Stories from Arlington

Enter a world of dream and nightmare on the streets of a place called Arlington…Arlington’s a city with many things gruesome, fantastical and wondrous glinting off its signposts and reflected in the dark buildings of Balineburr St., or the Collinghair District. Join writer Cornelius Fortune as he takes you through a journey of myths reexamined and new creatures evolved, skillfully realized by illustrator, Abel Ramirez.



You will meet a strange cast of characters who have made Arlington their permanent address: there’s Xavier, a male prostitute, whose insipid life is about to take a turn for the weird when he meets Moon and her husband Jim, who offer him something a bit different and quite old; Ivan Dolcetta, failed pianist, second-rate composer, who leads the Arlington Symphony Orchestra through a cursed piece of sheet music, and the untold story of music and its parents; Tristan Ultherie, a fourteen year-old boy who waits for his sister in the rain every year in the same café (though she’s been dead for nearly three years); a children’s game of musical chairs, and a new look at coloring books and crayons that promises to make parents think twice before buying. And for no extra charge readers will treated to a B-movie entitled “Meat Left out on a Kitchen Tabletop” about a boy and his zombie lover. Need we say more? Buy this book and you’ll be sure to be transported out of this, and into another world that will astound, intrigue, and make you question your own reality. Close the curtains. Lock the doors. And welcome, to Arlington…