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Crooked cops cover their bodies in chicken blood and living tattoos to protect themselves from the cartels. A Civil War vet tracks his wife's heart across the desert. A detective, poised to take down a local drug ring, is suddenly possessed by the spirit of Sasha Fierce. Shadows drip feathers and wounds bleed ants. Puppets run on human hearts and barfighting hillbillies ride dragons into the sun. OUR BLOOD IN ITS BLIND CIRCUIT is a dark, genre-bending collection of weird crime fiction by the award-winning author of LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY and BY THE TIME WE LEAVE HERE, WE'LL BE FRIENDS.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00HHMC3SG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Broken River Books (December 18, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 18, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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J David Osborne lives in Oklahoma with his wife and son. He's the author of the gulag cannibal novel By the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends, and the red dirt crime series Black Gum.

He hosts the Agitator podcast with Kelby Losack. What began as a tribute to the films of Takashi Miike has spread to other films by Japanese filmmakers, in addition to anime, manga, and the occasional novel. Through recording the podcast week after week, he developed a deep fascination with the cyberpunk genre through the films Akira, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and the manga BLAME!

Gods Fare No Better is a planned ten-book series in which Osborne brings his fascination with animism, architecture, violence, and dick jokes to the cyberpunk genre. As Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the Cyberpunk 2020 TTRPG, says it: "High tech, low life."

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A kick ass collection!

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2014

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These stories are about vulnerable characters with hard exteriors, full of conflicting emotions. J David Osborne is a master storyteller who writes characters so real that you forget that they are fictional. This book is a collection of his best short works. The stories contained here are beautiful and disturbing at the same time. Stephen King called short stories "pop kisses in the dark." These short stories are more like a sucker punch to the kidney in a dimly lit parking lot. Below are some of my thoughts on a few of the stories.

Our Blood In Its Blind Circuit
The first story in this collection makes me imagine Bad Lieutenant made as a Buddy Film and set in El Paso. It is written with raw and brutal honesty. No trace of a hidden, moral judgment agenda can be found here. The story is about two cops that are good friends with bad vices. The author didn't write two petty criminals, he crafted two very well rounded humans with very real emotions.

Zipper's Knee
The second story reminds me of the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll in the book Through the Looking-Glass. A magical-realism streak runs through this one.

Amends Due, West of Glorieta
The third piece is a violent and gritty horror-western story. This one makes the collection that much more diverse and bold.

Three Theories on the Murder of John Wily
A Southern-Gothic story that is on par with the works of writers like Scott Mcclanahan and Donald Ray Pollock.

Vesica
A Bizarro story involving a spaghetti monster. Osborne shows us that he has the skills and the balls to take on any genre.

Tesseract
A subtle but disturbing story about a puppet maker living in a technologically advanced dystopia. This one enters the realm of Science Fiction.

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David Bridges

I feel like Osborne was just flexing his skills here

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2015

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I feel like Osborne was just flexing his skills here. There are a wide range of flavors going on in this book. Noir, horror, weird, bizzaro or whatever you want to label it. I liked every story in the book but I loved a few. The first story which shares a title with the book is about some violent and superstitious cops and it kicks the books of proper. My favorite is a civil war tale of revenge that is brutal and disturbing called Amends Due, West Of Glorieta. It starts out as a hardcore civil war era noir but blends into some creepy cosmic horror, I could've read 300 plus pages of this story. Not only does Osborne switch up genres he also switches up styles. Another story I really liked in this book is called Three Theories On The Murder Of John Wily because it's formatted in a creative way that makes the story much more enjoyable and interesting. Imprinting was super dope too, it's a bit of a mind trip. I was trying to decide if this is my favorite Osborne book but I am having a hard time choosing between Our Blood and Low Down Death Right Easy... Who's cares because they are both awesome books in their own way. J David Osborne is the creator of one of the best most innovative publishers out right now but this book should also substantiate his position as one of the best most innovative writers out there too.

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Scott Adlerberg

Blood that Bends, Curves, Twists

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2014

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I enjoy reading writers who themselves love genre but bend genre conventions in adventurous ways. J David Osborne is that kind of writer, and OUR BLOOD IN ITS BLIND CIRCUIT is a treasure trove of genre twisting. There's a cop story unlike any you'll see in movies or on TV, a detective story built on indeterminacy, a snippet of noir that parodies how noir stories sometimes wallow in miserablism -- all this and much more. Plus, Osborne has a good sense of humor. The story "Cash on the Side" had me laughing out loud, and throughout the stories, there were scenes and conversations that had me chuckling. Osborne is a master of the small detail of surprise. My favorite story "The Thick Fog of the Alabaster Mountains" is a kind of surrealist western that reminded me of the great John Hawkes and his weird western novel THE LIME TWIG. Playful and unpredictable, Osborne has his own view of things, and he conveys his vision in prose that is both evocative and austere. From story to story, you just don't know how developments will unfold, what the characters might do. It's a fun feeling to be kept off balance this way, and through it all, the language is very precise. I look forward to seeing where Osborne's next explorations will lead.

