Burnt Tongues

Full disclosure: I am one of the writers who is lucky enough to have a story in this collection, so a rating of Five Stars must be oozing with personal bias, right? Well, yeah, maybe a little, but hear me out! If you're like me, you typically take anthologies with a baseball-sized grain of salt - es......more

The fact that a fair number of the glowing reviews here were written by those who have stories included in this collection is fairly telling. This collection is really a massive disappointment considering Palahniuk himself stamped it with his name. For the most part, it includes authors trying to ap......more

There’s nothing quite as satisfying as the short story. This anthology—case and point. The spokes…thing for a bastard genre long forgotten by a generation of “obese novel” enthusiasts. The top result in a Google search query. The banned book that’s yet to be discovered by Tipper Gore. The so obscene......more

A lot of these read as Palahniuk-lite, which I suppose gives me a whole new appreciation for him as an author because the lite versions here rarely come close to being as exciting as his writing used to be. There's a story about women who have sex with dogs that sort of feels like it's trying to har......more

This review was originally published on www.litdemon.com The first story I read in the workshop where the Burnt Tongues anthology was conceived was “Heavier Petting.” It’s featured in this collection, naturally. After reading it, my innocence was forever ruined. I caught the infectious writing bug. T......more