THE LAUGHER OF STRANGERS by Michael J. Seidlinger
THE LAUGHER OF STRANGERS by Michael J. Seidlinger
~64,000 WORDS
©2013
Lazy Fascist Press
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'SUGAR' WILLEM FLOURES
That's a name I built from the ground up. I wasn't the first to systematically climb the ranks, beating the sugar out of everyone I had known to be inferior, leaving only the sour taste of defeat, my claim forever being:
"I am the greatest!"
I can still hear it now. In the silence of this locker room, blood drying on my face, I can still hear those words.
And I was. I was the greatest.
JAB
LEFT HOOK
JAB
LEFT HOOK
RIGHT HOOK
JAB
STRAIGHT
TO THE BODY:
JAB
JAB
POWER SHOT STRAIGHT
POWER SHOT STRAIGHT
UPPERCUT
And then a voice says, "'Sugar'... you are no longer sweet with the science."
"The bare-bones prose within The Laughter of Strangers is heartbreaking, bleak, and stays with you long after finishing the book. This one should not be ignored." — Frank Bill, author of Donnybrook
"The Laughter of Strangers delivers a combination of psychological horror and strangeness that would not be out of place in a David Lynch film. Seidlinger's weird new fight fiction suggests that perhaps the best place for boxing contests isn't in the ring but between the pages of a book." — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times