The Devil's Children

by Richard Hennerley

What would happen if a world's entire ruling class was made up of psychopaths?
Welcome to the world of Anywhere, where you'll meet the Devil's Children...
Welcome to a world where greed is king and might is right. Love, God and the Soul lie lost and forgotten, replaced by a shallow and vicious corporate culture of consumption. Welcome to a world where news is propaganda, democracy a savage pantomime. Welcome to a world where people exist only as consumers, working to buy shiny bling that they don’t need - only to replace it the next year with the same, but upgraded, bling. Welcome to a world of dwindling resources and environmental catastrophe. Welcome to a world where there is much for a few and little for the many.

Welcome to Anywhere:

Meet Killary Hinton, a politician so corrupt she bursts into flames.
Discover why Trolls hate Bankers.
A compassionate, campaigning Princess falls foul of the establishment and meets a tragic, and suspicious, end.
Two brothers try to reach Heaven, but first must pass through the foothills of Hell.
A rich man meets a poor man and has to confront that which lives in his Soul.
Barrage Obomber, politician and famous orator, spins his verbal magic over the Ordinary Folk of Anywhere.
The Perfect Parents – who turn out to be anything but.
A cry of ‘You have billions. We are billions’ rings out across the land as the Ordinary Folk rise up against The Greedy One Percent.
A sofa revolts against the ignorance of its owner, and swallows him whole.
9 darkly humorous tales of evil, hope, greed, murder and rebellion.

These tales are taken from my book 'The Curious Little Book of Extraordinary Big Tales'.

Praise for 'The Curious Little Book of Extraordinary Big Tales':
"Brilliant comic technique, and a glorious sense of moral outrage at the current mess in which our country seems mired, combine here to make a unique reading experience. Often laugh-out-loud funny, the real-life characters behind these innocuous fairy tales and fables hit you by surprise, a series of sharp rocks hidden in those snowballs. Amazingly, with all the faux-naievete and children's book elements gleefully displayed here, the writing never becomes twee or condescending. I don't know where this writer's been all his life, but I intend to catch up with him, and keep an eye on where he's headed next!...Bravo, Mr. Hennerly! Stay angry, and keep your books coming!" VINE VOICE

85 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 21, 2016

About the author

I am to be found firmly adrift in the land of Anywhere, also known as the Land of Stories, loitering with fictitious intent and words aforethought at the end of a sentence that begins with "Once upon a time...."

I live in England. I have some strange ideas in my head. I struggle with understanding what this world is about: is it really all random? I am blessed with a loving partner and family and three beautiful dogs. I eat, drink, sleep and bleed if you cut me. I am different things to different people at different times. I am capable of great kindness, casual and thoughtless cruelty, amazing wisdom and breathtaking stupidity.

I am chameleon, comedian and caricature (thank you, Mr. Bowie). I can reach for the stars or trawl the gutter. I can love or hate with equal ferocity. I have dark and primeval places in my mind that I fear to visit. I am simultaneously crushed and inspired by my heritage. Some days life leaves me bursting with joy, other days I am breathless with fear. I am a twitching bundle of insecurity and contradiction. I am flawed yet breathtakingly wonderful. I am full of a power, grace and spirituality so intense that I cannot even begin to understand it. I am beautiful. I am human. I am me. I am you.