Mother Bitchfight

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Summary: Toxic-Waste Love, and a Futuristic Fight Show to the death
Review: This thin, 60 page book is Necro's "Dark Duet" IV; and a very tasty addition to your gore pallet. Probably one of Lee's most disgusting works to date.

The first of the duet is Edward Lee's "Mother", a truly repulsive story of Smith, Coroner in a picturesque small town. He has a plain-looking wife whom he loves named Marie, and a precocious seven-year-old daughter named Jeannie. Smith loves to bird watch, except the bird he watches the most is his neighbor's college aged daughter Donna, spying on her through his binoculars while she sunbathes.

Then one day as he is "bird watching" he sees his daughter running down the wooded ravine by his house towards a mysterious red and white barrel. Suddenly frightened, knowing that the barrel contained some kind of chemical waste, he chases after Jeannie and orders her not to go near the drum.

He should have listened to his own words, for when Smith pokes at the drum's lid, it pops off and releases a brown, foul smelling ooze into the dry creek bed. After reporting the dumped waste to the authorities, Smith spends an uncomfortable night dreaming of his wife, neighbor Donna, and daughter involved in an erotic romp through the spilled sludge.

Then things really get weird when the women's behavior changes, and his daughter seems to know something about the waste that escapes Smith, giving him odd instructions in regards to The Mother and The Father. What is this sludge? Was the dream real? What will happen to the women, and will his daughter know what to do?

Although the length of the story wasn't great enough for any of the characters to fully develop, Lee still manages to pen a repugnant and satisfyingly gruesome tale of love and toxic waste that is not to be missed by any true Lee fans.

The second piece of the duet is "Bitchfight" by Patrick Lestewka. In a future world of television saturated by "Reality" shows, the competition is fierce enough to take the games one step further; to the death. Shows are emerging in which contestants are injected with a deadly virus and given 24 hours to find the antidote, or locked into sensory deprivation chambers for years, or tortured in order to see which is the last to survive. A brutal world with brutal entertainment.

Pandora Murphy is a "Bitchfighter", as she calls it, and in a world where welfare no longer exists she fights for a living in order to support herself and her daughter Piquette. The "Bitchfights" have three tier levels; Stock, Mod, and Super-Mod. Pandora is a Stock fighter, unaltered except in the simplest forms; knuckle inserts, ankle spurs, elbow domes, and the likes. Mods have undergone neurosurgery in order to speed up their reaction time to lightening speeds, block pain receptors, and increase adrenaline levels. Super-Mods are the class of "anything goes", where the women literally become cybernetically designed machines of destruction.

After a successful fight, Pandora is sitting around drinking beer with her trainer, Ezekiel Jackson, when a limo pulls up next to them and a talent scout named Casey Forbes steps out and makes Pandora an offer.

He will pay for her to become a surgically enhanced Mod, giving her a break into Primetime. After promising her that she would be fighting only other newbies and not the all time champion Jasmine Conner, Pandora agrees to his proposal against Jackson's wishes.

But this is a world of brutality, disease, corruption...and betrayal. Lestewka's tale is definitely worthy to be included with Lee's; a very dark and miserable look into a future that holds nothing sacred, and yet he has infused it with the tenderest love of all; that between a mother and her child.

Definitely worth the price to pick up this small book, there are only 400 signed and numbered paperbacks available. Get one now if you are a fan of Edward Lee. Enjoy!

Rating:
Summary: Toxic-Waste Love, and a Futuristic Fight Show to the death
Review: This thin, 60 page book is Necro's "Dark Duet" IV; and a very tasty addition to your gore pallet. Probably one of Lee's most disgusting works to date.

The first of the duet is Edward Lee's "Mother", a truly repulsive story of Smith, Coroner in a picturesque small town. He has a plain-looking wife whom he loves named Marie, and a precocious seven-year-old daughter named Jeannie. Smith loves to bird watch, except the bird he watches the most is his neighbor's college aged daughter Donna, spying on her through his binoculars while she sunbathes.

Then one day as he is "bird watching" he sees his daughter running down the wooded ravine by his house towards a mysterious red and white barrel. Suddenly frightened, knowing that the barrel contained some kind of chemical waste, he chases after Jeannie and orders her not to go near the drum.

He should have listened to his own words, for when Smith pokes at the drum's lid, it pops off and releases a brown, foul smelling ooze into the dry creek bed. After reporting the dumped waste to the authorities, Smith spends an uncomfortable night dreaming of his wife, neighbor Donna, and daughter involved in an erotic romp through the spilled sludge.

Then things really get weird when the women's behavior changes, and his daughter seems to know something about the waste that escapes Smith, giving him odd instructions in regards to The Mother and The Father. What is this sludge? Was the dream real? What will happen to the women, and will his daughter know what to do?

Although the length of the story wasn't great enough for any of the characters to fully develop, Lee still manages to pen a repugnant and satisfyingly gruesome tale of love and toxic waste that is not to be missed by any true Lee fans.

The second piece of the duet is "Bitchfight" by Patrick Lestewka. In a future world of television saturated by "Reality" shows, the competition is fierce enough to take the games one step further; to the death. Shows are emerging in which contestants are injected with a deadly virus and given 24 hours to find the antidote, or locked into sensory deprivation chambers for years, or tortured in order to see which is the last to survive. A brutal world with brutal entertainment.

Pandora Murphy is a "Bitchfighter", as she calls it, and in a world where welfare no longer exists she fights for a living in order to support herself and her daughter Piquette. The "Bitchfights" have three tier levels; Stock, Mod, and Super-Mod. Pandora is a Stock fighter, unaltered except in the simplest forms; knuckle inserts, ankle spurs, elbow domes, and the likes. Mods have undergone neurosurgery in order to speed up their reaction time to lightening speeds, block pain receptors, and increase adrenaline levels. Super-Mods are the class of "anything goes", where the women literally become cybernetically designed machines of destruction.

After a successful fight, Pandora is sitting around drinking beer with her trainer, Ezekiel Jackson, when a limo pulls up next to them and a talent scout named Casey Forbes steps out and makes Pandora an offer.

He will pay for her to become a surgically enhanced Mod, giving her a break into Primetime. After promising her that she would be fighting only other newbies and not the all time champion Jasmine Conner, Pandora agrees to his proposal against Jackson's wishes.

But this is a world of brutality, disease, corruption...and betrayal. Lestewka's tale is definitely worthy to be included with Lee's; a very dark and miserable look into a future that holds nothing sacred, and yet he has infused it with the tenderest love of all; that between a mother and her child.

Definitely worth the price to pick up this small book, there are only 400 signed and numbered paperbacks available. Get one now if you are a fan of Edward Lee. Enjoy!