The Inauguration of Insanity (an erotic novella) - Dominic Francis

Starting at Hobbling University in a distant world, Tonnan - our narrator - falls in love with a woman called Xinx . "Every once in a while, a remarkable person takes centre stage in your life and that person seems to epitomise all the dreams that you deem sacred. When you're with that person, the world is exactly how you've always wanted it to be." Rockland, a likeable free spirit, also becomes infatuated with Xinx. "Rockland is a man who prospers when left alone: his spirit is driven by amphetamine nights bawling at random tombstones after stints of drinking at the Old Horse, sober days spent courting the spirit world in underwear, weeded weekends writing long love letters he claims communicate the inexpressible, and other larks like lethargically lulling a lady late in labour in the library." Tonnan and Rockland are training to be doctors. Rockland prophesies that something bad will happen to Tonnan, and it does. "I can't say where I would be were it not to happen as it does, but a cataclysmic apocalyptic force opposing my material, science-based existence would soon accelerate like a falling moon onto the metal metropolises of my otherwise unremarkable world and hundreds of lives would be hurled headlong into the heart of a localised Armageddon." Absurdly comic, erotic and poetic, 'The Inauguration of Insanity' is a love story about the traversing of the multiverse.