Showing results for "Meat" in Literature & Fiction

In Abyrne, a strange town surrounded by a wasteland, the eating of meat is a sacred obligation. The town’s strict laws are brutally enforced by a ruthless Baron and a merciless Bishop. Adored by the townsfolk is Richard Shanti, Abyrne’s famous bolt-gunner – the most efficient slaughterhouse worker in living memory. In private, however, Shanti is a gentle man; a husband, and father to twin girls. The growing guilt about his murderous job weighs him down. Beguiled by a rebellious heretic, Shanti uncovers the harrowing truth behind Abyrne’s history.

In the spirit of the shot-on-video horror of the '80s, Meat Photo is a transgressive, absurd horror comedy and the love child of Andersen Prunty and C. V. Hunt. Meat photos are the hottest trend. Everyone has one or is willing to do anything to get one. It’s all anyone can talk about on social media. Grab your meat photo. Wear it like a mask. Join the Great Migration to the local Dollar General.

Ishar Singh, fails to make love to his mistress Kulwant. She suspects him of infidelity and in a fit of jealousy stabs him with his own dagger. Ishar Singh, confesses his crime before he dies. But that was way bigger that what Kulwant had imagined. This is a story of the physical, psychological...

Jane, a struggling filmmaker in New York, is given her big break, a chance to travel through the United States to produce a Japanese television program sponsored by American meat exporters. Meanwhile, Akiko, a painfully thin Japanese woman struggling with bulimia, is being pressured by her child-craving husband to put some meat on her bones, literally.

Dorte, a young doctor, desperately tries to find a cure for her sister. It's a race against time, and it's only the beginning of another day in hell. Dan has reached Holger's house but is forced to leave it again in order to help his father. But it's not only the zombies trying to get in, and soon the survivors find themselves in a bloody struggle for safety. The infection is now spreading across nation borders, and it looks like none of the governments will be able to contain it. Is it too late to save the world?

Dash made bad decisions in the past, ones that he paid for behind bars. He left his old life behind, but the memories linger. He finds a passion for food and sells his smoked meats and sausages at the Heartcraft Market. Evan loves his job as a sonographer, but sometimes, the weight of his work...

 Welcome to the challenge. You're an absolute nobody here - nothing; a zero; a useless lump of meat filled with bones. You're but a delicious morsel for your antagonists and those who got lucky at the start. The only goal you can have in your miserable existence is to kick the bucket as soon as possible. 

Weird things lurk in the dark streets of London in 1925. After a bizarre shooting incident, Harry Stubbs, former heavyweight boxer and sometime debt collector, is coerced into helping a visitor from Shanghai. Mr Yang, an agent of the feared Si Fan Society with unusual powers, is seeking information about a dead man.

Private Eye Chester Drum is pulled into a deadly game when he witnesses his mentor, Gil Sprayregan, get hit by a speeding car. This moment shakes Drum to his core. Sprayregan was the one who gave him a shot in the tough world of private investigation. Now, fueled by a mix of loyalty and rage, Drum is determined to find out who did this. His investigation leads him down a twisted path filled with a scandal that stretches all the way to the Indian Embassy. As secrets unravel, Drum finds himself in dangerous territory, facing threats from all sides. Can he unravel the mystery before it’s too ...

Mother, Mother, Meat concludes the Hanging Hill Lane story, the final part in a dark and bloody fantasy horror set in modern-day Cornwall. Following on from the events that ended book two, The Third Hunter, the finale takes Daphne through more torment and through the depths of her mind looking for a way to win.

“In the phenomenal Organ Meats, two friends are bound by a red string, dog bloodlines, and the violence that is being a girl” (Ms. magazine)—from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Gods of Want. “Organ Meats possesses something of the febrile intensity of...

Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman's lessons and a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style.

A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being and The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut...

Annie Chapman led a hard, lower class life in filthy 19th century London. Late in life, circumstances and her choices led her to earn her crust by solicitation. After a bruising brawl with another woman over money and a man, she lost her lodgings and found herself sleeping rough. That dangerous turn of events delivered her into the hands of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

They plucked him out of his own familiar world to kill him with extreme prejudice. This is what always happens to those who are just food in the bowl for someone with a better luck. But consider yourself warned: he is a very special food - the kind that eats you right back. Think again whether you really want to come and get him. And if you still do, just stay put. He'll come for you himself.

Meat Team is an atmospheric and experimental combination of literature, sound collage, and music Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andy's first (and last) shift at burger joint Rosie's ended in a bloody blaze. Five years later, the truth is finally coming out. Fresh Meat is a faux true crime horror-comedy audio drama. Fresh Meat is written, directed, and edited by Jack Fulmin. All related graphics/art are also by Jack Fulmin. Script editing by Daisy McNamara.

The city of River’s Edge has been quarantined due to a rodent borne rabies outbreak. But it quickly becomes clear to the citizens that the infection is something much, much worse than rabies.... The townsfolk are attacked and fed upon by packs of the living dead. Labeling the infected residents “bees” for their tendency to travel in swarms, Gavin and Benny attempt to survive the chaos in River’s Edge while making their way north in search of sanctuary. No one knows what waits outside the quarantined zone....

Maria Reyes has fought all her life, to graduate high school on time, to go to college, to get the degree she's always wanted. Yet she still wants more; she wants to go back to school and become a nurse in order to help even more people and, to that end, she’ll show up at her ma and pa pharmacy job and get by day to day. At least she has her work wife, Kim, to help pass the time. So as the normal, typical boring day starts to take an odd, if not horror movie cliche, turn she can only grit her teeth and gear up for another fight. At least she won’t have to fight this fight alone.

Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, is a rambling traffic-choked metropolis, bursting at the seams with people striving to earn a living on its mean streets. While Nairobi has every appearance of a fast-growing, modern African city with the mushrooming skyscrapers and superhighways, the city possesses a dark underbelly. Dog Meat Samosa delves into the bowels of Nairobi’s crowded urban backstreets to paint a gritty picture of its underworld, to describe the human experience within this once glorious “City in the Sun” that has since metamorphosed into a cutthroat hustlers’ paradise.