Fiction - Absurdist

If the part of you that caused self-doubt had a face, would you recognize it? If your tendency to self-destruct had a name, would you know it? Told with humor, empathy and a driving narrative, Mountain Lion Blues is a surreal, dark comedy about...

A gay man and a black woman meet in the woods outside Leadville, Colorado. Well, they don't really meet. They run into each other when the gay man (Quincy) is running from the cult of Tree Tree McForest Face and the black woman (Maya)...

Wickedly dark with a mystical edge, this story of an Italian love affair gone bad captures the irresistible pull of toxic relationships--from the acclaimed author of Carnality. A woman arrives in Florence, overwhelmed by the strange, warm city so different from her home. Amidst...

A daring, hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman (Stranger Things, Fleabag).Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny world of The Terrifying Realm of the Possible, where your worst fears of who you are or might become are...

A whirlwind tour of San Francisco's fabled queer bohemia in the waning days of the 20th century, as the city's budget bon vivants work to save their eccentric lifestyles in the face of tech gentrification by LAMBDA award finalist Alvin Orloff.Harris, San Francisco's most...

Mahmoud Shukair's first major publication in English translation enthralls, surprises and shocks as one of the world's most original of storytellers excels in exposing the surreal moments in the ordinary and the mundane, the limits of human frustration and patience, and the intricacies of...

Roy Scranton, controversial and critically-acclaimed, brings us a formally daring road trip into the heart of present-day America. When Suzie is offered the chance to work with a maverick cinematographer on his road-trip movie about Donald Trump's America, she's pretty sure it's a bad...

The debut issue of Ghoulish Tales features stories by Robert Nazar Arjoyan, Barbara Castro-Rojas, Clay McLeod Chapman, Chloe Harper Gold, Rae Knowles, Angela Liu, Nina Maar, and Betty Rocksteady. Also includes articles by Nicholas A. Battaglia and Lor Gislason.Author: Max BoothISBN-10: 1943720916ISBN-13: 9781943720910Publisher: Ghoulish...

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a prolific German-speaking Bohemian author based in Prague, now widely regarded as one of the principal literary figures of the 20th century. His stories, infused with acute realism and the absurdly fantastic, often feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre, surrealistic predicaments...

To whom do we owe our intended good nature? Where do we scrape the courage to engage others in cynical pursuits? Arnold Esche, the sole possessor of an acclaimed media giant guides his readers and woefully employed into a world that all believe to...

Award-winning stories cast an absurd, fantastical view of the quotidian world, with characters that twist the very fabric of reality.Author: Zach PowersISBN-10: 1942683375ISBN-13: 9781942683377Publisher: BOA EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2017Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 03/20/2017Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2017 pg. 35

Our English Bull Terrier hero and his master Bud continue their hilarious antics in this latest installment of Spike the Wonder Dog's adventures. This laugh-out-loud novel, with its interwoven and inventive plotlines, could be called Game of Bones. In the midst of being ensnared...

Crater Omen, a madman jilted by cosmic betrayal, sets loose a chain reaction at the center of the galaxy that threatens existence itself, only to find something lurking there that he hadn't bargained for. Meanwhile, his twin brother Oort desperately tries to hold on...

An absurdly dark tragi-comedy of language and literature. Czeslaw Przęśnicki is an Eastern-European immigrant writer who survived the long toilet paper lines of communist Poland, the loss of his lover Ernest Hemingway following a passionate affair, and the beatings of the Antarctic literary community...

The end of the road for Moldenke?The Death of a Character is cult author David Ohle's mordant meditation on the trials of the flesh, of bureaucracy, and tenderness. In the company of and old flame, and the neutrodynes Wheaton and Darleen, Moldenke retires to...

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Loss. Grief. Centipedes. Silence. The word "no." The word "yes." A high school poetry contest that may or may not be linked to the end of the world. The characters in this collection are under attack. A grief-baffled son hopes to save an innocent...

For over 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and "one...

The voice of disgraced love guru Brooks Nixon seems to haunt Hope Townsend, showing up at inopportune moments to deliver unwelcome commentary on her hapless romances. Brooks―who once doled out cliched dating advice to millions―fell out of favor with his fanbase when a life-altering...

In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy. The Skin of Dreams is a novel of waking dreams. Even...

Belan is the CEO and he needs this PowerPoint deck asap. The narrator, however, just wants to fly home - and he might not deliver what Belan is expecting. Set mostly during a delay at SFO, The Belan Deck captures one traveler's reflections on...

As the French author Marcel Proust once remarked, the mind evokes endlessly changing thought patterns, much like a kaleidoscope. Reading Derrick R. Lafayette's Kaleidoscope: Dark Tales, a genuinely extraordinary collection of five short stories and a novella, is like gazing upon the world again...

Dink Flapple, former boy-wonder and man-child of late, embarks on a metaphysical journey that defies all reason, unwittingly proving witlessness wise in matters space-time, interplanetary travel, and, of course, unicycling. Madcap misadventures ensue, involving friendships old and new, seedy television programming, indiscriminate ingestion, superfluous...

A 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist "A unique alien invasion story that focuses on the human and the myriad ways we see and don't see our own world. Mesmerizing." --Jeff VanderMeer A blend of searing social commentary and speculative fiction, Chana Porter's fresh, pointed...

A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school.Steven Wright is one of the most significant and influential stand-up comedians in history. Rolling Stone ranked him...

