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  • God's Leftovers by Wamack, Grant
    Grant Wamack

    God's Leftovers

    A young couple, a religious man, a gritty rapper, and a sublime videographer get stranded together in the desert. Little do they know, they'll cross paths in a bloody fashion with one another as well as a hippie cult that has a fetish for...
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  • Hospital!: A Medical Satire of Unhealthy Proportions by Jones, Kyle Bradford
    Kyle Bradford Jones

    Hospital!: A Medical Satire of Unhealthy Proportions

    Dr. Camus is a jerk. The whole hospital loathes him. His patients loathe him. And the hospital's CEO really loathes him. The staff want him to just take the blue pill from The Matrix and wake up to reality-or is it the green pill?...
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  • Nearly Christmas by Power, Derek
    Derek Power

    Nearly Christmas

    Mortals magically murdered generally is enough to get Filthy Henry, Ireland's first and foremost fairy detective, involved in the case. But when those murders happen on Halloween there is even more reason for him to investigate what is going on. As the walls between...
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  • The Wake and the Manuscript by Allen, Ansgar
    Ansgar Allen

    The Wake and the Manuscript

    In this brooding and obsessive novel, Ansgar Allen recounts the story of a nameless man who attends a funerary wake with no other distraction than papers that once belonged to the body on display. The deceased considered the papers to be his magnum opus,...
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  • D. D. Murphry, Secret Policeman by Clark, Alan M.
    Alan M. Clark

    D. D. Murphry, Secret Policeman

    Will the secret policeman crack the case, or is he, himself, just cracked? D.D. Murphry poses as a homeless man while secretly working for the True Government. With words as his sidekick, he can read the coded messages-instructions from his employer-hidden in almost any...
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  • The Ultimate Dinosaur Dance-Off by Stone, Andrew J.
    Andrew J. Stone

    The Ultimate Dinosaur Dance-Off

    With an Apatosaurus as a guide, Colin and Emma must dance their way through the Days of the Dinosaur-an island in a psychedelic prehistoric times-to rescue their friend Joe from the Tyrannosaurus Rex. But Colin has another mission: To gain the love of Rose,...
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  • Newborn Pink by Langhans, Shawn Wayne
    Shawn Wayne Langhans

    Newborn Pink

    Paulie Galamb is the hapless hero of this story, no matter if he likes it or not. The unattractive, unassuming divorcee was good at his job as a taste-tester of lab-grown meats - until his body turned against him.All Paulie ever wanted was to...
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  • Newborn Pink by Langhans, Shawn Wayne
    Shawn Wayne Langhans

    Newborn Pink

    Paulie Galamb is the hapless hero of this story, no matter if he likes it or not. The unattractive, unassuming divorcee was good at his job as a taste-tester of lab-grown meats - until his body turned against him.All Paulie ever wanted was to...
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  • Newborn Pink by Langhans, Shawn Wayne
    Shawn Wayne Langhans

    Newborn Pink

    Paulie Galamb is the hapless hero of this story, no matter if he likes it or not. The unattractive, unassuming divorcee was good at his job as a taste-tester of lab-grown meats - until his body turned against him.All Paulie ever wanted was to...
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  • Newborn Pink by Langhans, Shawn Wayne
    Shawn Wayne Langhans

    Newborn Pink

    Paulie Galamb is the hapless hero of this story, no matter if he likes it or not. The unattractive, unassuming divorcee was good at his job as a taste-tester of lab-grown meats - until his body turned against him.All Paulie ever wanted was to...
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  • Newborn Pink by Langhans, Shawn Wayne
    Shawn Wayne Langhans

    Newborn Pink

    Paulie Galamb is the hapless hero of this story, no matter if he likes it or not. The unattractive, unassuming divorcee was good at his job as a taste-tester of lab-grown meats - until his body turned against him.All Paulie ever wanted was to...
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  • Hitman (a récit) by Krendel-Clark, James
    James Krendel-Clark

    Hitman (a r馗it)

