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|  | | Dirty Little Altar Boy These are the true confessions of a Dirty Little Altar Boy—Brandon D. Christopher’s hilarious debut novel about coming of age while coming undone. It was 1985, and if you weren’t a diehard Knight Rider fan or kicked ass at Dungeons & Dragons then you probably wouldn’t survive long in the savage and perilous institution known as St. Charles Junior High School. It was a time for 8th graders who stuck firecrackers in cats’ asses, a time for pretending to be murdered to freak out the neighbors, and a time for realizing that no one really liked you. It was the perfect time for a Dirty Little Altar Boy.
Dirty Little Altar Boy, excerpt:
Seventh grade was a son of a bitch. Not exactly the numerical grade itself but the realization that it was Junior High—that I was in Junior High. I was now in that strange frontier of dating and hair mousse and social cliques, and the harbinger of high school itself: fashion. Fashion, what a son of a bitch.
Thirteen was an age when you needed privacy, room for personal expression, social growth, new style. What a 13-year-old really needed was his own bedroom to allow this strange, new season to fully blossom, but when you’re the middle chil | |  | | Nightville Heaven and Hell are overcrowded. Now when you die, you end up in Nightville.
Heaven and Hell are overcrowded. Now when you die, you end up in Nightville.
Welcome to the swarming underworld of Nightville, that eternal city of souls halfway between the Big Time (Heaven) and Downtown (Hell). A handful of hardboiled Law Men do their best to keep the peace in a strange and sinister world inhabited by lost souls, sarcastic demons and fallen angels with narcotic habits.
Law Man Leo Kelso is ready to “retire” from duty and return to the world of the living when two innocent sisters accidentally wind up in Nightville. In a quest to save the girls, he must trav | |  | | The Job Pirate From porn to retail to delivering dead bodies to mortuaries, these are the strange tales of The Job Pirate.
From the porn magazine to the moving truck to the dark sewers of California, Brandon Christopher’s journey in the American job market is not only absurd, but also full of wit and profound observations. He steps out from behind the driver’s wheel, the cash register, and the office desk to record the lighter and darker sides of humanity in the workplace. Christopher’s tale makes even the most mundane job seem fascinating and the most exciting career appear hum-drum and hollow. The Job Pirate strips off the façade of the average employee to see what is hidden underneath.
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