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Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread


A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection


Subgenres:

  • Transgressive Fiction,
  • Dark Humor
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Short stories that blend the bizarre with dark humor
  • Transgressive takes on life, death, and taboo desires
  • Characters chasing meaning through absurd, sometimes shocking situations
Publisher Description

Twenty one stories and one novella from Chuck Palahniuk, literature's favorite transgressive author, Make Something Up is a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure.

In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club.

And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators.

In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients.

Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come

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