Air in the Paragraph Line is an anthology of fiction, stories, rants, and tales by up-and-coming writers who are... More > entertaining, obscure, and cutting-edge. It's designed to be readable, enjoyable, and cheap. Issue #11 is a themed issue about work. It includes fact and fiction about work (or lack thereof) by Tony Byrer, Joshua Citrak, Mike Daily, Kurt Eisenlohr, Nile577, Josh Hamilton, M. David Hornbuckle,Robert W. Howington, Stephen Huffman, mj klein, Jon Konrath, Dege Legg, Sarah Katherine Lewis, Vijay Prozak, Lisbeth Pedersen, John Sheppard, Motel Todd, Julie Wiskirchen, and Sergeant Zeno < Less

From the high-roller suites in the Stardust Casino to the beat-up $39 rooms of the Circus Circus, this book unveils the trip... More > reports of Konrath's stays in Sin City, written from an outsider's view with cynical wit and amazing detail. Articles also cover the movies shot in Las Vegas, the sins of passion enjoyed in the city, and the things
you should and should not do if you plan a visit to the City of Lights. Includes over 120 photos. < Less

The nonlinear, experimental fiction of "Rumored to Exist" blasts through a hyperdimensional landscape of the near-future,... More > mutated fact, and impossible science. A combination of pop-fiction references, heavy metal speed, and hilarious parody mix the half-dozen different stories together into a nightmarish tale of post-apocalyptic America. < Less

A coming-of-age story about Death Metal, computer geeks, and life in the Midwest in the early '90s. John Conner has lost his... More > girlfriend, his job, a scholarship, and has been kicked out of college. Instead of retreating back to his parents' basement and a life of mediocrity and factory labor, he decides to stay the summer in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana. On the lazy Indiana University campus, Conner explores the worlds of Death Metal, 'zines, no-budget radio, and slackerdom while trying to learn about women, deal with depression, and get his life back on course. While he works telemarketing jobs and hawks glowsticks as a street vendor in order to survive, he learns who his friends are in the strange mix of people left at the college for the summer. < Less

Air in the Paragraph Line is an anthology of fiction, stories, rants, and tales by up-and-coming writers who are... More > entertaining, obscure, and cutting-edge. It's designed to be readable, enjoyable, and cheap. Issue #11 is a themed issue about work. It includes fact and fiction about work (or lack thereof) by Tony Byrer, Joshua Citrak, Mike Daily, Kurt Eisenlohr, Nile577, Josh Hamilton, M. David Hornbuckle,Robert W. Howington, Stephen Huffman, mj klein, Jon Konrath, Dege Legg, Sarah Katherine Lewis, Vijay Prozak, Lisbeth Pedersen, John Sheppard, Motel Todd, Julie Wiskirchen, and Sergeant Zeno < Less

A coming-of-age story about Death Metal, computer geeks, and life in the Midwest in the early '90s. John Conner has lost his... More > girlfriend, his job, a scholarship, and has been kicked out of college. Instead of retreating back to his parents' basement and a life of mediocrity and factory labor, he decides to stay the summer in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana. On the lazy Indiana University campus, Conner explores the worlds of Death Metal, 'zines, no-budget radio, and slackerdom while trying to learn about women, deal with depression, and get his life back on course. While he works telemarketing jobs and hawks glowsticks as a street vendor in order to survive, he learns who his friends are in the strange mix of people left at the college for the summer. < Less

A coming-of-age story about Death Metal, computer geeks, and life in the Midwest in the early '90s. John Conner has lost his... More > girlfriend, his job, a scholarship, and has been kicked out of college. Instead of retreating back to his parents' basement and a life of mediocrity and factory labor, he decides to stay the summer in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana. On the lazy Indiana University campus, Conner explores the worlds of Death Metal, 'zines, no-budget radio, and slackerdom while trying to learn about women, deal with depression, and get his life back on course. While he works telemarketing jobs and hawks glowsticks as a street vendor in order to survive, he learns who his friends are in the strange mix of people left at the college for the summer. < Less

A non-linear look at Konrath's life, The Necrokonicon is a glossary of people, places, and things from his high school and... More > college years. It documents his old friends, favorite haunts, vanished restaurants, ancient quotes and phrases, and former musical tastes. It describes life in a repressed, northern Indiana town, and years at a big college town in Bloomington, Indiana. < Less

A childhood friend that turned terrorist in an Islamic militant splinter faction of Amway. Richard Nixon’s commentary on... More > his favorite Dokken album. A reality TV show about competitive grave robbing. A movie review of Little Fockers, exploring the film’s BSDM-inspired pedophilia themes and parody of the Ben Hur chariot race, filmed with small breed dogs around a set designed like a 1970s Times Square filled with heroin addicts and pornographers.

Such scenarios and more are depicted in Fistful of Pizza, ten short stories and tales of woe by Jon Konrath, author of Rumored to Exist. This metafictional collection of surrealist fiction is compiled from Konrath’s long-running web site, The Wrath of Kon, and includes “If People Can Eat Blood Pudding, I Can Say I’m a Writer on My Tax Return”, “With Sleep, All Things are Possible”, “My Friend, The Jihadist”, “My Brother Died in a Clown Car Accident, You Douchebag”, and five other pieces of gonzo fiction written from a grim and twisted point of view. < Less

The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win in combat. But what is its mission in peacetime? A young... More > philosophy student drifts into the Army during the Reagan era and is shipped off to Europe to train and train and train to fight a war that would never be fought. < Less