A food truck craze involving human cannibalism. A Texas Governor who obsessively listens to Rebecca Black right before every state execution. A chainsaw factory that plays Ozzy Osbourne for its welding robots. An ex-girlfriend drunk-dialing from Kandahar, where she's starting a Shakey's Pizza restaurant chain. And an endless search to find the right mix of prescription medication to stop the memories of a bizarre past.
These mad stories make up the latest by Jon Konrath, a collection of 20 flash fiction narratives that cross between metafiction and experimental prose, telling grim and absurd fast-paced tales about Konrath's life in a twisted fashion.
Includes the following stories:
- The Chainsaw Baron Prophecy
- The Machine
- The Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test Manifesto
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Canine Nutrasweet Poisoning
- The Chapman Protocol Conundrum
- Nancy Grace Shit-fits and why you should start learning how to make soap and ammunition
- Last Man Standing
- The 15-minute Rule of Pizza Delivery No Longer Applies Post-Zombie Apocalypse
- The Blood Pool
- Dredging the Holiday Nostalgia
- I Believe I Can Flee the State
- Ten Reasons Rick Perry Isn't Getting the New Amazon Tablet
- 40% of all UFO sightings that lead to anal coring of cattle take place on a Monday or Friday
- The MovieFone Snuff Film Agenda
- Sturgeon Glue and TSA Beatdowns
- Bozo R. Budd John Wayne Gacy Dwyer and the Inevitable Meltdown of Mets Pitching
- Why I do not subscribe to Hallucinogenics Aficionado
- Call From Kandahar
- Bad Greek Food, Mortuary School, and on the Keeping of Human Slaves
- The Earworm Inception
ISBN: 978-0-9844223-3-3, 134 pages
Now available at:
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- Kindle: Amazon.com
Last updated Wednesday, 09-May-2012
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