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headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3815) [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 4670: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3815) [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 4671: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3815) [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 4672: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3815) Horror World • View topic - JUNGLE by BRETT MCBEAN - Tasmaniac Announcement
Joined: Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:14 pm Posts: 482 Location: Tassie, Australia
JUNGLE by Brett McBean
JUNGLE: n 1 any dense or tangled thicket or growth 2 a place of intense competition or ruthless struggle for survival
We’re trapped in a world of modern convenience, of steel giants and oceans of concrete. For the most part we’re content to live in this colourless existence. But we’ve paid for our comfortable lifestyles. Instead of looking out our windows and seeing a forest of trees, we see a forest of buildings; instead of a clear flowing river, we see rapids of asphalt and an endless stream of vehicles cascading along its surface. Smog chokes the once clean air. Noise pollution drowns out the birdsong. It’s a jungle out there, but not in the way nature intended. Which is why nature has decided to take back control.
Welcome to the new world.
A world in which the land has reverted back to jungle, where you no longer fight for a parking space, but for your life; where supermarkets have become places of savagery and your next-door neighbour looks at you not as a friend, but as perhaps their next meal. A world where survival is reserved only for the fittest…and for the cunning.
Welcome to the jungle.
In a series of three novellas, Brett McBean takes a look at life in the modern world and turns it inside out. He transforms the common into the uncommon, the banal into the unreal, as everything from a multi-level car park, to a typical suburban sprawl become dangerous hunting grounds. Forget TV dinners and 50% discounts at your local Target - it's a fight for survival as nature takes over your homes and shopping centres.
Book 1: CONCRETE JUNGLE
After attacking the sales and scourging for last minute gifts in an adjacent shopping centre, a disparate group of people head back to the multi-story underground car park. It’s late, the only cars left are their own, and they begin to leave. Only they can’t. For some reason, no one can find the exit, instead travelling in endless, inane circles. In time they find one another, and, banding together, try and find a way out…though none of them can. Hours become days, days form into weeks. They eat and drink from limited reserves but it isn’t long before desperation sets in. Tempers are frayed, though they strive to keep hope alive by searching for that elusive way out. Stranger still, weeds begin to grow at an accelerated rate through the cracks of the concrete; then bushes, trees and vines. Wild animals start to appear, which soon adapt under the canopy, governed by hunger. The car park transforms into jungle, back to what once stood there. Now the humans must fight to survive – not only each other, but also Mother Nature.
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:58 pm Posts: 6411 Location: The Back of Beyond.
I've already experienced some of Brett's writing with New Dark Voices and The Last Motel. He's an excellent writer who worships Richard Laymon-what more could you want?
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