The Mortal Creeps

"My skulls were staring at me..."

The Mortal Creeps is a new novel by Aaron Scott

Zane Eldridge is a man obsessed by the idea that it is his own perceptions that control what is good and right in the universe.

He is obsessed by the fact that all the universe is interpreted by the physical instrument of the brain, all the chemical and electricity that create thought and perception. If it is all just chemical reactions, is it still real? Or is everything as arbitrary as his own decisions of what ideas to believe and what to reject?

He believes himself to be the decider of all truth, as he cannot see anything else that can convince him otherwise. He has decided that the concept of love is illusion, except in the case of how he loves his cousin and only friend, Julie. He impulsively judges what is right and wrong, realizing that in some cases he is going along with society's conditioning but feeling it is not important because, ultimately, nothing matters except survival.

WARNING: this novel contains strong language.

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"I got close to home. The drive down the back lane was quite something. I am the one that decides when something is quite something and shit if the drive down the back lane wasn’t. The doors of my rustmobile almost scraped garage doors like ten times.

Garbage can lids rolled and cats jumped out of the way, going rreeeoww! It was all cartoony. It was Looney Tunes.

When I swerved in behind our house I narrowly missed destroying or at least scratching Tiff’s car, which was parked behind our house and looking blackish and serious and new and good for the environment. And all that great shit."