A trans-dimensional gateway beween a Kenny Rogers Roasters location in Seattle to a Fred Meyer in Alaska. Richard Nixon bowling with the Roswell aliens. A corn-worshipping cult on the outskirts of a
My Little Pony
theme park. These are some of the tales in
The Failure Cascade
, Jon Konrath's latest collection of flash, micro-fiction, stories, and other weirdness.
is thirty-four pieces of abnormal and unorthodox prose about the litanies and tribulations of the post-apocalyptic reality. The bite-sized chunks of sick, laugh-out-loud dark humor continue the madness within is collections
Ranch: The Musical
and
Help Me Find My Car Keys And We Can Drive Out!
, but also contain longer stories reminiscent of his work in
Thunderbird
Sleep Has No Master
.
The author of the cult classic
Rumored to Exist
weaves a chaotic collection of nonlinear references to death metal, pop culture, Nineties nostalgia, and the absurd into an ambient enumeration of the complexities and contraditions of current existence. It includes all previously unpublished stories, such as
Hot Karl's Goodbye and the Taliban Bugzilla Database
,
Post-dialectic Discourse in the Works of GG Allin and Alanis Morissette
Evel Knievel Would Never Call Me at Five in the Morning to Talk About Christian Black Metal
, and
Sewage Beach
This is a fever dream of a collection of the amusing and unusual, almost designed to offend, enlighten, and entertain. Like the rest of Konrath's work, it is a wild ride through the surreal and unconventional.