    "Darby Frown has had it up to here with bourgeois respectability and lives out his relentless quest for clarity as a rough-and-tumble hitman while participating in surface reality just enough to seem almost human. Are his crimes real or only imagined? Is his ruthless...
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  • The Trial by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Trial

    Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did...
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  • Seven Stages by Peckett, Ian Meacheam &. Mark
    Ian Meacheam &. Mark Peckett

    Seven Stages

    Growing old - it's not for weaklings, but neither is growing up ...as these stories show.Author: Ian Meacheam &. Mark PeckettISBN-10: 8215384226ISBN-13: 9798215384220Publisher: APS BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/16/2022Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
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  • The Taxidermied Man by Morris, Jacy
    Jacy Morris

    The Taxidermied Man

    Bud got stuffed, and now he has a front row seat to the downfall of man.Suffering from early-onset dementia due to alcoholism, Bud wants nothing more than to be there for his wife forever-so he has his body stuffed. Unfortunately, his wife is not...
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  • Tales of American Idiocy by Infidel, P. R.
    P. R. Infidel

    Tales of American Idiocy

    "Soon the humans will all wear muzzles and be chained to their homes by their great glowing boxes!" This announcement by Chester stopped the meeting of the pets of Sunnyside Street cold. Not that they were surprised by the neighborhood conspiracy cat. Chester was...
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  • The Thing in the Snow by Adams, Sean
    Sean Adams

    The Thing in the Snow

    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...
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  • Life Ceremony: Stories by Murata, Sayaka
    Sayaka Murata

    Life Ceremony: Stories

    The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever...
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  • Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel by O'Keefe, Rob Roy
    Rob Roy O'Keefe

    Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel

    The Town Administrator is extorting residents!Subversive senior citizens are on the march!Crazed ponies rampage through the streets!Exclamation marks keep popping! up! everywhere! Duncan and Maya Small have just relocated to a new town. Again. And almost immediately, Duncan is ready to move on thanks...
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  • Crocanthropus by Walters, Ian
    Ian Walters

    Crocanthropus

    Crocanthropus is an absurdist humorous short novel that proposes an evolutionary mistake that produces a crocodile-ancestored creature taking hominid form. The creature brings grief to all that encounter it. It combines the horrific legacy of a reptilian past, a feral child, and narcissist personality....
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  • Breaking Bizarro by Comunale, John Wayne
    John Wayne Comunale

    Breaking Bizarro

    Author: John Wayne ComunaleISBN-10: 1639510680ISBN-13: 9781639510689Publisher: Death's Head PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2019Pages: 339Format: Paperback
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  • Good Boy: Volume 2 by Gunn, Garrett
    Garrett Gunn

    Good Boy: Volume 2

    Flint's retirement is pushed off when he gets caught up in a rival's revenge plan. With revenge in his rearview mirror, Flint heads for The Farm; a peaceful community for retired and deactivated Guild members. But his dreams are short- lived when he finds...
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  • Life Ceremony: Stories by Murata, Sayaka
    Sayaka Murata

    Life Ceremony: Stories

    The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever...
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  • I'll Be: Volume 155 by Gaudio, Claudio
    Claudio Gaudio

    I'll Be: Volume 155

    At the heart of I'll Be resides a highly unreliable narrator. As he fumbles through his days, he breaks boundaries that are larger than the seemingly insignificant tasks at hand: the concept of space is uncertain, language is broken, history is rewritten, identity itself...
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  • Invention Is a Mother by Brownell, Rob
    Rob Brownell

    Invention Is a Mother

    "Invention Is a Mother is a sharp, wickedly funny look at science, fiction, life, death, pitch meetings, insane flights of fancy, and technology that will either kill you or save you. It made me laugh in despair and laugh in joy. I loved it."-Will...
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  • People With Problems: illustrated stories by Dillon, Zachary
    Zachary Dillon

