Vinny Markham and his gang of mates are troubled. They have discovered their new neighbour might have a very dark past. And they don't know what to do about it. But they know they should do something. But with their only role-models the itinerant fathers they are at once ashamed and in awe of, there is something inevitable about the dark, destructive, and lawless nature of the boys' response. Recalling Graham Greene's 'The Destructors', and William Golding's 'The Lord of the Flies', Aine Cabaye's dystopian short story about the destructive power of evil transports Homer's 'Odyssey' to a...
Vinny Markham and his gang of mates are troubled. They have discovered their new neighbour might have a very dark past. And they don't know what to do...