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Photojournalist Boot Means - the protagonist of Jesus Lives in Trenton
- tracks a serial arsonist across Texas. Someone is setting the buildings
aflame and burning innocent children, and with each spectacular fire,
Boot Means draws closer to danger. Only he knows that time is running
short. With Klim's offbeat and gritty suspense, Everything Burns delves
into the psyche of a true pyromaniac.
Boot Means stopped his motorcycle at the curb and jumped off. Ladder trucks hummed outside a line of shops in Concho's commercial district. A hardware store on Harp Street stood gutted, and wisps of gray smoke crept from the second floor apartment windows. He was late. The flames were already knocked down. That's how the firemen put it—'knocked down’—as if they had toppled a big bully and left him for dead. | |  | | Idiot!
What is the value of one life? Forest ranger Thomas King is a severe dyslexic and perceived village idiot. Alone, he roams the Pine Barrens, hoping to save a failing town. Claire Wethers' children have been stolen by her ex. The former beauty queen privately drowns her fears in whiskey. Their lives appear as marginal as the bankrupt town, but when this unlikely pair merge paths, everything changes.
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What happens when people start seeing Jesus on a downtown Trenton billboard? Klim's highly praised and cult favorite first novel is the exhilarating story of tabloid photojournalist Boot Means. He has discovered big trouble in Trenton, but it's his chance to erase his impoverished past as an orphan and launch into fame. Set in the desperate urban landscape of Trenton, NJ, this mainstream social satire delves into the heady world of televangalism and the seamy underworld of cult organizations.
| |  | | The Winners Circle
Striking it rich is the American dream, but when Jerry Nearing wins millions in the lottery, his troubles have only begun. It’s Klim’s best comedy/drama since Jesus Lives in Trenton. “Clever and funny.” —Publishers Weekly
For a long time after he struck it rich, Jerry Nearing was haunted by the specter of a rattlesnake. It rose in his dreams, just as it had in real life. He felt its thin white fangs piercing his skin, remaking his life in a million ways. He often snapped forward in bed, draped in a cold sweat, aware that he was alone and with no one to hear the ricochet pace of his heart. But the strange part, the hardest fact for him to reconcile, was that on the afternoon he almost died beside a stinking pile of manure, people called it the luckiest day of his life. “Sure to cinch Christopher Klim's place amo | |  | | True Surrealism
The collected short works of Christopher Klim.
By 7:00AM, the head-twins had already hit my cell phone. Kathy and Lucian performed their best work during the early morning hours. Kathy dreamed up the future, before her breakfast shift at the diner. She left me detailed clues, such as a person’s expression or the color of a woman’s dress that I might encounter during the day. Lucian was another story. His message only said, “The sheep are framing.” I wasn’t sure what it meant, but in November when “the chickens were dancing,” the cars on the interstate teed off in the fog like a derailed freight train. Impending doom was Lucian’s specialty, |
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by Asa Seeley
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 The gifted and fascinating Urban Poet, Asa D Seeley, once again speaks. He introduces a New Genre of Poetry...Reality Confrontation. Juxtaposed with Essay and staying true to his unique style, Asa brings a breath of...fresh air...to the world of poet |
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