Image. Sin. Suicide. Blame. College isn't all kegs and eggs. Chris feels like a loser. He's sick of his Catholic high school life of obedience and order. He goes to college craving something else, but knows he won't find it on his own. The socially adept Ethan takes Chris under his wing, sharing basement revelry traditions and introducing him to campus terrorism, with a few hundred-dollars' worth of innocent fish as victims. Everything seems fine until Ethan puts a gun in his mouth sophomore year. Chris has to find out why the envy of so many chose suicide as his way out. He won't like the answers. Part-memoir, part-fiction, this portrayal of the underside of campus life intertwines sarcasm and skepticism to define a culture seeking the never-ending party.
Brian Krans is the author of A Constant Suicide and the forthcoming novel, Freeze Tag on the Highway. Both titles are published by Rock Town Press. (Neither are bestsellers. Anywhere.)
Author, journalist, and jackass, Krans is always searching for the weird, grotesque, and fabulously strange parts of life. His writing and lifestyle reflects that. (He's a tragically cliche Type 4 personality.)
He's cracked ribs on assignment, had a gun pulled on him twice, been banned from volunteer activities, and has more than 20 scars. He's been to John Wayne Gacy's house and used to wave to Jeffrey Dahmer on Catholic school field trips. (Still, Hemmingway and Bukowski make him look like a bitch.)
He is a regular columnist for the website BladeorDie.com. (He co-owns the site.)
