From G to PG to R to X

Sunnie and Brother mourn Mother; an apparition visits Sunnie. Mother appears in Sunnie's disturbing dreams; Sunnie meets Momma Leg, a vicious dominatrix … Comedy writer Pamm Demmyck is the boss; she just wants to write jokes. Her partner Remmy Dessyvyr has principles; she fights back … Politically polarized Amourrica Profunda descends into chaos; Amourrica Profunda becomes "Mourrzicka" … Pamm and Remmy find success with their musical in the Triplethreat District of Megalopola … The Anarchic Rebel Patriots take over Mourrzicka, which becomes "Isolamicka" … Turmerico Inflammatorio and his wife, Curcuma Moulu, develop the best-selling "Turmerican Wonder Fabric". Turmerico's daughter, Francka Inflammatorio, expects her eight-year old daughter Deandra to become a predatory capitalist; Deandra defies her Mommy … Sunnie's brother Bobbie encounters Chester, a "shaman for good"; Bobbie helps Chester investigate a nearby cult ceremony. Two women converse as they wait for the ceremony to begin. Female One, a "hustler", is dominant; Female Two is passive and academic. At the ceremony, a collection of perverse and eccentric characters gathers by a torch-lit pit. At the bottom of the pit, an older man and a middle-aged woman lay side by side on two cement slabs. The woman is dressed as a scarecrow; the man as a clown … Bobbie flees the cult ceremony; he drives to his friend Tommie's home. But Tommie's not there; Bobbie enacts a destructive plan. A space goddess appears; two witches greet Bobbie … A cataclysm occurs.

Stephen C. Bird is a fiction writer and visual artist. He has written the following books: "Hideous Exuberance" (2009, 2013); "Catastrophically Consequential" (2012); "Any Resemblance to a Coincidence is Accidental" (2015); "To Be to Is to Was" (2018); and "From G to PG to R to X" (2022). He was born in Toronto and grew up in Erie County, New York. Mr. Bird has lived in New York City for most of his adult life.