The Earworm Inception

Author Jon Konrath enjoys straddling the line between fact and fiction in this twenty short story collection laden with popular culture references. In this alternative history, cannibalism is all the craze, R Kelly made history by leading police on a high speed chase, kids are getting high on Metamucil, Crispin Glover is the president, everything is Julia Roberts fault, and zombies are just an everyday occurrence. It’s all normal in Konrath’s world.

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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

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