The Adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy is a series of gentle short stories, written by Edward S. Louis, that play with the ideas and images of Through the Veil paintings.

Look for The Adventure of Rabbit and Kitty Boy in 2019!  It will be published by Elm Grove Press and can be purchased through all of the major book carriers.

Below is part of the first story to give you a taste for the complete book.

Rabbit and Kitty Boy Escape the Postmodern Radar

“That doesn’t make sense,” Rabbit said.

“What’s that?” Kitty Boy asked.

“Postmodern,” Rabbit replied. “It’s either modern, now, or before now. If you can sit here and look at it, it can’t be after now.”

They were sitting together looking at a book called Postmodern Art.

“Modern in art doesn’t mean now,” Kitty Boy explained. “It means some kinds of art between the 1880s and 1950s.”

“What kinds?”

“Work that rejected old ideas and tried new techniques instead, trying to get everyone to see in different ways.  It prefers irony to realism.”

“What’s irony?” Rabbit asked.

“No one knows,” Kitty Boy said.

“So postmodernism must come after modernism,” Rabbit suggested.

“Exactly,” Kitty Boy answered, smiling.

“What makes it different?” Rabbit asked.

“It rejects old ideas and tries to make everyone see in new ways.”

“That’s what you said about modernism,” Rabbit said doubtfully.

“It brings into question everything we think we know. It casts a radar over art, language, science, poetry—everything—to see what lies behind it.” Kitty Boy was doing his best to explain…………………………………….