Huckleberry Dreaming

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>In a world strangely reminiscent of 1950s America ardent pacifist Carney Caldwell is arrested for allegedly punching his best buddy into a coma but he has no clear recollection of what happened that night. Following a week in jail he awakes in a hospital suffering from shock. Pumped full of calming medications he reflects on the bizarre series of events that led to his predicament: the gradual disintegration of his beloved childhood gang the Arch Angels his unrequited love for Dakota their ill-fated dalliance with illegal substances and his slow descent into a black hole of mental instability and delusions.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>An enigmatic radio salesman visits Carney's bedside and under the guise of a new treatment called 'distraction therapy' tells him the tale of a shy orphan boy named Doran who lived on the planet's other continent. The story contains uncanny parallels to Carney's own and as it unfolds he begins to question not only his identity but everything he used to believe and hold dear about his planet.</span></p><p></p>