    People With Problems: illustrated stories

    A man wakes to find his arm has detached and crawled downstairs...The Paradox Manifestation Department saves a baby from a crocodile...A mechanic dreams of fame and fortune while working on a car infested with tiny clowns...In these twenty-nine flash fiction stories, Zachary Dillon exercises...
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  • Earth Angel by Cash, Madeline
    Madeline Cash

    Earth Angel

    In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, sublime, life-affirming collage of stories.Earth Angel is a book like no other, the paperback that swallowed the smartphone. An Isis recruit, an adolescent beauty queen, and a childless...
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  • Rebel Without A Mask: A Sci Fi Comedy That Takes No Prisoners by Noor, Kerrie A.
    Kerrie A. Noor

    Rebel Without A Mask: A Sci Fi Comedy That Takes No Prisoners

    Corona Virus has arrived on Planet Hyman, and only Beryl and Legless can help, a couple at war with their past. Will they rise to the occasion or fall out for good?Planet Hy Man is under the leadership of H2, who has as much...
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  • Anthem by Rand, Ayn
    Ayn Rand

    Anthem

    Ayn Rand published her book, Anthem, in 1946. In the included foreword she provided, she bemoaned "people who accept collectivism by moral default" despite there being ample evidence of the bloody consequences of that approach. "Those who refuse to see it now are neither...
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  • Show Them a Good Time by Flattery, Nicole
    Nicole Flattery

    Show Them a Good Time

    "Show Them a Good Time is a master class in the short story-bold, irreverent and agonizingly funny." Sally Rooney, Author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends Show Them a Good Time tells the stories of women slotted away into restrictive roles: the celebrity's...
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  • Man or Mango?: A Lament by Ellmann, Lucy
    Lucy Ellmann

    Man or Mango?: A Lament

    By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love. Reclusive Elo?e lives with her cats and her cello in an English country cottage, privately building a case against men, women,...
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  • Bob: The Right Hand of God by Bertram, Pat
    Pat Bertram

    Bob: The Right Hand of God

    All Chet Thomlin wants is to be left alone to care for the abandoned and neglected animals at his store, Used Pets, but his obnoxious customers and clinging mother make life miserable. And nothing ever seems to change.On April Fool's day, a gnome-like little...
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  • Healing Brian Esseintes by Prousky, Brian
    Brian Prousky

    Healing Brian Esseintes

    At the centre of this unusual novel of chapter-long sentences lies an unusual protagonist. The survivor of a near-catastrophic fall, he finds himself possessed by peculiar, residual behaviours, the most peculiar of which is a compulsion to expel every drop of pleasure from his...
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  • Healing Brian Esseintes by Prousky, Brian
    Brian Prousky

    Healing Brian Esseintes

    At the centre of this unusual novel of chapter-long sentences lies an unusual protagonist. The survivor of a near-catastrophic fall, he finds himself possessed by peculiar, residual behaviours, the most peculiar of which is a compulsion to expel every drop of pleasure from his...
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  • Healing Brian Esseintes by Prousky, Brian
    Brian Prousky

    Healing Brian Esseintes

    At the centre of this unusual novel of chapter-long sentences lies an unusual protagonist. The survivor of a near-catastrophic fall, he finds himself possessed by peculiar, residual behaviours, the most peculiar of which is a compulsion to expel every drop of pleasure from his...
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  • A Taste of Heaven: Short Fictions by Bennett, R. Sebastian
    R. Sebastian Bennett

    A Taste of Heaven: Short Fictions

    In an atmospheric, panoramic journey stretching from Louisiana's Cajun territory and Florida's alligator-ridden swamps to the subway tunnels of 1980s Tokyo, the obstinate misfit characters in these fourteen brilliantly crafted pieces are simultaneously redeemed-and one-upped-by the inspirational weirdness of the even stranger world around...
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  • The Thing in the Snow by Adams, Sean
    Sean Adams

    The Thing in the Snow

    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...
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  • Nonsensical Data by Hughes, Gertrude
    Gertrude Hughes

