The Anatomist's Tale

by Tauno Biltsted

Overview

Glorious Marshalsea! The cells here - slick with algae and vomit, sweaty with the resigned terror of their occupants - have seen the end of many rogues and more than a few innocents. Born into abject poverty in the British Empire, our narrator aspires to a better life as a ship's surgeon - until a tyrannical captain provokes a mutiny, forcing him into a life of piracy and eventually to a tropical commune of maroons called New Madagascar. Told through a series of confessions to those who visit the narrator during his imprisonment at Marshalsea, The Anatomist's Tale relates one man's brush with the heady freedom of outlaws - and the price of returning to “civilization”.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941360347
Publisher:	Lanternfish Press
Publication date:	05/05/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Tauno Biltsted has been a cab driver, squatter on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, mediator and facilitator, and roustabout construction worker. His fiction has been published in Rosebud Magazine and the Akashic Books Mondays are Murder series, and his nonfiction has been published in World War 3 Illustrated, Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the IWW, and Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. He holds a master’s degree in International Relations.

Table of Contents

Rogues and Innocents; or, a Common Tragedy 1

God's Graceful Creatures; or, a Butcher's Tale 23

Rhinoceroses; or, the Shambles of Language 40

Sea Monster; or, a Confession 65

The Book of Nature; or, an Infernal Combination 82

Gentlemen of Fortune; or, a Golden Treacle 106

Shipmates; or, the Coordinates of Desire 126

The Chase; or, a Change of Skin 148

New Madagascar; or, a Brief Description of a Palenque Consisting of Maroons, Indians, and Pirates 169

Empire of Dreams; or, the Mechanics of Flight 198

Further Reading 223