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To Florida teen Damian Spitz,
the only thing more fun than getting shunned by the Jehovah's Witnesses
is dragging his friends with him to Armageddon. Tattooing each of them
with a Smurf - the cartoon character the jay-dubs are notoriously afraid
of - he descends into a life of pure punk pleasure. The dream mutates
when Damian unwittingly forms a cult of his own, and a suicide leads him
to explore desires he's only barely ready to handle. Tattoo
This Madness In is a study in sexual transgression, a community manifesto,
and a middle finger lifted high.
The Critics:
"The ink from Tattoo This Madness In stains in the best
way imaginable. Cox writes in the same manner that the needle-man at the
core of his drama sins: outrageously, calculatingly, urgently. He kicked
my ass all over the place."
- Brian Ames, author of Eighty-Sixed
"Tattoo This Madness In is smart, subversive, and intense.
I was almost mad when it ended, so I immediately read it again."
- Scott Heim, author of We Disappear and Mysterious Skin,
now a major motion picture
 The
Author:
Daniel Allen Cox is the author of the story collection Episodes of
Deflated Magic (Fever Press, 2004). His fiction has been published
in Filling Station, Maisonneuve, Word Riot and other magazines,
and appears in the anthology Year of the Thief (Thieves Jargon
Press, 2006). Daniel is the Artist Spotlight Editor of Outsider Ink
magazine and has written interviews for the seminal punk newspaper
New York Waste.
To contact the author or to join the discussion, visit www.DFmeNOW.blogspot.com.
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