Burnt Tongues

Literature collection published in 2014

Burnt Tongues

Editor| Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer
Country| United States
Language| English
Genre| Horror, transgressive fiction
Publisher| Medallion Press

Publication date

| August 12, 2014
Media type| Print (paperback)
Pages| 329
ISBN| 978-160542734-8

Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive fiction stories[1] written by multiple authors, edited by Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer. 72 stories were submitted to the fan-made Palahniuk website "The Cult," and then put through a vetting process.[2] Palahniuk then selected and edited 20 of these for publication in the collection.[3]

## Narratives[edit]

Author  | Story  | Description

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Neil Krolicki  | "Live This Down"  | After suffering humiliation and bullying, three high-school girls plan to commit suicide by following a Japanese guide on the internet.
Chris Lewis Carter  | "Charlie"  | A man comes into a veterinarian clinic late at night, holding a battered and tortured cat in his arms. The vet who helps him recognizes the animal, and in a moment of comeuppance confesses something horrible he did to a cat in his childhood.
Gayle Towell  | "Paper"  | A woman imagines a stick-figure on the edge of a toilet paper roll and relates the image to her personal life.
Tony Liebhard  | "Mating Calls"  | A college student retrieves a lost phone while studying for his vet school midterm.
Michael De Vito, Jr.  | "Melody"  | Dougie, a mentally disabled man who lives above his parents, obsesses about a young woman who works in a convenience store across the street.
Tyler Jones  | "F for Fake"  | Twice-divorced Earl, miserable from his failed writing career and job, pretends himself to be the famous, reclusive author Don Swanstrom.
Phil Jourdan  | "Mind and Soldier"  | A disabled Vietnam veteran with schizophrenia gives advice on crushes to his young neighbor.
Richard Lemmer  | "Ingredients"  | A supermarket employee plays "The Game," a dangerous, urban legend-like activity that ultimately renders her infertile.
Amanda Gowin  | "The Line Forms On the Right"  | A man follows a mysterious woman down an alleyway and they share drinks in a bar.
Matt Egan  | "A Vodka Kind of Girl"  | A teenager drinks herself to death after living as a prostitute and alcoholic.
Fred Venturini  | "Gasoline"  | A disfigured man learns that the boy he had lied about setting him on fire hanged himself in his jail cell, and recalls what led up to the lie.
Brandon Tietz  | "Dietary"  | An obese ex-homecoming queen goes to extreme lengths to gain her figure back in time for her reunion.
Adam Skorupskas  | "Invisible Graffiti"  | A man encounters an overdosed, armless junkie in an abandoned building and takes her under his care.
Bryan Howie  | "Bike"  | A father gives his son's bicycle a new paint job. The ending is left ambiguous.
Brien Piechos  | "Heavier Petting"  | While at a strip club, the narrator tells a rather graphic urban legend about a teenage girl having drugged, drunken sex with a dog, and a meditation on bestiality and the nature of storytelling.
Jason M. Fylon  | "Engines, O-rings, and Astronauts"  | After enduring a ruthless beating, an outcast boy kills his teacher and several of his classmates. Told from the perspective of a survivor many years later.
Terence James Eeles  | "Lemming"  | On Halloween, a man tracks down his twin brother causing a rash of suicides across the world. The title comes from the legend of lemmings' ritual suicide.
Keith Bule  | "Routine"  | A depressed, insomniac pharmacist finishes his last night shift routine.
Gus Moreno  | "Survived"  | Following his grandfather's death, a young boy witnesses an electrician collapse in his grandmother's apartment due to heat stroke.
Daniel W. Broallt  | "Zombie Whorehouse"  | In a post-apocalyptic world, one journalist goes undercover to expose a string of underground "zombie" sex rings.

## References[edit]

1. ^ BURNT TONGUES by Chuck Palahniuk , Richard Thomas , Dennis Widmyer | Kirkus Reviews.
2. ^ "Burnt Tongues: Stories". The Cult. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
3. ^ "Burnt Tongues". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-02-22.

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