"Except for the dead man in the bathtub, no one is home
at the moment."
- Charlie Shoemaker/CLUSTER IN
AN IRON BUCKET
"At a time when more people die from heroin than from car accidents, Charlie bought a car."
- Brain Fog Barney/CLUSTER IN AN IRON BUCKET
"Charlie-Boy had resumed putting warning notices in the form of notes on hisneighbors' doors and covering the walls with graffiti."
"The invasion of the aliens from the planet so-and-so was once again imminent and Charlie-Boy had to at least warn the neighborhood and lock up their pets."
- Samantha Dunham/CLUSTER IN AN IRON BUCKET
"Reverend Zoydd W. Floydd lived in the woods of the Ozark Mountains; among Bigfoot and the two-headed speed freaks and the old and the bent and the rest of the all time fuck ups."
- Samantha Dunham/CLUSTER IN AN IRON BUCKET
Reverend Zoydd W. Floydd
"I drive along the old freeway. Past broken trailer parks, burned-outwrecked cars and half-ruined houses: Ruins of a declining civilization."
"The Atlantis of the day after tomorrow - glowing and topped with a little frosting."
- Samantha Dunham/CLUSTER IN AN IRON BUCKET
"Just over two weeks ago, 7 miles sout-hwest of the old freeway, a hitchhiker was kidnapped by a madman."
"Not far from here, her bodily remains were found in a garbage can yesterday, in front of a fucked-up crackhouse."
"In the backyard, the crazed killer had hung the organs of the 25-year-old student on a clothesline to dry."
- Samantha Dunham/CLUSTER IN AN IRON BUCKET
Mrs. Flynt
"Mrs. Flynt from the property management company had called me: Charlie had kidnapped a cat who thought he was a dog."
- Samantha Dunham/CLUSTER IN AN IRON BUCKET
Harvey, the kidnapped dog
Douglas M. Stratton, Cannibal of San José
CLUSTER IN AN IRON BUCKET
"A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter."
- Morey Amsterdam