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Jungle
Brett McBean


Illustrated by Keith Minnion

 JUNGLE:                                                                           
       n  1 any dense or tangled thicket or growth
                           2 a place of intense competition or ruthless struggle for survival

We’re trapped in a world of modern convenience, of steel giants and oceans of concrete. For the most part we’re content to live in this colourless existence. But we’ve paid for our comfortable lifestyles. Instead of looking out our windows and seeing a forest of trees, we see a forest of buildings; instead of a clear flowing river, we see rapids of asphalt and an endless stream of vehicles cascading along its surface. Smog chokes the once clean air. Noise pollution drowns out the birdsong. It’s a jungle out there, but not in the way nature intended.
Which is why nature has decided to take back control.

Welcome to the new world.

A world in which the land has reverted back to jungle, where you no longer fight for a parking space, but for your life; where supermarkets have become places of savagery and your next-door neighbour looks at you not as a friend, but as perhaps their next meal.
A world where survival is reserved only for the fittest…and for the cunning.

Welcome to the jungle.

In a series of three novellas, Brett McBean takes a look at life in the modern world and turns it inside out. He transforms the common into the uncommon, the banal into the unreal, as everything from a multi-level car park, to a typical suburban sprawl become dangerous hunting grounds.  Forget TV dinners and 50% discounts at your local Target - it's a fight for survival as nature takes over your homes and shopping centres.

Book 1: CONCRETE JUNGLE

It's late. A few remaining shoppers head for the multi-story car park after
attacking the sales at an adjacent shopping center.

However, they become trapped in the underground bunker when, incredibly,
trees start to sprout from beneath the car park, transforming the concrete
structure into a ruined, maze-like cavern.

Unable to find a way out it becomes a struggle for survival, for not only
does the car park continue to transform back into a jungle, wild animals
have begun to appear, governed by hunger under the foliage canopy.
Now the humans must fight to survive - not only Mother Nature, but a foe
just as deadly...each other.

*Bonus stories from Nate Kenyon and Tim Kroenert*

 

 

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