Killing Adonis

Killing Adonis is a tragicomic tale about love, delusion, corporate greed and the hazards of using pineapple cutters while hallucinating.

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After seeing a curious flyer, Freya takes a job caring for Elijah, the comatose son of the eccentric Vincetti family. She soon discovers that the Vincetti’s labyrinthine mansion hides a wealth of secrets, their corporate rivals have a nasty habit of being extravagantly executed, and Elijah is not the saint they portray him to be.

As well, Marilyn Monroe keeps showing up, unaware she’s very much deceased. And there’s something very strange about the story that Elijah’s brother Jack is writing …

Killing Adonis is a tragicomic tale about love, delusion, corporate greed and the hazards of using pineapple cutters while hallucinating.

About the Author

J.M. Donellan is a writer, musician, slam poet, radio DJ and teacher. He was almost devoured by a tiger in the jungles of Malaysia, nearly died of a lung collapse in the Nepalese Himalayas, fended off a pack of rabid dogs with a guitar in the mountains of India and was sexually harassed by a half-naked man next to Oscar Wilde’s grave in Paris. Donellan is a jack of all trades: his debut novel A Beginner's Guide to Dying in India won the 2009 IP Picks Best Fiction Award, he scripted and voiced the internationally popular Pocket Hipster iPhone application, was a state finalist in the 2012 Australian Poetry Slam, and was chosen as one of the Top 10 Writers in the 2013 SOYA awards. He also wrote and directed We are All Ghosts, which was selected as part of the Playlab Labrats program and performed as part of the 2014 Anywhere Theatre Festival.