The Mating Rituals of the Burning Giraffe

About the Book

Set in a world where clocks melt and gentlemen rain from the sky, The Mating Rituals Of The Burning Giraffe is a grown-up´s fable, inspired by the surrealist paintings, sculptures, and sketches of Magritte, Dalí, and Monty Python. It’s a brightly colored delirium, dedicated to the indomitable child. The story follows Billy Dada, a young man about to enter a state of higher learning where he will be taught the principles of categorizing biological diversity, from smelly wolves to cats with heads like mushrooms, from hares with fangs to enormous clams, but who, midst the books and lectures, nurtures a fascination with the giraffa infernalis, a pyring obsession that’s about to turn into a scathefire. So begins a black-and-blue excursion into the brushstrokes on life’s canvas. It´s a slab of confusion and desperation, a swirl of hardships and sorrows—inside a frame of meaning. The Mating Rituals of the Burning Giraffe is an adult fairytale about how fate tears us apart unless we move with it. It’s a way to move with it. Move with it.

About the Author

My name is Morgan Benson. I was born, kicking and screaming, on the crumbling fringes of a Utopia. My father was a menial worker, my mother’s jobs were twice as menial, and me, I would blossom into a thistle in civilization’s best kept garden. Duly processed, I was assigned to the IKEA deconstruction department, where the assembled furniture is dismantled and crammed into boxes. Set for a life of taking apart fully functional coffee tables that somebody else would put back together at home, the futility of life dawned on me, whereupon I was rushed to the nearest Citizen Readjustment Facility. Upon my release, I set out to write something that’d keep sanity at bay. The Mating Rituals Of The Burning Giraffe is in online retailers now.