Amphisbaena

by Ray Succre

Overview

A sober disinterest in relationships causes Bill Sherman, failing calendarist, to abandon dating for many years. When pressured into a speed dating event by his brother, Bill meets Amy and decides to attempt a relationship again. He learns quickly, however, that Amy is two people: The inseparable Amy and Janine. These two women design to date Bill in tandem, both to his confusion and enjoyment. Where Amy holds Bill dear to her heart, Janine is unable to function outside of physical pleasure. Bill soon discovers that this strange predicament is only the beginning of a much larger system of rules and interaction, and the relationship changes more when Bill realizes that the two women happen each to be one half of an ancient, two-headed black snake. Amy is the alpha head and has subjugated her venom in an attempt to understand human notions of beauty. Bill is not allowed to touch her. Janine is the enticer head and may not be in league with Amy where Bill is concerned.

Can a man love if there is only appetite? Will he care more deeply for the woman he can never touch? What happens when monogamy becomes taboo and a fine-tuned machine of murder learns the human consequence of going against one's nature for a greater meaning?

Laden with whimsical depiction and a foraging exposition on gender, occupation, and dating in modern society, Amphisbaena is the story of three people trapped somewhere between nature and culture, through a humorous adventure into the biological mess of love and romance.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940033261925
Publisher:	Ray Succre
Publication date:	05/26/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	480 KB

About the Author

Ray Succre (longstanding pseudonym of Robin Morrison) is 38 and currently lives in Eugene, Oregon, a new transplant from Iowa, where he recently graduated from UI. He is married, has a son and a daughter, and loves the south coast of Oregon. He is a novelist and a writer of poetry, in addition to various other projects. He is also co-host of the weekly podcast The Movie Show, with Elijah Brubaker. A google search brings up tons of poetry and other things. Some interviews and a lot of podcasting.

As an author, Ray's work can be found in magazines like Pank and Aesthetica, and in hundreds of other publications across two dozen countries. His poetical fugue theory has been published in several places and his early work also appeared (with excellent company) in The Book of Hopes and Dreams, a charity anthology edited by Dee Rimbaud, out of Scotland.

Ray has been nominated for the the Best of the Web Award, as well as the Pushcart Prize on several occasions, and he is also a winner of the Adroitly Placed Word Award, for spoken word. His books are available for free.