“Through a teaching method of specific writing prompts, Mazza provides a clear start and finish for this journal. A variety of prompts is included in each section; you choose the ones that seem the most meaningful to you, grab a pen, and get down to business. So blow your top! Have kittens! Get a bee in your bonnet! Now you'll have the perfect outlet--it sure beats road rage.” - Jill Lightner
Read More"Assembled from soundbites, lists, landscapes, and found objects, Craig Foltz’s writing chases the day to day lives of our contemporaries down absurdist avenues..."
Read MoreThe year is 1971, the place is California, and what never seemed possible suddenly becomes irresistible. Camping on the shores of Fallen Lake in the high Sierra, two couples swap partners and glimpse paradise. That night changes the course of their lives and their children's as the two marriages become one. The families move in together in suburban Pleasant Valley, the exhilarated adults pursuing their four-sided relationship and their dream careers. At first resentful of this upheaval, the children find unexpected advantages. But the door flung open by the sexual revolution is starting to close. Too late the lovers realize what they will have to pay for living out their fantasies.
Read More“...a strong offbeat literary voice...with a fabulist element to it...almost, but not quite, fairy tale like but for adults. I was reminded of Donald Barthelme when he was doing stuff like Dead Father and Robert Coover when he was doing stuff like Pricksongs and Descants.” –Alan Catlin, editor of Misfit Magazine
Read More“The main point about these stories is deep emotion and concrete theme. We notice very impressive ardour of imagination in these stories.”
Read More“It’s a catalog that you can’t order anything from. A manual with no instructions. In Sharpen, Rich Ives takes the reader through a series of meditations inspired by tools, bodies, and stranger things. A mix of the surreal and the mundane, these short fictions deal with father-daughter relationships, communication, and intellect, sometimes discarding conventional grammar in favor of a language of emotion.”
Read More“The Short stories in A Servant's Map of the Body Stories by leave an impression that the American short-story writers are unique and excellent. The author reveals solitude and sorrow in their short stories, reminding us of Richard Yates' (1926-1992) collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962).”
Read More“Tunneling to the Moon: A Psychological Gardener's Book of Days draws from fairy tales, a condescending of a 1938 Social Studies reader for 6th grade, an 1890 handbook on marital compatibility, numerous annoying educational advancement studies, the myths and legends of third-world countries and minority peoples, pulp fiction, a history of carnival side shows, folktales, frequent conversations with Crows, Owls and a wide variety of underground inhabitants, insects and the people who collect them, Joseph Cornell, Günter Eich, Russell Edson, the French Surrealist poets, the Quay Brothers, letterpress printing, and the author's inability to channel his imagination linearly.”
Read More“Doctor Scream, American billionaire, is in Ireland to set up a Donut Factory. He’s got permission from the Irish government to put his workers on drugs for a year. The drug Scream has developed, The Donut Hole, enables people to work longer, stronger and faster. It also sharpens their intelligence like a pencil parer. Or so he claims.”
Read More“If you've always suspected that something was missing from and not quite right with modern fiction, you'll be glad all over to read the following lightbulber; you were right all along. Therefore, swallow the red pill by taking Camillus John's jazzy hand in yours on his Pervert's Guide to Modern Fiction for over three hundred transgressive pages.”
Read More“With long gold trumpets and short tight trousers Ballyer Press introduces Camillus John's sixth book, a collection of flash fiction, Shyness Is Lice. Fictionmongery of the tip toppest. From the wild frontiers of alternative literature.”
Read More“Sara Brody thought she had met her soulmate in Tad Bolak, a charming exchange student. Their whirlwind romance includes nights staring at the stars, declarations of love, and promises to talk often when Tad must return to his native Poland to complete his Master’s Degree. But Sara’s idealistic view of Tad and plans to be together when he gets his degree come to a shattering halt when he admits to having a fiancee back home.”
Read MoreNow Leaving Nowheresville is a neo-Kafka-esque collection of short stories about the weirdness that is life in the U.S. It contains a novella about a collective of artists searching for transcendence while trapped in a Winesburg, Ohio not of their own making.
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"The stories of Convulsive dazzle and stun the reader with brutal beauty and surreal intensity. This collection's deftly subversive themes and stylistic complexity dare you to witness its unique and transgressive radiance." - Tiffany Morris, author of Havoc In Silence
Read More“That surreality might be my favorite thing Joe does with their stories, but also The Couvade is full of heart, a relationship that changes with the story's themes so that what's said becomes what's felt, thought turning to instinct. It happens subtly, and my head was swimming in every emotion and revelation by the end.”
Read More"Invaginies is Koch's nastiest and most formally daring collection yet, a glistening tangle of poetic viscera dragged out into the light and impossible to look away from." - Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt
Read MoreEdited by Joe Koch and Sam Richard, Stories of the Eye collects thirteen visions of modern horror that dissects the relationship between artist and model, exposing the spaces the eye is tricked into missing where we witness the beautiful and monstrous intricacies of making and being made.
Read More"I'm awestruck by Joe Koch's nonstop spellbinding, almost paralyzingly inventive and yet propulsive, ultra-focused prose. The Wingspan of Severed Hands is a truly amazing find." - Dennis Cooper (The Marbled Swarm, The Sluts)
Read More“In the stories of Brigitte Lewis the sacred and the profane refuse tidy categories and instead erupt into messy, humorous, and profound elucidations about what it means to be in a body that loves other bodies. Here are stories that work like alchemy works—the mythical past and the uncertain present conjunct in an invitation to see ourselves anew.” —Selah Saterstrom, author of Ideal Suggestions and Slab.
Read More"'I know nothing about death, absolutely nothing,' asserts the narrator of this inventive autobiographical novel. Yet he can't stop thinking about it..."
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