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The Menstruating Mall
by Carlton Mellick III

Ten ridiculously stereotypical consumer victims (a yuppie, a housewife, a retiree, a jock, a bible thumper, a cowboy, a preppy, a gamer, a goth, and a white suburban gangsta) find themselves unable to leave the mall one day. There is nothing stopping them. The doors are unlocked. Other shoppers are able to come and go as they please. But for some inexplicable reason, these ten people have no willpower to pry themselves away from their shopping miasma. The mall closes, and they won't leave. Days pass, and they're still there, eating meals in the food court and sleeping in department store bedroom displays. Then they begin to die off, one by one, murdered by a mysterious killer, and they still won't allow themselves to escape.

That's when things really start to get weird...

"The Menstruating Mall" is both a modernized take on Luis Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel," and a parody of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." With illustrations by retard punk hero Food Fortunata.

"Carlton Mellick creates fascinating and intricate worlds out of meat, slime, sexuality, wire, and the kind of nightmares that make you laugh when you wake up, astonished at your own lizard brain's ability to freak yourself out. His prose will skewer you and roast you like the flabby marshmallow you are, alternating images of gorge-rising squalor and divine pagan transcendence. He gives me the heebie-jeebies, but I wouldn't stop reading for all the tea in Tokyo."
—Jemiah Jefferson, author of Wounds and Voice of the Blood

Carlton Mellick III has published 8 books of postmodern punk horror. He has had over 80 short stories published in magazines, chapbooks, and anthologies, including THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR 16. His first published novel, SATAN BURGER, is becoming a cult favorite among fringe lit and alternative culture circles, and has been the #1 bestselling horror novel at Amazon.com. He lives in Portland, OR, and online at www.avantpunk.com