Brian Fogarty

During a brutally hot late summer, a luscious, ever-so-slightly mutilated teenage boy goes AWOL to the seaside in search of his identity. Philip wants to find acceptance in Brighton as a lesbian.

Kronk, a solitary agoraphobic who spies on young girls and frames parts of bodies he cuts from girly mags begins scoping Philip from his window when, morphed by make-up, a skimpy little dress and heels into Phyllis, he/she sashays to a phone box across the square where he lives. He calls her up in the box, blags her he’s a 100 miles away in Cambridge and dialled a wrong number, hooks her into making regular telephone trysts with him by inducing her to talk about herself and the stuff a normal conversation never allows.

Jack Broker is a private dick hired by Philip’s parents to find their child. Broker’s search is going nowhere until he meets the Kid in a gay night club. The Kid is an occult medium and with his smack-fuelled Remote Viewing seances offers to help Broker trace the runaway. He begins to alert Broker to the mortal danger Philip is in from the obsessed stranger scanning/stalking him.

….Filthy, frightening, Metaphysical, profound, The Feeders is a beautiful and sinister journey that takes the reader to the core of these characters’ unspeakable lives….