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This is the afterlife : stories / Jeff Chon.

Summary:

"Welcome to the afterlife in Jeff Chon's America: disaffected Goth teens sneer their way through a Christian Fundamentalist rally where a mound of "Satanic" LPs are set ablaze in response to the hospitalization of one of their classmates; a young teacher returns to his hometown to reckon with the suicide of a friend who was recently exposed as a necrophiliac; and a local comic store sponsers a "Draw the Prophet Muhammed" contest, aided and abetted by a right-wing shock jock and a local biker gang. With warmth and a touch of the sardonic, the stories in This is the Afterlife look deeply into the recursive nature of fate: how the end of one action's lifespan leads to the birth of another, and how the most unexpeted and bizarre twists in our lives are inevitable, even when they're undeserved." -- Page 4 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781952386459 (paperback)
ISBN: 1952386454 (paperback)
Physical Description: 154 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Montclair, New Jersey : Sagging Meniscus Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

P.A.L.A.D.I.N. -- Tanuki -- All these lives -- Stay put -- There's no connection here -- This is not happening -- You will not be redeemed by the likes of them -- I'll allow it, just this once -- Dead end -- Not a fever, not a dream -- Undead -- They belong here now -- The ruins -- This is the afterlife.