Lower Power

LOWER POWER, a short story collection from Matthew Atkinson, is a ten-step program to the wrong kind of spiritual awakening. For those who love violence, love that they love it, and hate that they love that they love it.

Brutal honesty: in these stories bullets fly and knives come out in defiance of the saying that everything happens for a reason. Nowhere escapes the touch of slaughter: the imagination ("Laser Swords for the Bored"), paradise ("The Monk Seal"), transit ("On Rails," "On Rails II"), celebration ("Smoke", "Mr. Victorious"), or American cultural institutions ("Reviled," "Chicken Emotions," "Juvenile").

Once you finally admit you are addicted to carnage you will be ready to give up your wayward ways to a LOWER POWER.

For clarity, this collection includes these stories:

  1. "Reviled"

  2. "On Rails"

  3. "Smoke"

  4. "The Monk Seal"

  5. "On Rails II"

  6. "Chicken Emotions

  7. "Mr. Victorious"

  8. "Run Hide Fail"

  9. "Laser Swords for the Bored"

  10. "Juvenile"