This story has the greatest insults ever put to paper! A man becomes obsessed with an unworthy slob he sees in a local store using coupons and being a generally pain in the butt person who mooches off the hard work and good will of others.
This story had me laughing out loud and realizing you never want to get into an insult contest with Rhatigan. The best story of the bunch is You’re Welcome. This story was a blast from start to finish. With careful research and a willingness to do anything to get his name out to those who may be in need to having someone killed for a reasonable price, it is only a matter of time until he is a renowned hit man.
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The only problem is he has no idea how to make this career change. The Things I Need to be a Hitman: When a career change is needed, the main character decides that becoming a hit man is the way to go.
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Rhatigan has a way of writing plots full of the totally unexpected and this story shows him at his best. Only in a world created by Rhatigan would a hit man simply follow his intended victim through his day and share conversations with him. Man Standing in Front: When the main character wakes up to find a hit man with a gun aimed at him, he imagines the worse. A great little trip through a paranoid mind. All is going well until he begins to get paranoid how easy it is to steal someone’s life and he begins to believe someone is plotting to steal his recently gained life. When every story is good, it is hard to pick favorites, but in the name of a good review, let me give it a try.Ĭreator/Destroyer: A great story about a very odd man who fulfills a fantasy to get a life he loves when he kills a man and moves in with the man’s wife and family.
This collection had nothing but great stories. Rhatigan has a knack for making you laugh out loud, anticipate the next story yet hope the one your reading never ends, and make you wish he put out a book a day. Wake Up, Time to Die by Chris Rhatigan was one of the most enjoyable reads I have had in a while. I found each tale to be unsettling, political, refreshingly honest in terms of the writers’ motivations, superbly written and perfectly rounded off. Next I was reminded of Gregor Samsa when Rhatigan’s character woke to find a gunman at the end of his bed, the gunman intending to follow his victim around all day. Next we’re in the company of Bill Gates (the Bill Gates) as he sets off to rob a local store to get his kicks and encounters a very unusual policeman. Story two sees our protagonist walk out on a good thing and decide upon a life of crime that ends with unexpected consequences. It’s about a man who covets his neighbour’s everything and finds himself taking it all over only to find that protecting his new found success will drive him insane. The opener had me doing double-takes just to make sure I was getting it right. I read this over the Christmas period and found it to be a real antidote to the sense of over-consumption and indulgence. It’s a collection of stories that have been seen before in many fine places and it makes a lot of sense to bring them together. A quick read that packs a heavy punch, this collection of fiction is what words were invented for: entertaining, enlightening, and FUN.”Ĭhris Rhatigan’s Wake Up Time To Die was published recently by Beat To A Pulp. The short stories in Wake Up, Time to Die are rapid-fire projectiles of genre-defying absurdity. “Chris Rhatigan writes sentences like a machine gun shoots bullets. Reality is a fatal disease and this stepped-on high is your cure. “Wake Up, Time To Die is noir cut with Novocain sharp as a junkie’s needle, yet hazy as the morning after.
“Rhatigan is an expert at sketching out incidents that feel real, but are steeped in irony and dark humor.”Īuthor of The Bastard Hand and City of Heretics
Sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing, and always filled with bad coffee and cheap cigarettes, these stories highlight the weird crime side of Chris Rhatigan's repertoire. More convenience store robberies than ten seasons of Cops.
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