Black Pills

BLACK PILLS is a collection of genre-bending
short fiction exploring the unmitigated shit show that is our present reality.

“Garth’s work is not literary, and yet it is. He hides his considerable emotional intelligence under a bushel of belchingly funny, low brow humour and sickening concepts. I find myself throwing up and eating it up at the same time, which I put down to his talent for making me laugh while sliding a shiv-like human theme between my ribs, which is not so much a flex as a hex” – from Queensland Literary Award winner Steve MinOn’s foreword.

BLACK PILLS features seven heroic doses of uncut gonzo fiction, each 110% guaranteed to astonish and confound:

💊 RENNIE ‘N ‘RELLE SMASH SOME NAZIS: A ROMANCE
💊 HUGO GARRETT’S EXEMPLARY MOWING TECHNIQUE (Winner, short fiction, Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Award)
💊 THE QUADRATIC ABDUCTIONS OF PRIQUE JEJUNE
💊 THE INSATIABLE S*XUAL WITCHES OF WRIGGLER’S BEND
💊 THE HORIZONTAL BALLERINA
💊 RENTAL HELL!
💊 THE ISSUE OF THE FERAL PIG DOWN AT COFFIN CREEK

Early praise for Black Pills

“An exciting and accomplished avant-garde writer who rips up the rules and produces genre-bending, provocative, action-packed pulp-fiction” – Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“Witty and clever… lucid, restrained and always appropriate” – David Hill, OAM, Seeya Simon

“Oozes class, is bathed in cool, and sneers at you - daring you to open it and let yourself in. It’s Garth’s best work yet” – Dave Musson, Once More Around The Sun

“It’s vulgar and excessive, but also erudite and clearly informed by an extensive and eclectic stock of creative influences” – Dr Lara Cain Gray, The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books