3 Hard Tales by Patrick Kill

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3 Hard Tales, Book 1 in the ‘3 Tales Trilogy’ from Patrick Kill: The Patron Saint of Degenerate Fiction

Patrick Kill doesn’t just cross lines—he gleefully body-slams them, burns the remains, and then throws a middle finger to polite society. Specializing in what could best be described as absurdist splatter satire, Kill occupies a rare and feral corner of dark fiction where the grotesque, the obscene, and the brutally hilarious meet in a blood-soaked handshake. His stories, like those in 3 Hard Tales, are radioactive with unfiltered rage, bodily horror, sexual chaos, and socio-religious mockery—yet told with such precision, dark wit, and momentum that even the most shocked reader can’t look away.

Kill’s work is unapologetically offensive, purposefully crude, and yet intellectually subversive in how it exposes the rot at the core of modern life: the suffocating banality of the workplace, the cartoonish idiocy of American masculinity, the plastic holiness of religious hypocrisy, and the toxicity (both literal and figurative) of post-industrial culture. His fiction is not for everyone—nor does it try to be. His ideal reader is someone who’s already chewed through Palahniuk, Dennis Cooper, and early Bret Easton Ellis, and is still hungry for something rawer, meaner, and far more perverse.

While the literary establishment might flinch at Kill’s name, he belongs firmly within the tradition of transgressive fiction. His work echoes the irreverent surrealism of William Burroughs and the punk nihilism of early zines, updated for the reality-TV, opioid-plagued, late-capitalist hellscape we currently call home.

In short, Patrick Kill writes for the damned, the disillusioned, and the dangerously amused. If you’ve ever laughed at something you knew you shouldn’t—or felt seen by a monster—you’ve already stepped into his world.

Stories include:

• “Tequila Son”
• “Bitchslapped”
• “Luster”