Morsels of Mayhem
Three dark stories and one brutally personal reflection offer an unsettling first taste of Mark Tullius’s horror, crime, violence, and fight to repair a damaged brain.
Morsels of Mayhem offers four concentrated encounters with damage. Three fictional stories explore a father ignored by his family, a gang member drawn into a church where something is terribly wrong, and a cameraman caught in the aftermath of exposing a sex-trafficking ring. The final piece turns inward as Mark Tullius confronts the physical and emotional price of a life spent in football, boxing, mixed martial arts, and other forms of punishment. The collection is short enough to read in one sitting but broad enough to introduce the central concerns that run through Tullius’s catalog: violence, family, guilt, altered minds, and the possibility of repair. Used as a Vincere Press reader magnet, it should guide horror readers toward Twisted Reunion and Untold Mayhem while guiding memoir and sports readers toward TBI or CTE: What the Hell Is Wrong with Me?