About Delightmares
It’s 1994. Kurt Cobain has just died. Nineteen-year-old poet and ex-carnie Martin Hemlock has moved to Nashville, where he quickly befriends His Assholiness Pope Jas and Chuckie The Plague. Martin helps these two punk-rock gurus start a faux religion: The First Interplanetary Church of The Immaculate Deception. The goal is to make a mockery of all organized religions, and begs a question—is nothing sacred worth a damn?
As the church grows in size and infamy, recruiting more followers of Chuckle called Plaguists, religion turns to war on two fronts. Martin must navigate Nazis, preachers, and murderous Vanderbilt kids in Cadillacs, all while giving outrageous sermons and throwing the wildest parties imaginable. On top of all that: will Martin ever sell enough acid to make it back to Chicago?
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Michael S. Gatlin is a fifty year old pirate, still surfing the seas of adventure. He owns and operates Owl & Whale, a bitters / cocktail consulting company in Portland Maine. He moved there from New York City where he owned and operated the restaurant / bar Verlaine on the Lower East Side. He moved to New York from Montana where he cleared trails for the National Park Service. After high school Michael joined a traveling carnival and drove from Vancouver to Quebec City operating a reverse bungee jump ride known as The Ejection Seat. After that he helped start a mock religion known as The First Interplanetary Church of The Immaculate Deception. His first book has just been published. Delightmares is about his time spent in Nashville helping that gang of punk rock misfits assemble a faux cult.