Naughty Sweet Boy

When your computer screen turns into a vortex and pulls your brain through a cream rainbow swirl, you'll see the world that floats under the world of normal things. The short stories in Ryan Robert Mullen's Naughty Sweet Boy capture the extraordinary in the ordinary. In ?Business End? and ?Please Desist in Using My Skull As a Cup to Defecate In,? Mullen takes the soul-sucking monotony of the workplace and reveals the primal spirit in every one of us anaesthetized paper-pushers. Ambitious childhood imagination comes alive in ?Electric Gordon? and ?A Little Shinier.' The unaffected tenderness of ?Actual Size? and ?Passing Timebomb? shows Mullen's capacity to peel away layers of wounds and stare directly into the fragility of human emotion.Naughty Sweet Boy is a work of vivid craftsmanship and startlingly honesty.