Tales of a child named Fuck Nut to the coldness that greets all on the skyline over Moscow Congratulations! There’s No Last Place If Everyone Is Dead grasps to go beyond the lines of the absurd, seeking to place a beating heart in all of the dark places it creates.
Originally released as an experiment in handcrafted and home bound chapbooks Congratulations! There’s No Last Place If Everyone Is dead soon became the foundation for Safety Third Enterprises after the first pressing sold out in two days.
Congratulations! There’s No Last Place If Everyone Is dead is the second chapbook authored by Matt DeBenedictis.
Matt DeBenedictis was a pastor. He quit being one while being filmed on a reality TV show. He now writes as a raconteur, a music journalist, and is the founder of Safety Third Enterprises. He has has three chapbooks published and has work featured in DecomP, Lamination Colony, and Dogzplot.
“Despite the darkness, there are brilliant moments of uncomfortable comic absurdity, like the scene in which a teenaged Gary finally gets revenge on his postmortem father. It’s so shocking I couldn’t help but laugh, and it’s these little moments of dark humor that, ironically, make the collection truly shine.” – Mel Bosworth, author of Freight
“I just capital lovedloved this chapbook.” -xTx, author of Normally Special
