Cows
When your world literally falls apart, what do you do? For Steven, it means facing a nightmare of dismembered bodies, a dead pet, a comatose girlfriend, and a baby gruesomely murdered. But the real horror is the stampede of murderous cattle threatening to overwhelm the city's transit system. This is the brutal debut that announced Matthew Stokoe as a master of extreme horror.
A young man escaping a lifetime of abuse at home who takes a job at a slaughterhouse and pursues an escalating fantasy of a normal life.
Steven's grotesque, abusive mother, who poisons and berates him nightly.
The unstable foreman at the slaughterhouse who mentors Steven in self-empowerment through violence.
Steven's upstairs neighbor, whom he pursues as the partner in an imagined normal life.