The Damage Patrol Quartet: Four Stories

A feckless young architect falls in with a sixteen-year-old’s dubious trucking venture. Drug-addled Randy bemoans his fate as a slave employee in New Fascist Australia. An archeologist arrives on a tiny artificial gravity platform to give a scholarly lecture to barbarian colonists. And the Conscious Reach Corporation sets out to cure an entire city’s mental illness. More

Four surreal stories with bizarre underpinnings and uncanny twists. “Roadblock” features a feckless architectural school graduate who falls in with a sixteen-year-old’s dubious trucking venture to the rural south, only to confront mystical construction strikers. In “Randy and Laura,” drug-addled Randy bemoans his fate as a slave employee in New Fascist Australia, working a gas station night-shift with Laura, who longs to escape both his insane delusions and a trauma Randy isn’t equipped to understand. “Perpetual Starlit Night” explores an archeologist’s arrival on a tiny artificial gravity platform in deep space to give a scholarly lecture to barbarian colonists who declare her a criminal like themselves. Finally, “Damage Patrol” describes how the Conscious Reach Corporation proposes to cure an entire city’s mental illness, one tormented soul at a time.

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