The Grim Reboot: ALF
Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog about the dark, bleak treatment that reboots get nowadays. As an example, I rebooted Gilligan’s Island, applying my own spin. A friend requested that I reboot the sitcom ALF (1986 – 1990). ALF was about a furry little alien, Gordon Shumway (aka ‘ALF’ – which stands for Alien Life Form) from the planet Melmac. ALF follows an amateur radio signal back to Earth and crash lands in a suburban family’s garage. The family, the Tanners, hide him from an Alien Task Force (a part of the US military that focuses on aliens) and the good-natured but busybody neighbours, the Ochmoneks. ALF is a traditional…
August Falling
Title: August Falling Publisher: Pantera Press Publication Date: 2 September 2018 Category: Suburban Noir Paperback: (234x153mm, 295 pages) ISBN Print: 978-1-925700-03-9 Ebook: 978-1-925700-07-7 The past. Sometimes we can’t escape it. After a bad relationship, August is trying to piece his life back together. It’s not perfect. His flat is small, he works in a call centre, he can ‘t finish the book he’s working on, and he’s socially challenged when it comes to women. When August meets Julie, he finds she’s everything he isn’t – confident, composed, and purposeful, despite her troubled childhood. With her, August finally begins to feel he can be himself. But Julie has a secret that…
