Clown Sex Natasha Sutton Williams

Through the u-bend of a disused toilet, Gary Strange hears the tale of Ian Bartender, a man on a mission to understand the ebb and flow of menstruation from an unusually enlightened expert.

Through a bath plughole clogged with decaying hair, Gary Strange listens to a day in the life of Dead Lucy. When the sun rises, she’s a failed educator. When the sun sets, she’s a failed party animal. That is, until a single misplaced child changes everything.

During his brief stint as a circus rigger, Gary Strange discovers a new way to reach satisfaction. Combining the elephant dung nostalgia of his first circus visit with the clammy-palmed depravity of his deleted search history, Gary recounts his fondest memory: the first time he had sex with a clown.

Through an open street drain, Gary Strange overhears the devastating story of JJ, a double bass-playing, drug-taking, sex-fuelled firecracker of a woman who keeps taking the wrong turns in life.

Through the dripping taphole of a public toilet, Gary Strange hears how an intrepid young journalist once received cunnilingus from a cat in South Africa.

When Gary Strange starts gainful employment as a fatberg flusher for Thames Water, he inadvertently finds a gigantic spiritual deity deep down in the London sewer system.