Echo Detained

Joshua Cochran
218 pages (November 2007); 902KB download
Fractious Press; ISBN: 978-0976420330

DESCRIPTION

A satirical, black-humored tale concerning terrorism and illegal renditions, Echo Detained revolves around Caleb Nell, an everyday American, who is snatched off the streets after another boring day at his copy shop job and whisked away into the bowels of a secreted, corporate-run prison. There, he finds himself succumbing to the ludicrous and logical rationale of an extended "War on Terror."

From delicious meals, to forced prostate exams, to guards that seem to love him as much as hate him, Caleb tries to make sense of his newfound facility.

With only the confused wanderings of his mind, interactions with a strange array of guards and doctors, and the writings of an off-kilter and very dead philosopher, Caleb soon comes to terms with not only his own incomprehensible circumstance, but the very nature of humanity's collective existence.