QUESTING BEASTS

by J.B. Aspinall

Four novellas about hapless hunters and elusive Two drinkers in a Scarborough bar consider the inexplicable dénouement of a love-affair forty years earlier. Masquerading as a detective-story, it is a poetic statement about love and an allegory of the relationship between artist and audience.OLD LOVE'S News of the death of Alison, last seen in Paris in 1968, takes Jeremy on a Hardyesque journey of nostalgia that ends surprisingly. A lament for the second half of the Twentieth Century by a despondent but unrepentant socialist.IMAGERY OF DAY George dreams about a woman who has no place in his waking he lost his chance of her on a bus eighteen years earlier. His search for Jenny toys with the concept of alternative existences but basically this is a naturalistic study of delusion.THE GIRL HE In the shambolic world of the future Precinct Frendlicop Kyriakos, investigating the deaths of two consumers of drug-induced fantasies at the Dream Palace, is compelled to undergo the perilous adventures himself to solve the case.

213 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 30, 2012