Swallowing a Donkey's Eye by Paul Tremblay

On his desperate search to find his mother, he encounters ecoterrorists wearing plush animal suits, an election that hangs in the balance as the City's all-powerful Mayor is infatuated with magic refrigerators and outlaw campaigns, and a wise-cracking, over-sexed priest who may or may not have ESP, but who is most certainly his deadbeat dad. When the narrator's single mother, whom he left behind in City, falls out of contact, he fears the worst: his mother is homeless and subsequently to be deported under City to the Pier. City is sprawling, technocratic, and rests hundreds of feet above the coastline on the creaking shoulders of a giant wooden pier. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts and he is represented by Stephen Barbara, Inkwell Management.Join Farm today! It's only six years of your life! Farm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, antagonistic and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in chicken and duck suits, and farm animals illegally engineered for silence. He is also reading this bio aloud, now, with the same accent.

Jeremy Fisher aloud in a faux-British accent to children. He has a master’s degree in mathematics, teaches AP Calculus, and once made twenty-seven three pointers in a row. His second toe is longer than his big toe, and yes, on both feet. He once gained three inches of height in a single twelve hour period, and he does not have a uvula. Paul is very truthful and declarative in his bios. Paul is currently on the board of directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards as well. He served as fiction editor of CHIZINE and as co-editor of Fantasy Magazine, and was also the co-editor the Creatures anthology (with John Langan). He is the author of the short speculative fiction collections In the Mean Time and Compositions for the Young and Old and the hard-boiled/dark fantasy novella City Pier: Above and Below. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Supernatural Noir, and numerous Year’s Best anthologies. His other novels include The Little Sleep, No Sleep till Wonderland, Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye, and Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly (co-written with Stephen Graham Jones). Paul Tremblay is the author of the novels Disappearance at Devil’s Rock and A Head Full of Ghosts.

Swallowing a Donkey's Eye by Paul Tremblay