Posted by Joshua Skye on Wednesday, August 7, 2013
RECOMMENDED!!!
Jimmy
has showed up for Death Panel Duty, a requisite for citizens in this eerily
hysterical glimpse into a skewed future America.
Kim
Flowers, the author of “No Turning Back,” has created an interesting parody of
conservative paranoia in the surreal, conspiratorial tale, “Death Panel.” It is
at once so over-the-top it’s hysterical, but also frighteningly indicative of
the real-life beliefs of the fringe right-wing types like Glenn Beck, Alex
Jones, and Phyllis Schlafly. It is that truth that renders the story so
disturbing. Yes, there are people out there that actually believe this kind of
Tin Hat absurdity, people that confuse liberal philosophy with right-wing
fascism, conservatives that fail to see the despotism in their ideology or the
inherent hypocrisy and chauvinism of it. And the fact that they generally
misunderstand their political counterparts is utterly lost to them.
Flowers
captures the desperate and delusional fears of the fringe right very well, so
well in fact that followers of Beck, Jones, and Schlafly would most likely
fail to see the story for the parody it is and instead latch onto it as a
cautionary manifesto forewarning an evil liberally-dominated future. Like the
ideologues it mocks, “Death Panel” is none-too-subtle but it is ominously
acute, competently written, and a must-read for fans of political satire.
“Death
Panel” is offered FREE on the publisher’s website. Be sure to check out Kim
Flowers’ debut novel “No Turning Back” and other publications from JMS Books.
"DEATH PANEL" by KIM FLOWERS
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