On weird stories: "In even the most pessimistic of tales,
therein lies the brilliance of hope,
for the act of putting pen unto paper
is expressively optimistic,
presenting others an opportunity to grow." an Anonymous Vagrant. The following fairy tales are dedicated to all children & derelicts everywhere, but mostly to the people who shop.
TABLE OF STORIES
1) SEEDS
A commercial traveler searches the world over for new and marketable anomalies. His investigation eventually leads to a tribal village hidden deep within the jungles of Africa. Here he learns of secret vegetations capable of unimaginable feats. The discovery may prove enormously profitable, but can these surreal vines be safely transplanted back in the City of Gears?
2) THE ELEVATED CITY
A sociological imperative to exist beyond the earth’s capabilities has driven the soil barren, left the air void and the waters noxious.In our infinite genius, man has developed a layered architecture sprawling away from the ruined lands. Levels upon levels of strange apartment communities aim to annihilate the stratosphere in the same way they did the ground.
3) A TALE OF TWO TREES
As the all encompassing MAKINGLIFEPERFECT Corp. reaches new scientific heights, useless and manipulative products rein supreme. However the industrial success has attracted unexpected enemies. Hear the cries of nature for two trees have assimilated mechanical foliage battle armor in order to survive these terrifyingly technological times!
4) A SHOPPING SPREE NIGHTMARE
A Surreal shopping spree incites strange nightmare visions of an amorphous globular macroverse. Overwhelming enthusiastic, an unsuspecting shopper is engaged in a world of unobtainable satisfaction and eventually imprisoned in a sanatorium padded with buyer's remorse!
5) BRIDE OF THE WORKHORSE
In this romantic fairy tale a genetically modified centaur courts an artificially ameliorated fashion model. Can the fated love affair consummate or will mechanical deviations consume the once brightly illuminated passion? Another strange and unrealistic interpretation of the way things actually are in real life.
6) THE AMORPHOUS GLOB MACROVERSE
An apparently insignificant puddle is spilt over in the night. Whilst gathering on the floor the white paste malignantly mutates proceeding to commit a series of horrific telepathic invasions. The irregular and intrusive messages sent out from the glob reveal only the most damnable and unforgettable of all unwanted insights.
7) AFTER THE HARVEST
Surreal Aliens invade the earth only to question whether or not our planet is fit for conquest and assimilation! What will these beings make of mankind and what are their diabolical plans for our planets future? Beware, these extraterrestrial vegetations having been plotting our annihilation all the way from outer space to the monstrous metropolis!
WEIRD STORIES: 13 ILLUSTRATED FABLES
STORIES! RISE YE MIGHTY TREE AND DEFEND AGAINST THE MONSTER CITY! Two trees have assimilated a mechanical foliage battle armor, an elevated city breeds discontent, and a fashion shoot turns monster in these oneiric tragedies. Can the world survive another alien invasion or nature's retaliation? Storybook struggles of men as mice in the eyes of the environment, technology, and the infinite itself! Inexplicable revelations and surreal narrations lurk amidst the fine pen & ink studio illustrations. This collection of absurdities examines various sequences of chronological development regarding a series of peculiar, unusual, and apocalyptic events.Weird Stories & Monster Drawings by Mike Parsons 2010.
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