Desk Job by Rod Marsden

Lewis Carroll’s Alice thought Wonderland was strange. Sarah Hollingsworth knew her adventures in Office-land were twisted and downright bizarre. The office of the 1990s was a hunting ground where the unprotected were bagged and disposed of. The trick was not to be one of them. Hawks flew high, mules slogged away on their computers and praying mantises searched for prey. Butterflies and moths danced in the neon light. And the old caterpillar looked on passively to various unfolding dramas. Meanwhile mall rats and lika-lika birds, growing up in this decade, fervently hoped that everything about the office would become more civilized by the time they had to get a desk job. Whether or not the office has really changed much since the 1990s I will leave to you, dear reader, to decide.

Author: Rod Marsden

Rod Marsden was born in Sydney, Australia. He has three degrees; all related to writing and to history. His stories have been published in Australia, England, Russia and the USA. He has work in the American anthology Cats Do it Better. For some time now his short stories have turned up in Night to Dawn magazine. Undead Reb Down Under and Other Vampire Stories is a collection of his short fiction on vampirism. His novel Disco Evil: Dead Man’s Stand is his first venture into the vampire novel. Ghost Dance is his first undertaking into dark fantasy involving a quest. Desk Job is a first in that it is his salute to Lewis Carroll and it is also his initial surrealist novel. Rod has a fondness for the Wollongong area but an abiding love for the more northern Clarence River region of his home state of New South Wales. Both the Wollongong area and the Clarence River region frequently appear in his writing. He has also been to the USA and his adventures there also add spice to his prose.

For an excerpt from the book and information on how to buy, read about it on the publisher's website.

Posted on November 01, 2012