"A hilarious bizarroid science fiction horror thriller, with great vivid characters, crackling first-rate dialogue, nonstop momentum and unguessable plot twists galore. Rarely does a book make me laugh out loud this often, while keeping me engaged in the delirious drama unfolding."-John Skipp, Wonderland Award...

In this biting satire, Matthew Binder takes surreal aim at the poses and pretensions of high art and fashion. With ruthless wit, Binder chronicles the struggles of Paul, an eccentric artist, and his companion dog, a disabled, quiche-obsessed terrier-mix named Blanche. Together they negotiate...

A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school. Steven Wright is one of the most significant and influential stand-up comedians in history. Rolling Stone ranked...

In this biting satire, Matthew Binder takes surreal aim at the poses and pretensions of high art and fashion. With ruthless wit, Binder chronicles the struggles of Paul, an eccentric artist, and his companion dog, a disabled, quiche-obsessed terrier-mix named Blanche. Together they negotiate...

He hates clich駸. It's apparent in every dust-filled corner of his life.While he's pouring one too many drinks, hovering in the airless loop of his apartment to savor every bit of his misery, and pinching his bruised heart whenever memories flood forward, he's chronically...

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was...

Sometimes life throws you curveballs. Jen Guidry thrives in the big city, but her husband Mike finds the bright lights blinding. He moves their family back to the tiny town in Louisiana where he grew up, a place that doesn't even have a coffee...

"A subtly existential collection in which each story defracts, complicates, compliments, and magnifies the others. Intense and satisfying, and very painfully human" -Brian Evenson, author of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell and Song for the Unraveling of the World"Short-titled and tightly tense, each...

This follows on from Stoned In The Afterlife: A Possible Journey, Part One.Joe continues to question the reality and all that he's experiencing. He maintains that the only way to be sure is to find his wife, and as long as he can't find...

Combining burlesque absurdism and lofty references to classical literature with a tongue-in-cheek plot about an industrializing rural proletariat, Beyond Tula--subtitled "a Soviet pastoral"-actually appeared in the official Soviet press in 1931. This novel offers an uproarious romp through the earnestly boring and unintentionally campy...

New York Times reporter Harold Carlyle has been on a rocket ride of success. Since publishing an explosive book on the Trump administration's collusion with Russia, he has become a fixture of primetime cable news. But he soon finds that fame has its challenges....

Alexander Haralson, the deranged star of Leonard Borman's eccentric debut novel Our Jewish Robot Future, returns--only slightly more sane-in his new effort, Fix the Roads, as a retired accountant who wants to start a new career as a stand-up comedian. His ambition is to...

The annual magazine of Gateway Literary Press is here, packed full of magically weird fiction and poetry!Author: Joe BaumannISBN-10: 1365360059ISBN-13: 9781365360053Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2023Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d

A harrowing adventure of love, horror, comedy, and schmaltzy melodrama... featuring a cast of lovable rabbits and an entourage of crazy characters.Deep in the woods, a warren is preyed upon by a beast known as Jack. As the rabbits struggle to combat their newest...

Phil Bowers was a comedian and jazz trombone player par excellence! He also compiled jokes to use in any and all situations over his 97 years of life as a husband to wife Carolyn, a singer, and the mother of their eight children. (And...

In a future where everyone in the world has been drafted into the military, there is only one enemy left to fight . . . ourselves. Five exhausted soldiers are sitting in the middle of a frozen Arctic wasteland, waiting for something to happen....

A fantastical coming-of-age meets the existential detective novel.A young boy grapples with the fact his best friend has vanished from existence while a homeless man stalks and constructs a delusional dime-store fiction around the child.Yan, a teenager living in Bangkok, wakes to a changed...

In April 2020, at the height of the pandemic in New York City, Andrew, the assistant director of a funeral home one mile from Elmhurst Hospital, the "epicenter of the epicenter," meets a legendary Coney Island witch doctor (Lelya Dorche), who makes him an...

A real journal, a surreal book. Hidden for years - until now.This mind-bending, rule-breaking story is a real diary.The walker's incredible journey is filled with fears and failures, hopes and joys, colour and darkness. A young man faces everything from unwanted thoughts, to unrequited...

Welcome to Munks...home to the lost, the lonely, and those in perpetual limbo. A famous nightclub now in decline. New owners with wayward ideas are determined to redeem this place of moral bankruptcy. Amongst the rot, the depravity, the crime, and the hedonism -...

Enter a speculative universe where logic has been put on life-support, traditions have become useless appendages, and every character in these overtly farcical tales lives a hopelessly bewildered existence, carried along by a laughably dysfunctioning self-awareness antithetical to his or her well-being. If this...

Dragons, jetpacks, robots and more! Read as Jay, Parker, Bell and many more students of Booker Academy, build the most creative and outstanding contraptions possible! They only threats are the evil principal and vie principal, who want to keep the kids down and docile,...

Tourist season is over, and the rain won't stop falling. It's time for the vacationing Parisians, Herman and his family included, to abandon their rural getaways in the countryside and return to normal life. But where has Herman's family gone? Concerned, he sets out...

Bust the Kingdom's scariest crime boss? There's got to be an easier way for a Fool to win love!A year after the events of Fool's Proof, Malfred Murd is no longer a Fool, royal or otherwise. He's a newly minted nobleman- who can't help...

When math meets aftermath, all Hell will break loose.A near-death experience gives Dalton McGovern an epiphany-through a combination of computer programming and neurotechnology, he will create a virtual afterlife. With support from his unflappable but flighty twin sister and his stoic and secretive ex-boyfriend,...