Catawampus Tales
Subtitle: Fast food for the mind
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Van Fleet Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oregon, USA
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 149
Description: Catawampus Tales run the gambit from sci-fi to satire, horror, and everything in between. Each story is somewhat askew or catawampus—a mixed-bag of fast food for the mind.
	What if there really was such a thing as a superhero, what problems might he or she face? Supermale's Gone and Left Us provides some humorous answers.
	A horny bachelor goes looking for a streetwalker and runs into trouble with gangbangers in When Push Comes to Shove.
	A nerd wakes up in Sugar and the Bikers in a room in which he did not fall asleep. A peevish individual informs him that he left the nerd’s pretty wife downtown with a couple of bikers.
	Zombie Fight Song tells the story of how a college boy inadvertently finds the perfect cure for womanizing. 
	In Oh, That Catherine the Great, an insecure young man at lunch with his boss and two co-workers encounters some strange conversation.
	Trials of a Vampire Hunter begins where most vampire tales end. A vampire hunter is apprehended by the police just after he drives a stake through his quarry’s heart. 
	A shy, little man is miserable because he lacks the ability to make Small Talk. How does he overcome his social ineptitude? 
	In The Incendiary Man, a group of people are on the run from a fiery monster. Funny thing is nobody seems to be aware of this menace but them.
	An immature, out-of-work daydreamer buys a Saturday night special and plots a murder in Unemployment Benefits.
Table of contents: title: Catawampus Tales; title: Supermale’s Gone and Left Us; title: The straw that broke the superhero’s back; title: When Push Comes to Shove; title: An irresistible force meets a movable object; title: Sugar and the Bikers; title: A stranger in his bed; title: Zombie Fight Song; title: The perfect cure for a womanizer; title: Oh, That Catherine the Great!; title: A different kind of women’s story; title: Trials of a Vampire Hunter; title: The story begins where other vampire tales end; title: Small Talk; title: How to hold a conversation with boneheads; title: The Incendiary Man; title: There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight; title: Unemployment Benefits; title: Idle hands are the devil’s workshop