Here, a short story allied to a flurry of press cuttings provides effective socio-political commentary from conscientious craftsman and agitator Michael J Weller, author of 'S Club 7 versus the Anti-Capitalists' and thirty years-worth of outré small press titles.

Mike wakes one morning to a world painted in primary colours and inhabited by yellow-fill people short a finger on each hand. With the tweet tweet of birds on repeated sound loop, he pours a tea-looking brew, wears Harry Potter coke-bottle-bottom glasses over bulging white eyes, and can't seem to think straight. Mike too is caught in the grip of yellow fever.

This allegory concisely highlights with Textliner-luminosity our commercially arbitrated, dumbed-down relationship to a world in which the response to global homogenisation is dictated by an increasingly synthetic value-system. It's also a fun, thoroughly delightful read.

A5 Home-Baked Book, 20pp, £2 (inc. p&p)
Available from Visual Associations, c/o Mike Weller, 3 Queen Adelaide Court, Queen Adelaide Road, Penge, London SE20 7DZ.