Eat Your Keyboard

by Zak A. Ferguson

Have you felt the lure of T H E P R O G R A M M E Has T H E S Y S T E M worked its way through to your greatest most secreted depths? Or is it still massaging, kneading, soaking into your subconscious, into your extended being. Into your key-eat- boarD...Your.... THE BOOK YOU HOLD IS SOMETHING ONE COULD MISCONSTRUE AS A LIE. IT IS THE TRUTH. THIS IS LIVING PROOF OF A HIGHER CALLING, OF A BETTER WAY OF LIVING. ONE COULD ANTICIPATE AN ANSWER TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS. WE DON'T ANSWER...WE HELP YOU GAIN A TRUTH. HERE, DEAR READER YOU'RE GIVEN...snippets of experiences, one right after the next, all piling in a heap. Slowly, as they all decompose together, they will begin to form something. Again, not so much a story, but events that are all related by something, united to "shine a light" on something greater than the individual events. What are WE as a species shining a light on by our actions? Like scattering bones and the casting of entrails to seek some truth out of the random, through its "chaos" , its telling YOU something, telling truths about ourselves and what we, you, they, them- collectively create. Writer Zak A. Ferguson takes his readers on a rip-roaring rampage through the madness of one's mind. With this debut novella we, the audience, are subjected to literary experiments that take us from one existence to another, in flashes, explosions that tear the brain apart, leaving each piece to grow into its own character - one after another, they grow into agents of pure chaos. Their existence - a manic slideshow shown at 100mph. Sit back, open your mind and EAT YOUR KEYBOARD!

198 pages, Paperback

First published April 29, 2017

About the author

I write. I confound. I exhume. I savour. I loathe. I confuse. I gorge. I muse. I love. I obsess. I struggle. I write. I read. I watch. I write. I write. I write. I write....
Therapy is not the process, its whats laid out on the page.

I write only to explore and challenge readers.

I am currently based in the seaside town Brighton.

If I must label my work by genre , I write within the New New Wave of Literature.

What does that mean?
It encapsulates, freestyle, prose poem, transgressive fiction, bizarro, science fiction, noir, pulp. Many other genres that are there to mould and abuse.

Reviews

[Leo Robertson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interview with the author here!!
https://soundcloud.com/losingtheplotp...

An insane and ferocious SOC barrage, an esoteric trip through the shattered meaning and meaninglessness of a hyperspeed culture.

A beautiful little anti-novella from a cool af indie publisher!

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book. Such a heavy book where you float on a sea of prose that engulfs the mind like a trip of acid and bowl after bowl of great weed. I will definitely be reading more from thus author.

[Donald Armfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ferguson taps out a beat generation across the damn KEYBOARD. This book is like a scab that you keeping picking at so it will bleed some more.
All thrown together into The System that only leaves you poisoned by The Programme.
I wouldn't doubt this man shared the same pillow drool with William Burroughs.
DESTROY YOUR KEYBOARD!

[M.R. Tapia · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great and exhilarating read! Like reading from the Beat Generation with them having written on a deadly cocktail of uppers and downers!

[Danforth Spitzer · Rating 5 out of 5]

A current favorite of mine, this should be an Audio Book!
The more I read it the more it reminds me of a mix of the Futurists & the Beats.
Very bold, very jarring, at times it feels like reading a collage(but in a good way).