The vet who helps him recognizes the animal, and in a moment of comeuppance confesses something horrible he did to a cat in his childhood.Ī woman imagines a stick-figure on the edge of a toilet paper roll and relates the image to her personal life.Ī college student retrieves a lost phone while studying for his vet school midterm.ĭougie, a mentally disabled man who lives above his parents, obsesses about a young woman who works in a convenience store across the street. Narratives AuthorĪfter suffering humiliation and bullying, three high-school girls plan to commit suicide by following a Japanese guide on the internet.Ī man comes into a veterinarian clinic late at night, holding a battered and tortured cat in his arms. Palahniuk then selected and edited 20 of these for publication in the collection.
72 stories were submitted to the fan-made Palahniuk website "The Cult," and then put through a vetting process.
Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive fiction stories written by multiple authors, edited by Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer.
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