Matthew Vandenberg
3) Mokum
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You're a reporter who recently arrived in Amsterdam, fresh from a curious throng in Dubai.
Your gear is stolen, and you get lost; very lost.
CHOOSE your way around Mokum's underbelly.
This is the third sequel to one of many alternate stories from the novel FREE LATIFA (following on from piece #148). The first was X BENCH. The second was AMÉRIÇAISIAN PSYCe.
This is MOKUM 1.
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This is a story, told through rap.
A young man is working in a suitcase store, and trying to sell suitcases.
But, he wants to talk about more than bags.
Written at the beginning of the Trump era, this series of verses is heavily political.
Is it set in Connaught Place, New Delhi or Bondi Junction, Sydney? You decide. It doesn't matter.
There's a sequel to this, that's in prose, if that's you're thing. So maybe get that instead.
5) West
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In November 2020 Kanye West becomes the 46th President of Amériçaisia (formally the United States).
The new Australian PM - Anthony Albanese - is pressured by Kanye to nominate Matt as the next Australian Ambassador to Amériçaisia.
This is Matt's story divided into a series of alphabetical progress reports addressed to President West.
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Below a famous supermarket in Sydney is a Bigger Brother house where people come from all around the world to talk about global affairs to a live audience: the people in the supermarket above.
But the housemates don't know about COVID and what's going down, like jokes and prices, in the world beyond their walls. However, you'll really wanna CATCH what they're saying about affairs here, like your breath, because this book covers so many issues it's...
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Hill is a lobbyist for Waytheon, who's a lot like Patrick Bateman but obsessed with state-sanctioned genocide.
This is the second sequel to one of many alternate stories from the novel FREE LATIFA (following on from piece #126). The first was X BENCH.
This is AMÉRIÇAISIAN PSYCe.
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As the Australian ambassador to Amériçaisia (formally the United States), you decide to take a break in Dubai. But there's no escaping your intriguing title.
Meanwhile, a princess is in distress, an obstetrician needs some relief from her stressful occupation, an emir is ruthless, a blind man is switching gears, and who wants you dead for pushing the emancipation of women?
You just want to buy an island off the shore of Dubai, but you have CHOICES...
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Following the nuclear attack on Sydney at the end of 2011, the political climate in the United States becomes very heated.
Kim Jong-un is responsible for the attack and now it is Barack Obama's intent to retaliate and hit North Korea where it hurts.
Unfortunately, this would spell the start of World War III - a nuclear war.
In the political shadows, somewhere in southern Utah, near the border with Nevada, live a peculiar Honeybee-Mormon-Hippie...