    Nonsensical Data

    Writing prompts train writers to exercise their imagination and fuel their creativity. These shorts are a variety of grotesque, romance, abstract, and horror. Let these micro stories encourage to reconnect with your inner writer to write your own micro storiesAuthor: Gertrude HughesISBN-10: 1387839055ISBN-13: 9781387839056Publisher:...
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  • The Guest Lecture by Riker, Martin
    Martin Riker

    The Guest Lecture

    With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read in current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing a speech on...
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  • Stone Junction by Dodge, Jim
    Jim Dodge

    Stone Junction

    Annalee Pearce is a pregnant 16-year-old who has been placed in a corrective centre run by nuns for refusing to co-operate with authorities. Once in there, she soon rebels, breaks a sister's jaw with a roundhouse right and, when her son Daniel is born,...
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  • Year of the Bear by Chesters, Jay
    Jay Chesters

    Year of the Bear

    In a world where you can be anything, be a bear.Year of the Bear's short stories weave together social commentary with folklore, fairy tale, fantasy, and science fiction to entertain, challenge, and sometimes frighten readers. A lawyer navigates a most unusual Tinder date; a...
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  • Rubble of Rubles by Novakovich, Josip
    Josip Novakovich

    Rubble of Rubles

    From Man Booker International Prize finalist Josip Novakovich comes a satiric novel with teeth--a tale of Russia in the early aughts, perfect for fans of Dostoevsky and Gary Shteyngart.In this picaresque novel set in the early 2000s, David, an investment banker with Eastern European...
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Illustrated by Marta Maszkiewicz) by Carroll, Lewis
    Lewis Carroll

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Illustrated by Marta Maszkiewicz)

    This complete and unabridged edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland includes: 12 unique illustrationsIntroduction explaining how the story came to beBiography of the author containing little known factsAlice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly referred to as "Alice in Wonderland") is considered to be one of...
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  • The Castle and The Trial by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Castle and The Trial

    The Castle: Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties....
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  • The Life and Times of Hieronymus Aloysis Ziege: By Hi Ziege, Edited and Introduced by John Bruni by Bruni, John
    John Bruni

    The Life and Times of Hieronymus Aloysis Ziege: By Hi Ziege, Edited and Introduced by John Bruni

    You think you know the Lewis and Clark expedition, but you don't. Hi Ziege is a man who thought he was wasting his life until he discovered that he could do so much more by joining the Discovery Corps from such a nameless place...
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  • Radio Dark by Hinton, Shane
    Shane Hinton

    Radio Dark

    "Shane Hinton has a hold on a post-apocalyptic setting in a way that would make the author of the Book of Revelation proud." -GEORGE SINGLETON, author of Staff PicksA mysterious condition sweeps the country, leaving its victims in a catatonic state. The power grid...
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  • All Back Full by Lopez, Robert
    Robert Lopez

    All Back Full

    Act One: At a kitchen table, a husband and wife discuss the news, nudists, and lie to each other about the ways they no longer connect. Act Two: At a kitchen table, a man and his friend discuss the weather, the state of public...
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  • Letters From Inside: The Best of Mike Maggio by Maggio, Mike
    Mike Maggio

    Letters From Inside: The Best of Mike Maggio

    A woman sacrifices her children to save herself in an act of desperation. A political prisoner succumbs to his worst fears in a struggle to survive. A politician disappears in the midst of a reelection campaign only to be replaced by a cockroach who...
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  • The Man Called Covid-19: The greatest Magician by Restituyo, Elena
    Elena Restituyo

    The Man Called Covid-19: The greatest Magician

    The Chino called Covid-19 is a man who develops magicians' skills and concentrates his skill in making others' dreams come true. Chino's popularity expanded to other countries through social media and by mouth to mouth of others, to the point that people of different...
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  • Hell of Hosanna by Langton, Kip
    Kip Langton

    Hell of Hosanna

    Imagine the Empire State Building removed from New York City. Imagine that building reconstructed brick-by-brick on your father's private island-the trappings of the past stolen from the public to indulge unfettered hypocrisy. This is James's defeated and ravaged landscape when his father, Fep Anglish,...
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