Plastic Jesus (novella)

Plastic Jesus is a novella by Poppy Z. Brite, published by Subterranean Press in 2000. The story concerns Seth Grealy and Peyton Masters, frontmen of the rock and roll band The Kydds. Seth and Peyton fall deeply in love, and publicly come out after the Stonewall riots, at the cost of controversy and risk to the Kydds' popularity.

The story closely parallels the career of The Beatles, with not only Seth and Peyton standing in for John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but dozens of other Beatles-analogous characters and events.

Works by Poppy Z. Brite
Novels and novellas:
  • Lost Souls
  • Drawing Blood
  • Exquisite Corpse
  • The Lazarus Heart
  • Plastic Jesus
  • The Value of X
  • Liquor
  • Triads
  • Prime
  • Soul Kitchen
  • D*U*C*K
Short story collections:
  • Wormwood
  • Are You Loathsome Tonight?
  • Wrong Things (with Caitlín R. Kiernan)
  • The Devil You Know
  • Antediluvian Tales
Short stories:
  • "R.I.P."
  • "The Seed of Lost Souls"
  • "Stay Awake"
  • "Would You?"
  • "Pansu"
  • Con Party at Hotel California"
  • "The Feast of St. Rosalie"
  • "Used Stories"
  • "Crown of Thorns"
Non fiction:
  • Courtney Love: The Real Story
  • Guilty But Insane

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    “What a wonderful faculty is memory!—the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds—this faithful witness against us for good or evil.”
    —Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)

    “Then Jesus called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 9:1,2.