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The Butcher of Nazareth
When I think about it, I am terrified and my body trembles in horror.
- Job 21:6
"The New Testament à la Cormac McCarthy." - Kirkus Reviews
THE STORY:
Haunting visions drive a grieving butcher to hunt down an obese, pre-ministry Jesus to prevent an age of fire and ash.
But when the Butcher ‘adopts’ a dead newborn, his hunt for the son of Nazareth takes a personal and horrific turn.
How does one choose between personal redemption and world-wide salvation?
From Bethlehem to Jerusalem to Nazareth, familiar events and figures are reimagined with a modern sensibility, building to a gut-wrenching conclusion.
A heart of darkness story that explores: fathers and sons, grief, zealotry, and choice.
Foreword by Dave Fitzgerald (author of Troll – Kirkus Reviews Top Indie Books of 2023)
CONTENT WARNING: Sexual situations, graphic violence, adult themes, infanticide, volatile theology, immolation, animal slaughter, Christ depiction, zealotry, disfigurement, apocalypse, honey.
[NSFW]
I can do anything for 90 days. Can You...?
“Set in the world of social media moderators, @Sa>ag3 and @Jun1p3r must survive their first 90 days on the job to qualify for health benefits and a life-changing mystery bonus.
An experimental speculative fiction/horror novel. The Office meets A Clockwork Orange.”
NEW RELEASE
One drink.
And you can create an artistic masterpiece. Fame. Fortune. A legacy.
But shortly thereafter you may die.
Do you still drink? Maybe a sip.
Maybe a swish.
It’s just water, right?
A literary dramedy in the vein of Vonnegut, Palahuink, and Monty Python.
Check out what the readers are saying...
"Cutting, savage, and soulful. NSFW is one of those rare works of speculative fiction that succeed in making the near future feel like the recent past, thereby allowing us to imagine we've made it across the cusp and into the brave new world with some of our humanity intact. As vivid and courageous a reckoning with the territory ahead as any we're likely to find.”
David Leo Rice
The New House
“As a futurist, Hay has vision. As a populist, a story. As a satirist, venom.”
Darren Callahan
from his Introduction to [NSFW]. City of Human Remains, The White Airplane &
Horror Academy: Two Plays
"NSFW is a fever-dream indictment of social media culture and violence, smart phone addiction, and the exploitation of workers by unethical corporations. It's satirical and violent, dark and strange, and the ways in which the main characters self-medicate to live in this dystopian now are at once curious and entertaining and deeply sad. All of these elements combine to make NSFW one of my favorite books of the year and David Scott Hay one of my favorite writers, period."
Anna Dickson James
Boys Buy Me Drinks To Watch Me Fall Down
FUTURIST | SATIRIST | TYPIST
DSH
Makes a mean Old Fashioned and the best ribs on the block. He’s originally from OKC and lost the tip of a finger in a chop saw incident in the Windy City on his way to the City of Angels.
DSH is a 2x Kirkus Prize Nominee and Member of HWA & SFWA.
He now lives in a valley between the ocean, the mountains, and the desert with his wife, son, dog, chickens, and a dozen typewriters.
Check out what the critics are saying...
"Hay’s latest throws a permanent Gen X scowl at technologically dependent modern life. But the burgeoning love between two protagonists for whom sex is easier than conversation is the true resonating center. @Sa>ag3’s journey inserts a wild-eyed freshness in the prospect of life in the 21st century." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“DSH’s writing is witty, smart, and precise.” Chicago Sun-Times
“This scribe has a great linguistic flair.” Variety
“A mercurial talent.”
Jay Bonansinga, The Walking Dead novels
“Hay’s tonal mimicry of Fight Club (1996) author Chuck Palahniuk is astonishing.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“DSH has a taut, bristling writing style stacked with compelling ideas.” New City Journal
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NEW RELEASE
One drink.
And you can create an artistic masterpiece. Fame. Fortune. A legacy.
But shortly thereafter you may die.
Do you still drink? Maybe a sip.
Maybe a swish.
It’s just water, right?
A literary dramedy in the vein of Vonnegut, Palahuink, and Monty Python.
