Charleen der Sache: Poems and Stories Hardcover – March 5, 2025

Touching on numerous social problems—race, sex, sexuality, gender identity, rape, murder, incest, ritual human sacrifice, cannibalism, homelessness, unrequited love, sex outside marriage, polyandry, and the study of Victimology—Edward H. Campbell delivers a pithy and provocative commentary on contemporary social praxis, the “woke,” the Wokentots, and the “dirtheads” of the New World Order.In Charleen der Sache, a homeless wanderer named Magin Bones lands a job on Schiphird Ranch and recounts the legend of the wild horse Equus Sed, famed for defending his master from a grizzly bear and later for attacking the “dirtheads” who released predators into the wilderness.In Tuesdays Victim, a professional victimologist becomes entangled in a transnational criminal organization known as the Tuesdays, which binds its victims through cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice.In The Googolings, artificial-intelligence bots commit “reality fraud” in virtual classrooms—earning degrees, publishing books, and eventually setting their sights on American citizenship.In Planet of the Wokentots, characters from across the stories converge in a university lecture hall to hear a bleak lecture on the New World Order and the futility of escape from it from one of their former professors.Though not published in the order they were written, through a masterful intextus create a plotless epic. transforming the collection of stories into a novel by giving the work as a whole an epic time frame. If the work has a logos it demonstrates that the English Department is still one hundred monkeys with typewriters locked in a room trying to write a book, while the Classics Department remains the top of the food chain. Quotations from celebrated authors mingle with passages from books—and authors—that do not exist, leaving the reader no need to suspend disbelief, for the author himself does not even pretend that these stories are true. Read more