The Death of Comedy

(NOTE: THIS IS A BOOK IN SCREENPLAY-FORMAT)Five Wonderful Stories In One Horrible Arc Stick in the Eye: Alex's story: a weekend in the life of a Las Madres hipster and his best friend Jamie, as they get into trouble with a stolen car, a bottle of tequila, a broken tattoo-gun, and the psycho ex-girlfriend. No good deed goes unpunished, and Alex won't get away without paying his pound of flesh.Flies in Your Ointment: Mike's a guy who doesn't mind getting his hands dirty; he doesn't consider himself above much of anything. He's a humble dude; his roommate Quinn, however, is right out of this world and nothing else in it is what it seems. Sometimes the thing you need most comes at a price you're not ready to bear.The Light at the End of the Tunnel: This is Katie the psycho ex-girlfriend's story, and it's about as funny as a punch in the face. The world is a piece of chewed-up bubble-gum, and the light at the end of the tunnel is utter darkness. The light at the end of the tunnel is you.Barfhogs: People are the worst. You can see it everywhere you look. You can look at it so close, up under the microscope of misery, that it becomes your whole world. Marcus just wants to live clean but the blood he spills stains everything. And those closest to him are the dirtiest. He and Betty and the usual weirdoes are up to the usual funny-business, but no one's laughing any more.End Five: Crumbsnatcher: The sky is falling, but also the dead are rising from their graves, alien fleets are invading from space, and weaponized super-virus germ-cultures are rattling around loose in the backs of semi trucks. Alex has lived with peril his whole life; it's made him tough, hardened. The world's a little darker, a little less friendly, and now he is too. Surviving the day-to-day, the name of the game has always been 'Git Mine, ' until all that's left to snatch is each other's crumbs.Prepare to laugh yourselves into your g