Dropcloth Angels is a dark comedy, an abstract American road novel – picaresque and philosophical; graphic and gory.
Zane Ellis is a renaissance man. An actor. A painter. A lover of life’s mysteries. A cannibal. Zane revels in the flawed beauty of the human condition. Restless and fighting his demons, he embarks upon a quest for perfection.
Zoe Beaupre is a proud party girl. She’s come home to pay a long overdue visit to her reclusive sister. Her goal is simply to kick back, catch up, and have a little fun. But when her sister falls for a mysterious new beau, fun swiftly turns to murder.
Dropcloth Angels follows the adventures of Zoe, along with her guardian angel—disguised as a foul-mouthed, stuffed purple monkey—and a rag-tag band of AWOL mental patients, as she tracks Zane across America’s Midwest. Along the way, Zoe’s search for answers reveals a strange underworld of Internet snuff films, murder-faking clowns – and, above all, a cannibal’s love.
Although the novel is often shockingly explicit, the underlying theme (running through it like a cure for its own lewdness) is hope: hope for change, hope for love, hope for fellowship.
Dropcloth Angels is complete at 115k-ish words. peace-out.