The Lost Loners of Suburbia by Kenneth Francis After the publication of Kenneth Francis's urban Absurdist tales of the 'Cities', 'Corridors', and 'Dead Beetle', Francis concludes the trilogy and shifts geographically from the metropolis to the world of small-town...
The Lost Loners of Suburbia by Kenneth Francis
The Lost Loners of Suburbia
by Kenneth Francis
After the publication of Kenneth Francis’s urban Absurdist tales of the ‘Cities’, ‘Corridors’, and ‘Dead Beetle’, Francis concludes the trilogy and shifts geographically from the metropolis to the world of small-town suburban gothic. The Lost Loners of Suburbia highlights the alienation of bleak satellite ghost towns in moral and physical decay, those old familiar places of the 1980s to the now overgrown-with-weeds stores, cracked pavement haunts where we once used to meet, but now lie the remnants of boarded-up shopping malls and the once great Pizza Huts where we ate pizzas, drank Coca-Cola and picked tasty treats from the self-service salad trays, where one can now almost hear the distant ghostly echoing sounds of teenage laughter and joyous chit-chat from pretty girls with big hair and wearing wide shoulder pads and batwing sleeves ladieswear, as Katrina and the Waves blasted out “I’m Walking on Sunshine” from the eatery’s Jukebox. Welcome to the suburbia of lost loner souls, with deserted walkways and ominous dark places where strangers lurk with diabolical intent, along with white picket fences and beautiful red roses growing in front of them, amid the dark underbelly of gothic foreboding.
TESTIMONIALS
“Kenneth Francis transforms suburban ruins into haunting monuments to memory, loneliness, and cultural decay. These absurdist tales echo with vanished laughter, abandoned dreams, and the unsettling ghosts of places we once called our own home.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Victim Soul in the Dark Night of Nosferatu
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kenneth Francis is the current Editor of Mind Matters and a Contributing Editor at New English Review. For the past 30 years, he has worked as an editor at various publications and as a journalism professor at a university. He also holds an MA in Theology and is the author of The Little Book of God, Mind, Cosmos and Truth, The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd (with Theodore Dalrymple), and Neither Trumpets Nor Violins (with Theodore Dalrymple and Samuel Hux). His most recent books are Theology in Music: How Christian Themes Permeate Classic Songs, Theology in Film: How Christian Themes Permeate Classic Movies, Cities of the Absurd: Strange Tales from the Dark Metropolis, Corridors of the Absurd: Sinister Tales from the Deep Halls of Power and Dreams, and In the Belly of a Dead Beetle.
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