Paradise In Purgatory: From The Nightmare to The Daydream

by Mark Daniel Rogers

Overview

Mahdakis accidentally stumbles upon a much needed change in his life and unconsciously slams a door shut behind him while bumbling his way through another, opening him up to an unsullied colorful world of sobriety and optimism; a world filled with shiny happy people exuding positive reinforcement.
This phenomenon, of course, sickens him.
Yet, despite his reluctance to adapt, he inexplicably finds himself playing with some high school seniors in a local F.A.G.G. Metal band (Female-Aspirant Guy Group) and socializing amongst young F.A.G.G. Metal ilk.
While degrading to him at first, he slowly begins to feel an invigorating sense of purpose and motivation as he warily feeds off the refreshing bombastic innocence of these F.A.G.G.'s.

On Other Fronts:

After getting reinstated as a mortal being by the super hero committee, Pumpkinhead seeks validation as a Middle-Earth Wizard......The Norford Police Department sets up a sting operation to put Jack Scentoola away once and for all......Charlotte Cummings starts to show very vivid true colors......Snowy McPeet returns from his capture in a top secret government lab......Goiter has a coming out party......Mahdakis and Nicki leave for Cincinnati, to start life anew. While they find solace in one another, they don't find much of anything else......Captain H. has his hands full when the AIDS virus hits close to home and new promotions are being given to some and death sentences to others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781537619033
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/15/2016
Series:	B.U.R.N.O.U.T.S. Chronicles , #4
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Let me preface by saying I'm not a so much a writer as I am a guy who writes. Before I wrote The B.U.R.N.O.U.T.S. Chronicles™ novels, I wrote music. Before I wrote music, I wrote some poetry. And before I wrote poetry, I would graffiti the bathroom walls in junior high school. Each stage of my writings merely being the most convenient platform of attention at the time; meaning also, that when I was touring in rock and roll bands up and down the east coast, I wasn't so much a musician as I was a guy who played music, using that platform as a means to make myself heard and furthermore, understood as a human being.

The B.U.R.N.O.U.T.S. Chronicles™ are putrid little stories depicting delightfully grotesque chain reactions of teenage and young adult misadventures, spawned by ridiculously absurd notions of self-worth and aspirations of future greatness.

While the stories themselves are overall products of my demented imagination, they do tend to run a close parallel to actual events, or at least general behavior that was........or could have been.

I do hope that this spattering of words gives you a few laughs, a cry, an arousal, or amuses you in some way, shape or form; but most importantly reminds you, that you are not alone with your little idiosyncrasies and odd personality traits because The B.U.R.N.O.U.T.S.™ really do exist......

"....and we're out here.................doin' stuff."