Answers for the final time the following age-old questions : 1. why do small town cops bungle a murder investigation with evidence in abundance? 2. what is the relation of the author to the protagonist and why must we even ask this silly question? 3. what are the names and associations of the river that flows through the center of small town america with such polluted grace?

The Conviction & Subsequent Life of Savior Neck

Literature & Fiction

TeBordo, Christian

Humor & Satire

Spuyten Duyvil

After three novels, dynamic and masterful young writer Christian TeBordo, has finally collected his best short stories in The Awful Possibilities. A girl among kidney thieves masters the art of forgetting. A motivational speaker skins his best friend to impress his wife. A man outlines the rules and regulations for sadistic child-rearing. A teen in Brooklyn, Iowa, deals with the fallout of his brother's rise to hip hop fame. Populated with the people we've all heard whispering in hallways, mumbling in diners, shouting in the apartment next door, these brilliantly strange set pieces explode the boundaries of short fiction and locate the awe in the awful possibilities we could never have imagined.

The Awful Possibilities

United States

Featherproof Books

A boy receives an email from his mother offering free movie tickets shortly after her death. He recognizes it for spam, but wishes she'd really sent it. He responds, and is soon barraged with offers for male enhancements drugs, home appliances, mortgages, and everything else he. Soon, he and his father are swallowing all manner of black market pharmaceuticals, somehow growing closer together as they fall apart, each in his own way.

We Go Liquid

Literary

Impetus Pr

Fiction. Do we call TOUGHLAHOMA the satire we all deserve, a monstrously true fable of the late days of capitalism? We could say, for instance, that TOUGHLAHOMA crosses Vico's early sociological theories with Hobbes's and Locke's conflicting notions of the state of nature to tell the story of one civilization's failed attempts to become civilized. Or we could say that TOUGHLAHOMA is simply a first account of the Toughlahomans and what they did and do: Jesus went to the End and back before inventing Uglahoma. Ishmael kicked ass and said taglines all over Roughlahoma. Good Dad mostly stayed put. The rest of them hang around the Community Center chewing their Necro Wafers and just being themselves—bicepsual, troublesexual, and martially artistic—in case they ever get to have a war. Let's call TOUGHLAHOMA a history, a scripture, a goddamn dithyramb, and a public relations campaign all in one. "In the post-apocalyptic, Mad Max world of literature, Christian TeBordo is the guy with the shotgun."—Amelia Gray  "A non-stop rush of luscious language and ingeniously twisted story logic told from another dimension, perhaps the fifth or sixth."—David Ohle

Toughlahoma

Rescue Press

Mike Long, a.k.a. Michael Rider, a.k.a. Knight Rider--frustrated philosopher and ersatz office manager--finds himself charged with misdemeanor stalking, simple assault, and planning a terrorist attack, at the end of a very rough work week that includes late-night stakeouts of the new woman in payable, fistfights with the IT guy, pissing in the elevator, and more than one happy hour at Chili's. This is his apology, not an expression of regret, but a justification. Fiction.

The Apology

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Astrophil Press

Fiction. Is a ghost engine alive? Is it relatable? Christian TeBordo weaves between narratives in search of the answer in GHOST ENGINE: STORIES, a Bridge Eight Press Fiction Prize Winner. A convicted murderer teaches why the rainbow is the most insidious of all metals. Fashion designer Gordon Gartrelle adapts to his identity as fashion designer Gordon Gartrelle. Frag and Watt take turns with a wrench, hoping to assemble something that just might work, if only for a moment. From scenes of chilling hilarity to an underlying absurdity, GHOST ENGINE keeps the haunt alive long after you've finished reading. "Make no mistake: GHOST ENGINE is original to its bones. TeBordo's prose hits as hard as a hammer, his characters haunt your dreams. The satire never tires and somehow you wind up laughing and loving every page you turn."?Tom Williams "Given that we live in so bizarre a multiverse, these brilliant, irreverent, ingenious stories may seem impolite at times. Vicious. Disturbing. The book may cause you to laugh out loud at something you'd rather not admit you find funny, or bring tears to your eyes on behalf of a character you'd rather not admit you find human?it might hurt your feelings?but GHOST ENGINE loves you. GHOST ENGINE only hopes for the best for you. All that GHOST ENGINE really wants, in the end, is to see you smile that pretty smile of yours while it sets your house on fire."?Camille Bordas "TeBordo speaks to the troubling light and the comforting darkness of our present situation. He writes from the core of our shared junkheap and excavates beauty, buries it again, breaks it out anew."?Juan Martinez

Ghost Engine: Stories

Bridge Eight Press

Better Ways of Being Dead by Christian TeBordo is a dark mystery (more pleasedoit than whodunit), an A paper, an F paper, several very bad sonnets, a batch of ridiculous encyclopedia entries, and a lengthy monologue that takes place entirely during a game of hands on a hard body. Required reading for all students of Advanced Recomposition.

Better Ways of Being Dead

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Afterbirth Books

A boy receives an email from his mother offering free movie tickets shortly after her death. He recognizes it for spam, but wishes she'd really sent it. He responds, and is soon barraged with offers for male enhancements drugs, home appliances, mortgages, and everything else he never knew he needed, by way of the afterlife. Soon, he and his father are swallowing all manner of black market pharmaceuticals, somehow growing closer together as they fall apart, each in his own way.

Long Day Press

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The Conviction & Subsequent Life of Savior Neck

The Awful Possibilities

We Go Liquid

Toughlahoma

The Apology

Ghost Engine: Stories

Better Ways of Being Dead

We Go Liquid