KILL DICK

LUKE GOEBEL

Susie Vogelman comes home one day after art school she finds her roommate has overdosed on opioids. She does what many young people do: she takes the drugs and starts to live large in one of Manhattan's finer hotels. She does this with her favorite art teacher, who is soon to be terminated, and ends up in Los Angeles with his ex-student, Vogelman. Susie stays at her parents' mansion getting high until Phil moves in. Phil wants to find his unhoused brother and opens a rehab center, hoping to attract his brother and others like him. Phil has an ulterior motive, which is to make and take as much money as possible from the addicts who are living in the rehab center. As with drugs, violence is its best friend. Homicides occur left and right, leading to Phil and Susie.

Kill Dick provides the reader with a sad, horrifying, yet realistic view of the worst in people and in society. Kill Dick is a worthwhile read. The writer can be verbose, which lessens the impact of what should be a wake-up call for the reader and for all those who are more fortunate than the characters in Kill Dick.