Publisher's Synopsis
Set in the dismantled nation of Australia in the near future, THE CLOMP OF HOOVES is the story of Xave, an indifferent man who has had his romantic impulses neutered but masturbates with other men to share resources and food. When Xave meets Dylan, a young solosexual who has romantic and sexual yearnings for himself, Xave becomes compelled to see the young man thrive. As fascist forces emerge to crush solosexual and freedom to masturbate, Xave risks all to protect his young friend's purity. The narrative is punctuated by Xave's "bate speak" - a babbling verbalisation of the male's worship of penis bliss - yet the drive of this Bacchanalian fable is crystal clear.A queer, dystopian novella which calls to mind the work of William S. Burroughs, THE CLOMP OF HOOVES is a raw and probing work capturing the new aesthetic of solosexuality.
