The Animals: or, The Color of Insanity

by emory wolfe

The only city left on Earth is full of broken buildings and broken people. Autumn lives here, in a world full of women with green mustaches, people masturbating openly, giant talking grasshoppers, one giant, chaotic, and absurd, sprawling mess of a city full of orgies, trash, and cigarette butts, all plastered in the color orange. Every fetish unimaginable openly permissible, work that doesn't end, questions are not allowed. But then Autumn discovers something forgotten. Something ancient. Something beautiful. And something dangerous. Love.

This love begins to create conflict in Autumn's mind, forming two voices that begin a dangerous war over his existence. One is a voice of reason, his guidepost, and the other an insatiable appetite to indulge in the graphic, shocking, and disturbing hedonistic values of society.

And so Autumn attempts to define his own values, his own purpose, in a purposeless world. But in order to do so, he must first discover what separates animals from humans... if anything.

395 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 10, 2017

About the author

With dark, gritty satire, Wolfe attempts to show the dark side in us. Hilariously horrible, too disturbing for some, he is not for the herd. Bare, awkward, or prophetic, these are the situations that unite us. When not writing, he plays Final Fantasy XIV, watches horror movies, or reads to his 2 cats.