Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by The Fall

Mechanical ducks, shark women that taste of liquorice, perverted sexual shenanigans in cramped office spaces, double-crossing Nazi apologists, bald-headed cultural subversives and celebrity deer-culling - this is just a glimpse into the wonderful and frightening world of Perverted by Language: Fiction inspired by The Fall. Twenty-three writers choose a song by The Fall and use it as inspiration for a short story.

Contributors include: Michel Faber, Niall Griffiths, Nick Johnstone, Stewart Lee, Rebecca Ray, Nicholas Royle and Helen Walsh.

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As a teenager growing up in a small northern satellite town I came to dread those hours between 4am and 10am on Sunday mornings when all the post club parties had petered out. My parents were under the impression I was staying at friends so I was forced to wander round the empty town centre, loiter at the bus station or walk up and down the canal. I'd be all anxious and jittery as the drugs wore out of my system and afraid of the silence, I'd spend these hours looking for signs of life, lights on in windows, a homeless person in the church yard, the milk float. When I moved to the city that period of nothingness before dawn was shorter, easier to deal with, but it still haunted
me all the same.

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