Every Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen, Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes
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Carlton Mellick III
Known for his cute, disturbing, and utterly absurd novels, cult author Carlton Mellick III returns with a tale of childhood love and spontaneous face explosions. Ethan is in love with the weird girl in school. The one with the twitchy eyes and spiders in her hair. The one who can't sit still for even a minute and speaks in an odd squeaky voice. The one they call Spiderweb. Although she scares all the other kids in school, Ethan thinks Spiderweb is the cutest, sweetest, most perfect girl in the world. But there's a problem. Whenever they go on a date at the Dairy Queen, her whole fucking face explodes. He's not sure why it happens. She just gets so excited that pressure builds under her skin. Then her face bursts, spraying meat and gore across the room, her eyeballs and lips landing in his strawberry sundae. At first, Ethan believes he can deal with his girlfriend's face-exploding condition. But the more he gets to know her, the weirder her condition turns out to be. And as their relationship gets serious, Ethan realizes that the only way to make it work is to become just as strange as she is. From the award-winning author of Sweet Story and The Haunted Vagina, comes a twisted love story that is as creepy as it is heart-warming.
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Author
Carlton Mellick III
Pages
122
Publisher
Eraserhead Press
Published Date
2016-04-06
ISBN
1621052214 9781621052210
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"4 stars, I guess? WHAT DID I JUST READ? This was by far the most bizarre thing I have ever read, I guess it fits its genre perfectly. I just kept expecting the wild things to top off and they don't. The moment you think you know what's going on, you get a face full of stomach dicks. It's still cute at the same time, under all of the weirdness is a tale of very much unrealistic love, but a love story nonetheless. I think that everything in the novella made sense while not making sense, that's what I liked the best about it. It paints pictures too, man does it ever paint pictures. I just hope I don't think about them too much before going to bed tonight... my dreams would be something else.
This is an adult novel, just not in a way I've read before. I was just kind of stupified the entire reading experience, with the occasional laugh at the sheer incredulity of it all. I think I can only handle fiction like this in small doses, and I think I'm full for a while now.
I don't know if I would recommend this, I had a fun time with it though."