Publisher's Synopsis
An exploration of sex, death, misanthropy and sadism. CONSENSUAL is perfect reading for the End of the World. Sex and violence are the order of the day, as they should be. A.D. Hitchin delivers Peter Sotos-levels of controlled fury, with equal parts skill, elitism and misanthropic disdain dripping off each page. When you open CONSENSUAL, be aware you are consenting to something you may not be prepared for. Hitchin's work separates wolves from sheep. - James Porrazzo, founder No Lives Matter Bareback riding, psychotic sadness, online hate, real-world anonymity, gloomy shadows illuminating the Lost Prophets sex scandal, identity games, human arrogance and anxiety, consent and the lack thereof, death as isolation - these are just some of the uneasily aggressive themes and frontiers which A.D. Hitchin confronts in this collection... A tangled, gnarled post-Burroughsian blend of Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Lenny Bruce and Francois Villon. - Joe Ambrose, Tangier Tsunami, Chelsea Hotel Manhattan, Serious Time A sexual, sacrificial, spectacular tour through the darkest recesses of his psyche... the words of A.D. Hitchin will rip your senses raw. - Billy Chainsaw A.D. Hitchin cuts samples from the space of possible desire in vivid prose recalling the best of Burroughs or Ballard in its willingness to anatomise without humanist illusion. Consensual, it should be said, is also deeply erotic, reminding us of the strange shapes of our own need. - David Roden, author of Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (Routledge, 2014) Consensual explores the depth of the human psyche, doors accessed only by the few that possess an inner wisdom. Here you'll find the various shifting themes of erotica, subjugation and fear, and reach a new enlightened perspective - a shift in consciousness - with New Laws to be broken - above and beyond the primitive roles mankind or God has permitted... - Jerome Alexandre, Deadcuts