Cities are the defining aggregation of modern humankind. Hate to live with them, hate to live without them.

Allen Ashley’s tales of Urban Fantasy are intensely surreal, savagely satirical, subtly subversive and despairingly funny. Possessed of a unique vision and a distinctive prose style, Allen Ashley exposes the absurdities of modern British society like no other writer. Every waking moment is a struggle for continued sanity and survival as we muddle thoughtlessly through this surrealist joke called civilisation. The challenges – factual, fictitious, mythical, eminently plausible – just keep on coming. Ashley demonstrates that, if you have the nose for it, apocalypse can be smelled everywhere – in the latest media circus; in the latest dubious laws or government measures; in celebrity culture or the surveillance state; in the mindsets and prejudices of the population and in the tiniest actions we all perform.

Contents:
Beholders
Black Forest Manoeuvres
Canoe Boy
Play the Pipes Of Pan
The Pamela Faction
D-Leb
Waving Not Drowning
Flat Top
Stoners
Turbulent Times
Petrified
The Accidentalists
The Spaces in Our Lives
The Slot
Murdoch Celeste
Nine Views of the Light of the World
The Short and the Long of It
Slow Planes
War Haven
Shirts
Future Cities
Today We Were Astronauts