Collision Cocktail: A Dangerous Fiction Mix By Matthew Louis

Matthew Louis tears down genre barriers, mixing crime, comedy and tragedy in this brutal, hilarious mashup of short fiction.

Louis takes you along as a pair of friends attempt to rob a convenience store with squirt guns, as a crooked manager sabotages his own fighter by concealing steel plates in the opponent's gloves, and as a five-year-old Mickey Spillane delivers a side-splitting narrative about his red crayon. A novel unfolds in under 1,000 words as a small-time gang commits an unthinkable crime to spite a larger syndicate, and Louis even visits the zombie apolcalypse, describing an amoral stuntman using the end of the world as his chance to make Hollywood's number one starlet the first member of his harem.

In these and other outrageously entertaining stories we learn why Matthew Louis was the brains and drive behind Out of the Gutter, the anarchic pulp fiction journal that offered "More stimulation per ounce than crystal meth!"