collection. If you like your stories of the more normal variety, run away as fast as you can.... :-)
September 2, 2012
Loved it! I felt like a was reading an old Stephen King short story. Also loved the Staten Island references...
November 25, 2012
Great book first one from Nick Cato I read will def be reading more! Some truly off the wall stuff which is a break from the same old retold stories
November 30, 2012
Great writing by a great Writer. Can't wait for the next one.
March 1, 2016
Awesome book! Utterly insane!
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