Old Gooseberry

By Kurse Illionaire

Rebellious children express themselves in many different ways. These ways are handled differently by different parents. When Cozen, Skeezicks, and Apollyon rebel, every form of hell breaks loose on a catastrophic scale. From blood, birth, and bonds, the fabric of insanity becomes a cloak to conceal a much more religious culling. This is the first of a tandem telling of a torturous release and expulsion of love and purpose. This is Old Gooseberry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 16, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796022216

Kurse Illionaire

(The author) was born on a military base in Augsburg, Germany on June 2, 1980. From there it was on to his mother's hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and then on to Fayetteville, North Carolina. No matter where he traveled horror movies, zoology & writing became a fast obsession early in his childhood and by the 3rd grade, this combination had his teachers worried due to the short stories he'd written. Nevertheless (the author) continued to deeply research his passions without concern for the opinions of others. These days, the city streets of Philadelphia and the southern roads of Fayetteville are the only places he calls home.

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Copyright © 2019 by Kurse Illionaire.

ISBN:                  Softcover               978-1-7960-2205-6

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Rev. date: 03/15/2019

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Contents

Old Gooseberry Characters

Sons & Brothers 1

Gypsy Pure Picaro 2

Tophet 3

Polly 4

Xanthippe 5

Drown The World 6

Coming Undone 7

D.S.A.D.S.8

A Helping Hand 9

Virago 10

Bruja 11

Empty 12

Bette Noir 13

Bellabor 14

Spiteful Compassion 15

Tophet: Dad17

Flood: Mother 18

Old Gooseberry Characters

Tophet - Short red hair, pointed white teeth, tan boots white tee shirt, dark blue jeans, purple eyes.* impact/bold/italics font

Xanthippe - deformed body, one arm, partially exposed spine, grey eyes, patches of long tangled hair, oversized tongue.

Sedah - Pale, no eyelids, bald, cane made from femurs.

Bette Noir - Long legs, tall, thigh high stillettos(green), wifebeater, boyshorts(green), long black knee length hair. Perfect teeth. Dark skin, green eyes.

Cozen - 6'9 green eyes, bald, muscular build, black suit, green tie, green cufflinks, green shoes.*impact font

Skeezicks - 6'4, gangly, bald, long tangled beard, dirty torn tee shirt, muddy blue jeans, barefoot(moves without making noise, no fingerprints)*kartika/italics font

Apollyon - pointed white teeth, tan boots, white wifebeater, black waist length fur coat, blue jeans, red dreadlocks, purple eyes.

Virago - long dark hair, brown skin, barefoot, only breast,arms and lower legs are visible.

Bruja - massive, muscular, 10 eyes, black/shadow like, soft feminine voice.

Bellabor - long legs, tall, black shoulder length hair, perfect white teeth, knee high stillettos, wifebeater, boyshorts(blue),dark skin

Gypsy Pure Picaro- tall, long thick legs, short dark hair, perfect white teeth, green eyes.*haettenschweiler/italics font

Sons & Brothers 1

By day three the flies freely danced in and out of their mother’s corpse. Buzzards were no longer wary of the children’s presence and would even use the tallest boy as a perch to survey other feeding stations. The dust never could calm itself. Every flap of every wing stirred a low, grainy fog. The foul odor that had conquered the once healthy" air pushed against the two boys and pulled the small, red haired girl. Lonely and confusion, not dedicated loyalty, froze the three children by their mother’s picked body. They cried for half a mournful minute: their tears of joy stopped flowing thirty seconds ago. Six legs burned from incessant standing and kneeling: nudging the body