A Story about Magic, Football and Zombies

Homage to Sir Terry Pratchett

Billy lives in the haunted castle of Blucherval on the donut-shaped planet Torus with three  ghosts: Rita, Antoine and The Baron. In spite of these colourful roommates, Billy is bored -let’s be clear about this: Billy is VERY bored. He also has the unfortunate habit of extreme absent-mindness while he is currently under the catastrophic natural process called Adolescence, which can be -and most often is- a major inconvenience. Especially when your rapidly growing body is tripping all over the place.

The only thing that can actually interest Billy is football, not your classic version, but Billy’s version, where players hold (and use) lethal weapons. And that is how his everyday life goes; bored, tripping and football. That is, until three mysterious visitors, two trolls and an elf, appear at his doorstep with a sudden conundrum: Nobody dies out there.

Pretty soon the unwilling hero Billy will be swept up into an adventure involving embarrassed zombies, grumpy wizards, a drunken mess of a dragon, pseudo-philosophical alchemists, green and gold nightmares, charming witches, skeletal ferrymen on strike, tropical beaches, flying goats, ancient spells, Cyclops butlers, Underworld pensioners, and a huge “good boy” doggie with fifty “good boy” heads.

Kedros, 2018, 168 p.