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kelby

Our Blood In Its Blind Circuit

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2014

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This collection shows just about every side possible (you'd think) to the insanely talented J. David Osborne. David excels in the realms of magical realism, crime, noir, Southern Gothic, bizarro, western... and he does so masterfully with his distinct voice stabbing into the heart of each genre and mutilating it to shreds.

Highlights--the stories that are still swimming in my head and will stick with me for a long, long time--are "Amends Due, West of Glorieta," "The Thick Fog of the Alabaster Mountains," "Tesseract," and "Our Blood In Its Blind Circuit."

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Edward V.

Weird Crime

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2014

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This is a nice little collection from writer J. David Osborne. Eclectic, well written and fun to read. It's mostly weird crime tales with some bizarro thrown in for good measure, which makes for an odd ensemble that works surprisingly well. I really enjoyed this and look forward to more of his work.

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Maxwell Patterson

A Solid Collection of Mixed Genre Short Stories

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2018

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It may not be the most cohesive short story collection, but a fascinating example of a talented author striking out in a variety of directions.

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Steven Davis

damnit... this kid can WRITE!

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2014

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It really isn't fair. If one has the gift for writing novels, one should have difficulty writing short stories... For some reason, j David osborne does all of these things with ease and precision. Maybe he rescued kittens in a past life... Who can know? Brilliant, brilliant, engaging book!

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Ryan Bracha

I have no idea what I just read, but...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2014

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Broken River Books head honcho J. David Osborne is a writer that intrigues me. His extremely strong online presence has caught my eye on several occasions, not to mention the absolute works of art that are the covers of the books his imprint puts out. So when Our Blood in its Blind Circuit was available as a special offer I took the plunge and downloaded it to see what depths of darkness this intriguing mind was capable of creating, and whether it was a case of severe style over substance. Take it from me, it’s dark as hell, and this confident writer more than fulfils the promise that the phenomenal imagery of the cover makes.

It’s a series of shorts and flash fiction that have been available in other places at some point over the last few years, and have now been collected and turn into a genre straddling, surrealist and nightmarish anthology which demonstrates exactly how talented a writer Osborne is. His stories are thick with descriptive prose that drips from the page, slithers up into your eyeballs and feasts on your mind, spitting out pitch black imagery and tortured souls that stay with you long after your window to their world slams shut.

The stand out tales for me, by an absolute mile were ‘Amends Due, West of Glorieta’, ‘Cash on the Side’, ‘The Thick Fog of the Alabaster Mountains’, and ‘Three Theories on the Murder of John Wily’. On the strength of this collection I will certainly be taking another venture into the twisted imagination of J. David Osborne, and you really ought to do the same yourself. Highly recommended reading.

M Stanley

Surreal and bizarre short fiction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2014

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Our Blood In Its Blind Circuit is published by Broken River, run by J. David Osborne, and is a collection of his short fiction. Most of the stories have both feet firmly in surreal territory (Kafkaesque in some cases, and like hallucinatory American writer John Hawkes in others). Bleak black humour abounds, as do massive and radical disjunctures from traditional storytelling, in tales that effortlessly straddle the worlds of nightmare and reality. Whether it’s two corrupt Mexican police officers obsessed with dark magic in the title story, the nightmarish western Amends Due, West of Glorieta, or the strange and compelling tale of drug dealers, police and a man whose body is inhabited by a lot of very unwelcome guests in The Thick Fog Of The Alabaster Mountains, these tales meld body horror, grim violence, ethereal strangeness, altered realities and strange black humour. The tales glitter brightly in clipped, clear prose before burning away just as vividly like flies in a zapper. Other tales that made a strong impression were Imprinting and the superb Three Theories on The Murder of John Wily, which reminded me of Jorge Luis Borges in the way it was structured and written. Highly recommended.

Hakim Briki

Mind-bending fiction.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2014

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Reading Our Blood In Its Blind Circuit was, in some way, the literary equivalent of listening to a Mr. Bungle album. Just like "California" or "Disco Volante" this opus spans genres galore: from Noir to Bizarro to crime to western-horror to science-fiction... I lost count !

The sheer brilliance and imagination of the short stories collected in the book blew me away. As each story unfolds, we are introduced to fascinating characters and truly amazing ideas that are, for the most part, very-well executed. My favorite of the bunch is "Amends Due, West of Glorieta", which is a heart-wrenching western story about revenge, and love.
"Tesseract", "Imprinting", "Three Theories on the Murder of John Wily" and "The Thick Fog of the Alabaster Mountains" also struck a big chord.

The realm of J David Osborne's imagination is unlike anything I have ever experienced. Next stop : "Low Down Death Right Easy".

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