Watch You Drown [Kindle Edition]

Chris Rhatigan (Author), Jason Michel (Illustrator)

Book Description

From the mind of Chris Rhatigan, Watch You Drown includes fourteen tales of modern crime. Kleptos stealing, dealers dealing, grifters grifting.

These characters drift through ordinary places -- gas stations and big-box stores, shabby apartments and urine-soaked alleys -- screwing everything up as they go, leaving behind the nauseating stank of desperation. In Rhatigan's world, there are no winners, only people who haven't lost yet.

Watch You Drown is sometimes wrenching, sometimes surreal, sometimes disgusting, and always noir.

Product Details

• File Size: 141 KB
• Print Length: 50 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: PULP METAL FICTION (January 20, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0070BFZW0
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,631 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great title for a great collection February 5, 2012

By pattinase

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What is most interesting to me as someone old enough to be Chris' parent, is how the new stories coming out by writers like Chris are so in tune with the new world we inhabit. Chris' stories are set in places like Staples or Target. The tortured people he writes about are earning minimum wage at best and their crime are driven by drugs. booze, desperation and the like. They feature people on the edge of the precipice who fall off more than hang on. This is the future if we let it happen.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Rising Star January 22, 2012

By nigel p bird

Format:Kindle Edition

Chris Rhatigan has been making a big splash in the world of fiction. He specialises in short fiction and is a real craftsman of the art.

Not only does he put out great work, he's a reviewer and an editor and this puts him at the cutting edge.

What I admire in this collection is two-fold. First of all, it's lean and stripped of the unnecessary yet remains juicy and plump at the same time. The stories a rich and the worlds have all the dimensions I could want as a reader.

The second reason is connected with his diversity - the themes, voices, territories and genres are really varied as is the length; he can thrill with a piece of micro-fiction, flash and short without faltering or losing his edge in any of these formats.

It's a really poweful mix you'll find here and I hope that your prepared to jump into its icy waters (for dark and chilled they mainly are) - I guarantee that you'll be woken up with a start and that you'll be diving straight back for more.

Only negative for me is the cover - and that's not the way I judge a book, no way.

Superb.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Collection May 20, 2012

By Jason Armstrong

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This is a great collection of crime and noir stories full of losers and low-life's. It's sad and brutal. And f-ing awesome.

More About the Author

Chris Rhatigan is a crime and weird fiction writer. He is the co-editor of the anthology Pulp Ink, which was short-listed for a Spinetingler Award. A collection of his short stories, Watch You Drown, is available as a free download. He is also editor of the zine All Due Respect. He lives in Mussoorie, India, where he teaches history and journalism at Woodstock School.