Overview

Four friends in South Jersey work dead-end jobs but find community and purpose in their creativity and involvement in the South Jersey/Philadelphia music scene. Following a couple of unexpected deaths, a chance encounter with a mysterious record label exec throws the lives of everyone involved into hallucinatory disarray. Strange events ensue: poltergeist activity, savage claw marks on the top of a car, and unexplained bloody wounds. Some of the friends are thrown into moral dilemmas, making choices that might not be entirely their own. ​Set in the late 1980s and told in the first person by the four main characters, the novel straddles the intersection of horror, humor, and surrealism. It ultimately stands as a treatise on the ferocity and urgency of creativity as well as the predatory aspects of the music industry.

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""Decky's crackling debut is a heady mix of music, psychedelic supernatural shenanigans, and the pursuit of fame. Divey 80's clubs, nearly empty movie theaters, and makeshift recording studios are the perfect setting for four friends trying to break free of the small-town, going-nowhere blues. Punctuated by startling violence and hazy memories, Decky weaves a (wildly fun) cautionary tale about what you would do to make your dreams come true.""--Molly Pohlig, author of The Unsuitable ""A creepy good read...""--R.A. Bolo, author of Down and Out in Paris, with Cat ""Woven through with movies and music, Decky's story beats with an idiosyncratic rhythm of wit and transformation.""--Louise MacGregor, author of Right Guy, Wrong Time

Author Information

Stephen St. Francis Decky is a multimedia artist and writer whose work has appeared in a wide array of festivals, collections, and museums, including the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan. As a projection and video designer, he has worked on operas, musicals, and video installations with Mountain Time Arts in Bozeman, MT, IlluminArts Miami, and Beth Morrison Projects, as well as many other arts organizations. Stephen has taught animation, film, and video classes at several schools, including Ithaca College, Tufts University, and Lycoming College, and his films have screened at festivals internationally, including the Camden International Film Festival and the VOID International Animation Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. His fiction has appeared in Philadelphia Stories, Berkeley Fiction Review, and Luna Negra. He is the author of ""Make the Bear Be Nice"" - Frayed Edge Press Street Smart Series, No. 6, and currently lives and works in central New York.

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