Dennis Latham: Life, Fiction, and the Pursuit of Madness

Working at the car wash...is this one of those new jobs the government keeps bragging about to replace all the high paying jobs eliminated in recession? These recent college grads are finding out. The Tax Code <><><> The tax code has something like 19,879 pages. The questions Americans should demand to know is why this is possible? You work for money and you pay taxes. Why would anyone need over 19,000 pages to tell you how to pay taxes? How did this get so out of hand. No one at the IRS could possibly know all 19000 pages. It's like Obama's health care. It's 2500 or more pages. How is that possible? How was it passed without anyone who voted on it having read the thing? America is in a Twilight Zone story.   Smoking at the VA When I parked at the VA, right near the door there was a huge older fat woman with an oxygen tank sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette. I tried to stop myself, but I couldn't. As I walked past her I said, ...

The cover represents this twisted telling of the possible second coming of Christ. Meet the Lord of Homicides Since I write comedy or satire, I have to admit I had a ball writing this book. My version of demons and angels as being a little simple and on the dumb side allowed me to create an entire new world. Lucifer had a change of heart, came back to earth as mother Teresa, and went back to Heaven. This left all of Hell and earth to be run by a demon named Balberith, known as the Lord of Homicides. He has figured out that Nathan Bright, a drunken Indiana gambler, could possibly be the second coming of Christ because he is the first human to ever see them. Things really get screwed up when millions of demons come to live with Nathan so their boss can watch him. The novel has a cast of bizarre characters and sub-plots involving terrorists and the war between good and evil. Michael the Archangel and his outnumbered legions try to continue their endless war to save humanity wit...