Bleak Friday

by Axel Hassen Taiari, Violet LeVoit, Lydia Xythali

Five bleeding edge tales of ruination, technology, resistance, ghosts, and loneliness. Bleak Friday features work by Axel Hassen Taiari, Kelby Losack, Lydia Xythali, Jo Quenell, and Violet LeVoit.

130 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2020

Reviews

[Danger · Rating 4 out of 5]

The stories in here have a bite to 'em, that's for sure. This would be classified as satire, I suppose, though it's not really the funny kind. More like the 'oh fuck, we're fucked' kind. From cyberpunk Parisian streets, to migrant workers in the early part of the 20th century, to a mysterious and spooky basement in Greece, to a nazi suffering from crisis of conscious, to a psycho-sexual consumerist sendup of George Orwell's 1984 - this slim volume certainly has A LOT to say. King Shot Press, who put out this anthology, describe themselves as a publisher of "radical fiction" and this certainly falls in line with that mission statement. Good writing. Good book.

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

An Excellent mini-anthology from King Shot Press. I liked all of these stories, though a couple stood out more than others for me. Jo Quenell's exellent Bomb Thrower is worth the price of admission alone. Violet LeVoit's entry is a next level reinterpretation of 1984 that needs to be read to be believed.
Recommended.

[Braden Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

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