Cacophony: Collected Short Stories Volume One
By BP Gregory
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In the dim swampland of his mind Boris Bulgaris has always dreamed of working with fast food. The government executes people who fly as "terrorists", but Guntarc knows he can escape his life amidst the clouds. A well heeled lady almost misses an elevator, and she will desperately wish that she had.
For the first time eight of BP Gregory's unusual and sometimes horrifying short stories are available to enjoy together in Cacophony, annotated with bonus snippets of background lore from the author, and taken together the true taste of humanity will emerge.
BP Gregory
BP Gregory has been an archaeology student and a dilettante of biology, psychology, and apocalypse prepping. She is the author of five novels including the recently released Flora & Jim, about a father who’ll do anything to keep his daughter alive in a frozen wasteland.BP Gregory lives in Melbourne with her husband and is currently working on The Newru Trail, a murder-mystery set in a world where houses eat your memories. For stories, reviews and recommendations as she ploughs through her to-read pile visit bpgregory.com
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Acknowledgments
Cacophony cover image by ollyy. Promise cover image by Karramba Production. What a View cover image by Matthew Benoit. Follow cover image by Suzanne Tucker. Drive cover image by panco971. Commitment cover image by Mayer George. The Man’s Heart cover image by bergamont. It’s All About the Love cover image by Christy Liem. The Elevator Story cover image by Norman Chan. All courtesy of Shutterstock.
The Town cover image by Ortodox, Lunchbox cover image by kamontad999 (along with a millipede by Sakdinon Kadchiangsaen), Orotund cover image by Alex Malikov, Flora & Jim cover image by Marcel Jancovic, and Visit the Website image by Peter Dedeurwaerder all courtesy of Shutterstock.
What a View was first published in print in 2004 as part of All Change Please, Cardigan Press’ collection of short experimental fiction.
The Man’s Heart was first released in 2004 as part of G Wells Taylor’s ezine The Wildclown Chronicle.
It’s All About The Love was first released in 2004 as part of G Wells Taylor’s ezine The Wildclown Chronicle.
Content Advisory
These stories feature adult themes including abuse, cannibalism, child neglect, claustrophobia, graphic violence/gore, loss of a loved one, mental health issues, sexually explicit scenes, traumatic death, vehicular accident, and war. They may not be suitable for all readers.
Index
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Content Advisory
Promise
What A View
Follow
Drive
Commitment
The Man’s Heart
It’s All About The Love
The Elevator Story
Lunchbox
Also by BP Gregory
Promise
Crossing four lanes to the café, Guntarc’s friend was indistinguishable from the downpour until traffic was already on her. A spray of horns and bright commuter panic broke on the woman’s weary indifference. She seemed to wash up on the pavement ok.
No observer would believe that in their teens that same figure had dandied about dressed like gay pride come early. Hell, Guntarc thought; what were we even going to be, back then? Top of the dollar school with dutifully attended seminars on leadership, promises of glory, but not a single damn course gave tips on how you coped ending up just like everyone else. Now that would have been an education.
The door banged, dispersing nostalgia’s thick fug and Guntarc raised his hand – classroom days again! His friend saw and brought the weather squeezing across to the table like a wet dog.
This café was counter-service country; but obstinately bringing the mountain to Mohammed was a war the friend had won many times before. The café’s staff merited even less of a nod from her than they gave. They’d come around.
She contorted free of a bedraggled chrysalis of bag, gloves and a dangerously long scarf that threatened to snag a travelator and twist her head off someday. Finally divested, she then perched herself opposite with the skittishness of a woman who was stealing this sip of time. ‘Well look at the state of you.’
And this was what he got after serious efforts to scrape things together.
‘Wild night?’
Piqued, Guntarc placed his mobile phone down on the laminate between them with a faint grinding click.
His friend dabbled nervously in the spilled sweetener. ‘Not this again! Seriously, Guntarc I. Did not. Call you last night. At all!’ She tried for forcefulness, sweeping grains away. ‘Really, I get enough crazy already from my two year old.’
‘That’s interesting. Although by interesting I mean a big pile of crap. You see, I went and recorded it this time.’
The cushion beneath her sighed out its mustiness. His friend had cringed