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Blackbird Pie II: Noir Re-tellings of Twelve Classic Nursery Rhymes

Blackbird Pie II: Noir Re-tellings of Twelve Classic Nursery Rhymes

Kellan, R. J.

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ISBN13: 9798242853799
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 6 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Blackbird Pie II, twelve familiar rhymes become blueprints for a darkly luminous future. A leak, a ledger, a lullaby - each written in code, each counting backward toward reckoning.

Jack and Jill climb a hill of data leaks - and fall harder than gravity allows. Humpty Dumpty hides a conspiracy written in ledgers and fractures. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary is a garden where secrets bloom beneath perfect lawns. The Queen of Hearts declares war on memory. Hey Diddle Diddle ends with a launch countdown and a moon that may not forgive.

Each tale is unsettling and luminous: a blend of noir atmosphere, speculative edge, and human vulnerability. Lyrical and razor-edged, Blackbird Pie II is both homage and reinvention - a series of modern fables for readers who know childhood songs were never really innocent, only encoded.

If the first Blackbird Pie uncovered the ledger, this second volume opens it wider - showing what happens when rhyme becomes record, and memory becomes weapon.

The rhymes remember. We're just catching up.

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