A “Bent” group of short story “Offerings” available only on Amazon

Bent Offerings

Mark Sutton

Double Dragon Publishing 2003

… Bent Offerings

Mark Sutton

Double Dragon Publishing 2003

It takes an intelligent mind, perhaps somewhat warped, to come up with a novel like Mark Sutton’s “Bent Offerings.” If you’re a diligent reader and can read a novel that has as many twists and turns as the movie “Memento,” then I recommend that you to go to Amazon.com.

Why not Barnes ‘ Noble or another bookstore? Because you can’t buy this book in stores. Most of you have probably never heard of Sutton’s books because the press doesn’t devote much attention to him and his works – yet. Keep in mind, though, some of the most extraordinary pieces of literature are those that go unnoticed. I wouldn’t necessarily go as far as to call “Bent Offerings” extraordinary in a phenomenal, life-changing way, but it’s definitely more than ordinary.

Though “Bent Offerings” may seem a rather difficult read for a person who enjoys reading Rolling Stone articles, it may even give the sci-fi guru a headache.

Beginning with what’s thought to be a naked psychotic man cursing in the streets, the novel soon takes many different turns.

As stated on the book’s cover – somewhat “bland” in Sutton’s words – “‘Bent Offerings’ is just that, a collection of short stories within a novel that seem a little off, skewed to the left, bent over backwards …”

This collection of unusual short stories begins, “A rugged well-muscled man simply seemed to appear near the center of a very busy intersection, startling all around, screaming salvation or damnation to heaven-on-high and everybody who would listen, grasping at all who dared pass by. He was out-and-out naked.”

The naked man, later to be nicknamed “Bones,” wakes up in a hospital room. And then, throughout the rest of Sutton’s novel, the reader is forced inside the head of Bones who continuously has dreams that take place in the future. Each character Bones comes across in the novel plays a role in his disturbing dreams, getting the reader mixed between what is reality and what is fiction.

If you have the time to involve yourself in a novel that is going to take up plenty of it to unravel its secrets, then forget about going to a bookstore. Go online and download Sutton’s novel. And someday, maybe Sutton will get the press he needs that will save your printer’s paper. Until then, “Bent Offerings” is just a click away.