"Brendan Ball spent his formative years as a Prisoner of Conscience in a series of variably educational institutions before leaving a famous seat of learning (for preservation of sanity) to become a Failed Seditionist and Unemployed Poet.
He went into financial exile 14 years ago teaching the English language for coins and scraps of bread, but is now a recognised Pedagogical Enemy of the State in the Moscow area.
His first novel, 'Thieves in the Night', was published in 2014, with a second to follow. A themed triptych of short stories is also forthcoming."
The Cretin Gene
by Brendan Ball
Al Horowitz, ageing cartoonist and self-styled ninja, is catapulted from peaceful dotage to national notoriety when a dissident's assassin disguises himself as a benign Horowitz vegetable character, the opening gambit of a plot to cretinise the populace through customised junk food additives and media programming. Reviled in the press...
This dark triptych of stylistically diverse literary short stories - on the unifying theme of the occult and primitive religion, blending myth and mysticism and mystery - features three diverse protagonists: a tribal chief whose life depends on concealing signs of age, a debonair daemon suffering professional ennui in a staff training...
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