Moth, moon, masturbation, meteor, murder: these are the elements that set Josh Bells exquisitely esoteric The Houseboat'Veronica' sailing through its black-haired, witch-charmed gales. Straddling the line between horror and beauty, Bell's mythologically time-stellar protagonists, riddled with tabooed sexual desires and psychedelic insect cigarettes, are at once original, poetic, and viscerally immaterial. A book your minds heartbeat wont forget.Vi Khi Nao, author of Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche The diamond-pointed, rapture-wrought prose in this alluringly darkled erotic fantasia conducts the reader into the lucid dreamery of a nautical counterworld wherein the day had a pelt, the night sometimes had scales. The Houseboat 'Veronica' is a seductive visionary debut in fiction from a singular poet.Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted
A dark surrealistic tale of shape-shifting characters and striking imagery: a compelling read.Stanley Crawford, author of Seed and Intimacy
