Statue of Limitations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781942086239)

State-approved euthanasia nachos with cheerful cartoon branding. A nuclear reactor poured into a Midwestern arboretum because zoning laws gave up. A lost Twilight Zone episode from 1963 that somehow predicts ChatGPT. A toddler named LOL. These are just a few of the dispatches found in Statue of Limitations, Jon Konrath's latest collection of flash fiction, micro-stories, and narrative shrapnel. Across thirty-two pieces, Konrath delivers a savage, funny, and deeply disorienting tour of a parallel America-one that feels only a half-step removed from our own.

Moving fluidly between dreams, confessions, cultural critique, and outright hallucination, Statue of Limitations assembles a warped reality built from malls, airports, chain restaurants, government buildings, abandoned media formats, and half-remembered pop culture debris. These familiar spaces become pressure chambers where stories spiral into paranoia, regret, and existential panic.

The author of the cult classic Rumored to Exist blends technical jargon, footnote-worthy trivia, and deadpan absurdity with moments of surprising emotional clarity. The result is a voice that feels like equal parts stand-up monologue, fever dream, and end-of-days field report-abrasive, relentless, and precise.

Beneath the book's relentless humor lies a deeper unease. Statue of Limitations is haunted by aging, obsolescence, institutional decay, and the quiet terror of realizing the past is unreachable. It skewers nostalgia even as it drowns in it, daring readers to laugh while recognizing themselves in the wreckage.

This book is for readers who value experimental fiction, dark satire, and uncompromising voices that refuse to sand down the edges. It rewards close reading, masochistic curiosity, and a tolerance for chaos-and it lingers long after the final page, like a radio signal bleeding through static from a future that feels uncomfortably close.