Posted on January 31, 2021 by adminHole Punch “Hole Punch, by Garth Simmons, is a short story collections that defies description. Within its pages are hundreds of short, often fragmented, often bizarre narratives, characterised by cartoonish excess, visceral sensory descriptions, eccentric characters, and a grim but brilliant humour.”neonbooks,org.uk “a raw, fragmented, nightmarish collection of stories that makes you feel simultaneously bewildered, scared, disgusted, amused and angry all at once”Dystopic.co.uk HOLE PUNCH is: The height of the Earth Empire – where War Bricks flatten alien civilisations.Yorkshire 1985 – where a child’s mind is patched together with trauma.Ancient Greece – where Socrates discovers a carnal method of time-travel.Mars 2348 – where crime and terror haunt the Martian Habitation Domes.The Mistake’s skull – where Muscle Society achieves self-destruction.Delaware Dost – where mindfulness prevails and hierarchy is understood.The End of Everything – where convert concepts welcome refugees into the folds of theory. All these places (and many more!) reside within the tangled text of Hole Punch. $1.99 Bargain Book from January 31 – February 6, 2021