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The Hills Are Alive With the Sound Of
Arachnids Prophetic? Tick Hill shows a defunct Homeland Security
still destroying what it is supposedly designed to protect. When the red, white and
blue ticks invented to protect freedom escape a secret government lab
and start eating people, the action and the black humor starts to drip from the pages. Tick Hill is an act of freedom: freedom from the
suppression of opinion, freedom from moral hypocrisy and false literary pretense, freedom
to celebrate liberty at a time when many Americans are ready to give it up to what a
Supreme Court Justice thinks is impending dictatorship. It’s about freedom from
fear in the herd and freedom to have fun! Tick Hill is a bawdy, horror-filled romp through the “Billy Eakins’ freakin’ writing’s
freaking, frightening—Tick Hill is bold,
wacky, weird and exciting. Read Tick Hill—Hick
Bill will thrill.” – Ken Rand, author of The
Golems of Laramie County “Tick Hill is
a warning to anyone who’s willing to trade individual freedoms for perceived
security. A worse-case scenario of what happens when a government out of control and
feeding on the public’s fear goes above and beyond to save us from an outside enemy,
all under the guise of doing it for our own good. It’s also a darkly
amusing, well-told tale of back woods meets city slicker in the
Tuesday, July 25th, 1006 -- The Denver Post.com "Tick Hill," by Billy Eakin (Yard Dog Press, 197 pages, $16) Billy Eakin's rollicking B-movie gross-out tale of killer insects is a lot of fun. Red, white and blue ticks built to protect us are using us for lunch. Mary Kiefer wasn't happy about her parents moving from California to Arkansas, and her first date with Bobby Joe Raymond Thornton isn't going well. She escapes the groping at the drive-in when Bobby Joe runs away, convulsing with blood flowing from all over his body. Mary is the only one who notices the tiny blue bugs escaping from the boy's body. The government project over the top of Tick Hill closed years ago. But something happened to the containment of the abandoned Homeland Security program. Very aggressive ticks with a fast life cycle are attaching themselves to people and not letting go. "Tick Hill" is grotesque and raunchy in the best meaning of those words. Fred Cleaver Science Fiction Columnist The Denver Post
Billy Eakin's rolicking B-movie gross-out tale of killer insects is a lot of fun. Red, white, and blue ticks built to protect us are using us for lunch...."Tick Hill" is grotesque and raunchy iun the best meaning of those words. |
