A Boy and His Dog (Retro Review)

by Edward Dunn


Vic is in his late teens; he's 'a boy and a man', like that Alice Cooper song. He walks around in the desert all day with a rifle; like Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men. In his travels, he finds a suitable human female to sleep with. Her name is Quilla June Holmes; she is from the land down under. And no, I'm not going to make a reference to Outback Steakhouse®...or Paul Hogan, for that matter. Quilla goes back into 'the land down under', and Vic follows her home. There is a society below the Earth's surface called Topeka. Topeka is a Norman Rockwell scene that's gone completely haywire. We'll call it an interesting mix of: Hitler Youth Camp, that city in Children of the Corn, and Topeka, Kansas.
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