Ordinary World

Those seated in the first ten rows of morality will be offended

"A modest proposal for the 21st century ..."

This is the future.

Democratic institutions in the West have collapsed under the weight of the public's fear of terrorist attack. In uncertain times what people crave is the firm smack of fatherly dictatorship and the Church has stepped in to ensure a firm smack is exactly what the people get.

A world now betrothed to organized religion has nevertheless allowed big business to become even more debauched. GORDON A. GARGOYLE, owner of Recovered Unwanted Meat Deals, (RUM Deals) UK, a manufacturer of reprocessed meat run-off, has secured a concession to exploit the virgin market of producing burgers made from aborted babies.

TOHON SEHSA finds himself twisting in the financial clutches of his distressingly pregnant ex-girlfriend, MARY IRELAND. He risks prosecution under the Parental Irresponsibility Labour Law, (the PILL), unless he can persuade the intractable and obstinate hag to list their child as "an Act of God" on the birth certificate. Tohon, with the help of his colourful friend BOATER, a man of complicated personal history, take jobs at the hellish foetus burger factory in an effort to pay her off.

Meanwhile, Gargoyle and Mary concoct a jaw-dropping marketing wheeze that even makes the concept of Foetus Burgers seem marginally less shocking.

Can anybody stop this? Well, with the seemingly random interventions of our two desperate friends, a child-smitten romantic, the world's most feeble (and ginger) terrorist, a cancer-ridden devil dog, a curious little blue car and a mysteriously knowing Pub landlord, somebody may already have.

Mornings are hateful.

Afternoons are quite pleasant.

It's just another day in an Ordinary World.

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