Psychotomimetic Peacocks
During
the rainy winter nights of Portland, Oregon a group of young people
live well enough: they have jobs, they drink coffee, they smoke
cigarettes, they read books and eat psychedelic mushrooms. In a spirit
of noir, not dissimilar to the long winter nights of the Pacific
Northwest Psychotomimetic Peacocks is a sound somewhere between a scream, a peacock’s call and the incessant rain.In
Northwest Portland, a neighborhood where anything can and does happen,
an unlikely group of young people bond over coffee and cigarettes and
news of the “bedroom smother,” the local serial killer. Every night this
group of neighborhood kids convene over the day’s events: parties,
tarot card readings, murder and recounted tales of trespassing. Each
page moves the characters closer to the killer, and the killer moves
each page closer to the characters until the final blow in the bedroom.206 Pages. 45,000 Words.