Lower Power. Lower Power, #11

LOWER POWER, a short story collection from Matthew Atkinson, is a ten-step program to the wrong kind of spiritual awakening. For those who love violence, love that they love it, and hate that they love that they love it. Brutal honesty: in these stories bullets fly and knives come out in defiance of the saying that everything happens for a reason. Nowhere escapes the touch of slaughter: the imagination ("Laser Swords for the Bored"), paradise ("The Monk Seal"), transit ("On Rails, " "On Rails II"), celebration ("Smoke", "Mr.
Victorious"), or American cultural institutions ("Reviled, " "Chicken Emotions, " "Juvenile"). Once you finally admit you are addicted to carnage you will be ready to give up your wayward ways to a LOWER POWER. For clarity, this collection includes these stories:  1. "Reviled"  2. "On Rails"  3. "Smoke"  4. "The Monk Seal"  5. "On Rails II"  6. "Chicken Emotions  7. "Mr. Victorious"  8. "Run Hide Fail"  9.
"Laser Swords for the Bored"  10. "Juvenile"