Review No. 3: Dog Meat by Priscilla Bettis — JF Kaufmann, Author

Priscilla Bettis’s novella is a fascinating journey into the blackness of totalitarian regime—a literary sublimation and a paradigm that we have seen before, from Romania between 1945 and 1989 and Stalin’s gulags to the crazy, murderous dictatorship of Pol Pot in Cambodia and the constant blasting of tenets from the public speakers on the streets […] … Continue reading Review No. 3: Dog Meat by Priscilla Bettis — JF Kaufmann, Author →

An Excerpt, and a Celebration!

My upcoming novella, Dog Meat, is set in the 1980s in a made-up country (the "Colony"), but the following scene happened to real-life family friends of ours (now American citizens). Ward is a little boy at home with his family. His mother and father (“Patro”) are intellectuals, and Revolution soldiers think intellectuals are dangerous. The … Continue reading An Excerpt, and a Celebration! →

An Interview and My First Dog Meat Review!

I was tickled pink to be interviewed by fellow author (and Bigfoot expert) Lionel Ray Green for his Fresh Blood series. Check it out! AND I got my first review for my upcoming dystopian novella, Dog Meat! Pax on her YouTube channel enjoyed, um, had fun with, uh... maybe you should just see what she … Continue reading An Interview and My First Dog Meat Review! →

Alternate-History, Literary, Disturbing

Two alternate-history dystopian stories: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. What if the Axis alliance had won WWII instead?SS-GB by Len Deighton is the British cousin of The Man in the High Castle. Two literary dystopian stories: Armageddon House by Michael Griffin is a bleak, futuristic novella. It’s like Groundhog Day meets … Continue reading Alternate-History, Literary, Disturbing →