Story titles in Medicine Show:
Prologue: How to Remember the Past
The Man With The Hat
Civitale Sundermine
Dogs of War
On the Seventh Day They Fled
Fistula
Dining Out in Postwar Europe
Lily of the Valley
Intermission: How to Live in the Moment
Paladin
How to be Impotent and Successful for the Heroic Age
Freedomhowler's Folly
Dream of a Whistle Pig
Epilogue: How to See the Future
Story titles in Freedomhowler,etc:
The Lady in the Bonnet
An Occurrence at Lille
Lunatics on Pogo Sticks
Hell Hath No Fury
One Morning Outside Seville
The Sweetest Fruit
How to Be a Crusader: FAQ
Gedon
Bernhard, Dreaming
The Fourth Gift
The Eleventh Hour
Twelfth Night
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The Liquid Laughter Project
Edited by Heidi Lampietti
The Liquid Laughter Project was a collaborative writing project in which twelve authors, given a set of characters and a premise, wrote a full-length novel in the round-robin style, with each author producing one chapter per month. Medicine Show is the first volume of the project, and was written over the time period of May 2005 to May 2006. The second volume, Freedomhowler, Finchley, and Co., was written from November 2006 to November 2007.
Rating: IC (mature themes, mild violence and language)
Volume 1: Medicine Show
Trade paperback, 5 x 7.25, 284pp
ISBN 9781892619099
$10.00
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Medicine Show is set is Europe in the aftermath of World War I, and follows the adventures of Professor Bernhard Freedomhowler's Internationally Acclaimed Traveling Exhibition of Medicinal Wonderment: a medicine show featuring a highly unusual troupe of players, including Norris the reluctantly heroic Dog-Man; a six-foot-seven, four-hundred-pound horse goddess named Heather; the immortal sharpshooter Dan "Doc" Evans; Grenadine, the medium of questionable ability; and Calliope the Whistle-Pig. In these twelve chapters, the book's twelve authors have concocted a complex brew of (among other things) firebreathing impresarios, post-war devastation, werewolves, Nordic Gods, bizarre plots, and slapstick comedy.
Volume 2: Freedomhowler, Finchley & Co.
Trade paperback, 5 x 7.25, 242pp
ISBN 9781892619129
$10.00
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Volume 2 continues of saga of Professor Bernhard Freedomhowler's Internationally Acclaimed Traveling Exhibition of Medicinal Wonderment. In this installment, the troupe has been joined by the apothecary Lady Follie Finchley, as they travel from France to Spain, across the Strait of Gibraltar and over to the Other Side, on a mission to collect the secret items of power that will foil Satan's plot to destroy free will. All while getting sidetracked by (among other things) demons on pogo sticks, Parsifal the Canadian Knight of the Round Table, the true tale of Santa Claus, and the tea-drinking Queen of Hell. It's a tough way to make a living.
Meet some of the authors:
M.K. Hobson C.L. Russo
David Reagan Ekaterina Sedia
Heidi Cyr Dan Barlow
Bruce Taylor Lisa Mantchev
Mikal Trimm Shawn Feakins |