The Houseboat Veronica

“Moth, moon, masturbation, meteor, murder: these are the elements that set Josh Bell’s exquisitely esoteric The Houseboat 'Veronica' sailing through its black-haired, witch-charmed gales. Straddling the line between horror and beauty, Bell's mythologically time-stellar protagonists, riddled with tabooed sexual desires and psychedelic insect cigarettes, are at once original, poetic, and viscerally immaterial. A book your mind’s heartbeat won’t forget.”
—Vi Khi Nao, author of Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche
 

“The diamond-pointed, rapture-wrought prose in this alluringly darkled erotic fantasia conducts the reader into the lucid dreamery of a nautical counterworld wherein “the day had a pelt, the night sometimes had scales.” The Houseboat 'Veronica' is a seductive visionary debut in fiction from a singular poet.”
—Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted

“A dark surrealistic tale of shape-shifting characters and striking imagery: a compelling read.”
—Stanley Crawford, author of Seed and Intimacy