Delusions of Grandeur: Stories and Poems by John Beechem
Delusions of Grandeur: Stories and Poems by John Beechem
These are a collection of marvelous, horrible, strange and compelling works.
You are invited to ride on a wave of manic energy, as a young bi-polar man loses his grip on one reality and pierces the veil of another. Drive through the desert with a coyote, or human smuggler, until he unleashes the beast caged up inside him. Scavenge the wasteland of Brooklyn in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse with a well-armed crew at your side. Witness the horror of a lynching, when Old Louisville was new, and learn the terrible price paid in a neighborhood that has earned its haunted reputation. Get to know a gunslinger and his robotic partner as they blaze through the American Southwest hundreds of years into the future, generations past the Great Fall.
Catch your breath with a bit of poetry. Or plunge into a narrative poem that tells its own story. Feast your eyes on art and illustrations worth many thousands of words. If you enjoy the pulp fiction of many genres, but still have a literary bone in your body, this is the collection for you.
When reality becomes a burden, enjoy a sojourn into the fantastic…