AS FREE AS THE CHAIN IS LONG is a mixed brew of a dozen odd bod stories and miscellany fished from the trunk. The scourge that has just swept the world has given every living soul not just a taste of isolation, but more an imbibed gorging of the inherent mind-fuqery of solitariness that goes along with it. Compiled pre-pandemic, half of the stories run a similar gamut of madness as such, highlighting the personal tolls of alienation and estrangement; including the Nullarbor road story The Preacher From The Back Saloon, Her Bed Was Summer, From The Diary of Quincunx The T’ird, Puny The Elder, The Last Steps To Cell F, and the novella Loner: Spitten in Exile.