Trap Doors
The trap door opened and a little man wearing a green visor stuck his head out. “Next?” he said.
This had an impact on my idea of how trap doors work. I though you fell thru them unexpectedly just when you thought things were starting to go your way.
I started to walk around the trap door, but the little man reached out and grabbed my ankle. “Where do you think you’re going?” he said.
“I’m not next,” I said, and he said, “That’s what they all say. Climb on in here.”
“No, no,” I said. “I’m heading over there.”
“Over there where?” he said. “Look around.”
I did, and he was right. There was no over there, there was nothing, not even space, just this open trap door made of weathered wood and the little man in the green visor who had hold of my ankle.
“I think I’ll go back where I came from,” I said, and tried to yank my foot loose, but he held on tight.
He leaned into the darkness down under the trap door. “He’s looking for options,” he said, then he stuck his head back out and smiled.
HCOLOM PRESS is the heir to Vagabond Press, which began as a main player in the Mimeo Revolution of the Sixties and continued publishing right into the jaws of the new millennium. HCOLOM PRESS embodies the spirit of Vagabond Press, retooled for the times we live in.
Hcolom is Moloch spelled backwards. Moloch is an Old Testament deity to which children were sacrificed, a practice society still engages in with increased enthusiasm. Consumerism is the new Moloch, manifesting itself like cancer in war, politics, the arts and religion, in every nook and cranny of human endeavor, draining the intrinsic beauty out of life and mutilating the innocence and magic of childhood with its commercial meat hook. HCOLOM PRESS intends to publish books that by their nature repudiate this pernicious force–novels, poetry, children’s books and books that transcend genre.
Our launch book, in June of 2006, was John Bennett’s novel, Tire Grabbers, a fable of sorts, a reality book rooted in the fantasy of our times, the story of the coming of Moloch and the children who rise up in rebellion against it.
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