Teaser 1(viii), so watch me now – for Rohan Quine’s “Hallucination in Hong Kong”

But there you nestle, you who toppled from the giant when he fell, where you squiggled and you bickered for the crannies—yes you did! Cower now, then, and shake to hear that voice stride infernal and divine across the wastes of metal sky above the framework where you hide; for as it enters you, diffuses, throbs inside you like a drug you cut with ice and powdered glass before you shot it, every shrivelled twist inside you will be infiltrated—sternum, ribcage, heart and eyes! My spider-movements’ legs are bass guitar: its claws are snouts, to rear and lick you where you shiver… I glimpse a sudden image of the singer on the monitor, his skinny leaping body as his echo thunders merciless, immense and redly gashing on the blackness of the music. My own voice and actions mate with his and ride upon him, cut him open, mingle with his blood—ram him through and flow around, assimilate him whole, to multiply eleven-fold the ecstasy and agony he stirs. I see a close-up, shafting out across the multitude my singing mouth, my eyes, my leering face, my open head and gullet, shrieking guts and arteries. Yelps of guitar shoot up the corners of the sky in branching clumps and flower in umbrella sprays of yellow. Bass shakes the bones in the boulders of the sea, while the hills blaze hollow eyes and groan! Heads and bodies bubble in the distance all around me. Don’t you hear me now? Don’t you feel me down inside you, you before me, every one of you? D’you kid yourself that you’ll escape the damage I intend? I think you do! So watch me now…

For more about "Hallucination in Hong Kong" by Rohan Quine, see

https://www.rohanquine.com/hallucination-in-hong-kong

For some great reviews of it, see

https://www.rohanquine.com/press-media/the-novellas-reviews-media/

To watch the complete chapter from which this little teaser was excerpted, or to find any of the three chapters that constitute the novella’s video-book format, see

https://www.rohanquine.com/h-h-k-video-book/hallucination-in-hong-kong-chapter-1-video-book/

For links to all of these short teasers, see

https://www.rohanquine.com/h-h-k-video-book/short-teasers-for-hallucination-in-hong-kong-video-book/

And to pick it up from whichever retailer you may prefer, the retailers’ links for the audiobook are at

https://www.rohanquine.com/buy/hallucination-in-hong-kong-novella-audiobook/

and for the paperback at

https://www.rohanquine.com/buy/the-platinum-raven-and-other-novellas-paperback/

and for the ebook at

https://www.rohanquine.com/buy/hallucination-in-hong-kong-novella-ebook/