The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell

The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnellA weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul tempered and foul mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor . . . well, that job is a revolving door and

award-winning poet

thinks he sleeps with other women

And a family coming together for Christmas struggle to skate over the lingering darkness caused by the very ordinary brutality of a troubled husband and father

who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world - was not a villain

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And what about love

gender politics

sexual power

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