After three novels, dynamic and masterful young writer Christian
TeBordo, has finally collected his best short stories in The Awful
Possibilities. A girl among kidney thieves masters the art of
forgetting. A motivational speaker skins his best friend to impress his
wife. A man outlines the rules and regulations for sadistic
child-rearing. A teen in Brooklyn, Iowa, deals with the fallout of his
brother's rise to hip hop fame. Populated with the people we've all
heard whispering in hallways, mumbling in diners, shouting in the
apartment next door, these brilliantly strange set pieces explode the
boundaries of short fiction and locate the awe in the awful
possibilities we could never have imagined.