His descriptions of the Filii Tosti abound in creativity: a bodybuilder with a goldfish head, a wiener dog with an ashtray body, and endless other crazy varieties. He forges a strong bond between the reader and the main character, investing you in the story to the last page. I am familiar with James’s short fiction, and I have to say The Drip Drop Prophet is certainly his masterpiece to date. The main character accepts the bizarreness around him without question-one of my favorite approaches in surrealist writing. James uses the bizarre as a tool to tell the story rather than flashing the reader with a bunch of random images. The novella starts out weird and grows into something positively nutty. He is only the first of many of the mutant Filii Tosti, who have come to worship Lucille as their “Creatrix.” Things soon grow out of hand and out of the main character’s control. They share the passion of new lovers until a strange man named Darby shows up on his doorstep. Pulling us in with his unique, engaging voice, Austin James uses classic bizarro whimsy to give us a novella you won’t want to put down.Īt the center of the story is our unnamed main character who falls in love with the kitchen appliance he names Lucille.
The Drip Drop Prophet is a story of love, lust, and loss, all tied together with a remarkable ending–except in this 80-page novella, it is the love between a man and his toaster oven. The Drip Drop Prophet & Other Stories by Austin James
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