Peter Pišťanek - The Wooden Village

“What do you think, Sida darling,” Freddy shouts into the living room, without lifting his eyes from the screen. “Could we get a live elephant on stage in Justine ?”

Sida thinks about it and takes a sip straight from the can.

“Not likely, you stupid fat pervert,” she tells her slave.

“I see,” says Freddy, disappointed. “Then I’ll have to think of something else.”

He turns round and through the open door his eyes catch the view of his dominatrix and their child. He suddenly realises that some time ago even for him, Freddy Piggybank, the sky became cloudless.

His days will be as lovely as a field of flax.

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Peter Pišt'anek, translated by Peter Petro. Rivers of Babylon 2007. pp 259. ISBN 978-0-9535878-4-1. £12.99

Peter Pišt'anek, translated by Peter Petro The End of Freddy ( Rivers of Babylon 3) 2008. pp 320. ISBN 978-0-9535878-6-5 £13.99

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