Fiction - Absurdist

Both Eerie and Subversive Invisible Bridges explores the oddness behind human decisions and desires.Readers of psychological fiction and stream-of-consciousness narratives will enjoy this eclectic and compelling short story collection by author Richard Dragan. Anchored by the acclaimed title story, "The Builder of Invisible Bridges,"...

* A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction * "I'm in love with a grieving misfit driving around with a donkey-shaped piñata in an old van...

They tell us the journey is the destination. It is not. It's the other way... The destination is where the journey takes place. That destination, it is escape from The White Curtain. In order to live the life we want, we must have the...

A time-travel prototype lands in a Viking village. A horse-riding fiddler crab reveals his secret. A despotic tyrant is confronted by a penguin. Each story is "an imaginative gem... funny, charming, surprising" (Don Ferguson, Royal Canadian Air Farce) with a writing style that's "tight,...

A mystical snow wizard offers his neighbour a chance at eternal life. A grizzly waiting tables reconsiders his life choices. A Manitobe misanthrope reaches for the stars. Two hitchhikers turn an introverted man's life upside down. A bee witnesses a plot by four inept...

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again--whatever that means. For fans of Patricia Lockwood and Marlowe Granados--a whip-smart, absurdly funny debut...

Author: Alan DonnellISBN-10: 1039155294ISBN-13: 9781039155299Publisher: FriesenPressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2023Pages: 306Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

"Mr. Melvin Levin, I'm going to kill you."The Threat tells the darkly comic story of Melvin Levin, a middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his dull and mediocre life. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Terrified at first,...

Adam, a big-city slicker from the East has his life upheaved when an infamous outlaw steals his dog. Adam journeys West and then some, with the help of a legendary bounty hunter known as The Boots of Wrath. However, things take a... and I...

This third perspective on myself is disconcerting. The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she...

Author: John F. D. TaffISBN-10: 1685100961ISBN-13: 9781685100964Publisher: Trepidatio PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2023Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/02/2023

Author: Robert P. OttoneISBN-10: 1957121610ISBN-13: 9781957121611Publisher: Weird House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2023Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

"Mr. Melvin Levin, I'm going to kill you."The Threat tells the darkly comic story of Melvin Levin, a middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his dull and mediocre life. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Terrified at first,...

Author: Chandler MorrisonISBN-10: 1639510281ISBN-13: 9781639510283Publisher: Death's Head PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2020Pages: 200Format: PaperbackAbout the AuthorBrian Asman is the author of I'm Not Even Supposed to Be Here Today from Eraserhead Press, Jailbroke, Nunchuck City, and Man, F*ck This House from Mutated Media. He's recently published...

The short stories in Brian Coughlan's Don't Mind Me dig deep into what it means to live in an increasingly connected, but isolated modern world that demands far more than we can possibly hope to provide. A couple with financial problems encounter an over-bearing...

Author: Esther YiISBN-10: 166260274XISBN-13: 9781662602740Publisher: Astra HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2024Pages: 224Format: Paperback

From the critically acclaimed author of The Heap, a thought-provoking and wryly funny novel--equal parts satire and psychological thriller--that holds a funhouse mirror to the isolated workplace and an age of endless distraction. At the far reaches of the world, the Northern Institute sits...

Author: Michael Anthony WhiteISBN-10: 1737792184ISBN-13: 9781737792185Publisher: Vox GeekusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2023Pages: 78Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 8.50h x 11.00w x 0.31d

God has lost the plot. He spends his days Sweeney-like in the trees killing birds, or crawling through the bushes to watch humans at their rut. His only companion and sole remaining attendant, a withered and tortured scribe, chronicles the Lord's descent into madness...

Jim Paul muses on Western philosophy and the medieval mind as he makes his way through a harried weekend in Los Angeles, yielding a "delightful...humorous" book (Bloomsbury Review) whose every "sentence bursts with information, gorgeously put" (New Yorker).Author: Jim PaulISBN-10: 0156005379ISBN-13: 9780156005371Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage:...