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  • The Copywriter by Poppick, Daniel
    Daniel Poppick

    The Copywriter

    A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work. It's the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can't dispel a creeping sense...
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  • City Attorney's Office: Book Two: The Land of Lollipops and Suckers by Stockwell, Christopher J.
    Christopher J. Stockwell

    City Attorney's Office: Book Two: The Land of Lollipops and Suckers

    In the second installment of his City Attorney's Office series Christopher J. Stockwell takes you through another satirical jaunt through the criminal justice of Seattle.Through antihero Ben, you will get a look behind the curtain of a busy prosecutor's office the way only a...
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  • Acts of God by Gill, Kanan
    Kanan Gill

    Acts of God

    The twenty-first-century heir to Kurt Vonnegut, Kanan Gill's debut, Acts of God, is a madcap futuristic romp that dares to question the meaning of existence--with equal parts reverence and hilarity.Private detective P. Manjunath thinks like fire and works like dust as he sets out...
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  • The Call to Celeste (Illustrated Edition) by Mayer, Joshua
    Joshua Mayer

    The Call to Celeste (Illustrated Edition)

    Tucked away on forlorn shores is the harbor town of Celeste, fogged by proxy, plagued by creatures of the abysmal sea. Fallen prey to the Leviathan, a terrible tale sank the town into infamy, and above all mystery. Our vessel, Eliza Marie, heeds the...
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis
    Lewis Carroll

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Original, experimental, and charmingly nonsensical, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland follows seven-year-old Alice down a rabbit hole and into the topsy-turvy dream world of Wonderland. In this fantastical place, food can shrink you to the size of a mouse, or turn you into...
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  • The Castle by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Castle

    Trapped in a bureaucratic quagmire, K., a land surveyor, struggles to gain access to the mysterious, impenetrable Castle, a symbol of unassailable authority. His attempts are met with inexplicable delays, administrative hurdles, and a pervasive sense of alienation. Franz Kafka infuses his narrative with...
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  • BarnYard Heroes: The Havarti Travel Bureau Conspiracy or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cow Zombie Apocalypse by McAdams, Samuel A.
    Samuel A. McAdams

    BarnYard Heroes: The Havarti Travel Bureau Conspiracy or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cow Zombie Apocalypse

    Author: Samuel A. McAdamsISBN-10: 1963968050ISBN-13: 9781963968057Publisher: 21st Century AbsurdistLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2025Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.91d
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  • The Franchiser by Elkin, Stanley
    Stanley Elkin

    The Franchiser

    A tragicomic journey across America as one man attempts to create a fast food empire, and a legacy to leave behind.From the prolific and peerless Stanley Elkin, The Franchiser follows Ben Flesh--one of the men "who made America look like America, who made America...
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  • The Best of Lewis Carroll: Three Titles by Carroll, Lewis
    Lewis Carroll

    The Best of Lewis Carroll: Three Titles

    This edition of the Alice books by Lewis Carroll comprises Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There along with Sir John Tenniel's whole original black-and-white illustrations. Carroll's dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass...
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  • Weepers by Mendelsund, Peter
    Peter Mendelsund

    Weepers

    Ed is a weeper. A professional weeper. He's a card-carrying member of an eccentric union hired to cry at funerals, wakes, services, and burials. It's an odd job, but his services are sorely needed these days, as the town, the region, the country as...
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  • Smash & Grab by Jarman, Mark Anthony
    Mark Anthony Jarman

    Smash & Grab

    "A Canadian master of the form."--Gregory Cowles, New York TimesTwo men who belong to are part of a commune discover two dead bodies while out sailing. A woman hits a boy with her car and contemplates turning herself in. A former military policeman, a...
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  • Prometheus for Breakfast: A Darkly Absurd Tale of Death, the Afterlife, and the End of Everything by Tilde, Jack
    Jack Tilde

    Prometheus for Breakfast: A Darkly Absurd Tale of Death, the Afterlife, and the End of Everything

    In the beginning, GOD created the Earth-a profound statement unless you know that by "GOD," I mean the General Observable Dimension corporation, and by "Earth," I refer to their immensely profitable simulation known as human existence.Among GOD's lesser-known creations is Richard, a nobody to...
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  • Sin and Zen by Stribling, S. W.
    S. W. Stribling

    Sin and Zen

    Will Strief has just fallen from the sky... Literally. He is no angel. He is a parachutist for the infamous French Foreign Legion, or he was until one bad jump leaves him shattered: physically, mentally, and spiritually. After a life in the military, jumping...
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  • Lunacy: A Maximalist Nightmare by Garguilo, Jorin
    Jorin Garguilo

    Lunacy: A Maximalist Nightmare

    A father tries his best to unburden his daughter. A doctor risks it all to have a major scientific breakthrough. Fast food workers excel at the food prep routine. A pack of werewolves unleashes a destructive force so terrible it puts all of humanity...
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  • Dancing With Delirium: The Woodhill Park Experience by Bennett, Jack H.
    Jack H. Bennett

    Dancing With Delirium: The Woodhill Park Experience

    Dancing with Delirium is the perfect companion piece for an afternoon of yearning, staring wistfully out over the river in forlorn rigidity. Or a reminder of a happier time immersed in profundity at your last music festival or concert. Or something fun to read...
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  • Reel to Real by Maxim, Jim
    Jim Maxim

    Reel to Real

    A tragic accident decimates the family of Leon Schmutz, leaving him captured in the throes of Retrograde Amnesia, and deprived of any recollection of his life prior to the incident. With no one to remind him about his past, Leon struggles to find himself...
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  • Bring The Jubilee by Moore, Ward
    Ward Moore

    Bring The Jubilee

    Step into a world where history takes a thrilling turn in Ward Moore's "Bring the Jubilee," a masterpiece that has captivated imaginations for generations. Once lost to time, this extraordinary novel is now reborn, lovingly restored and republished by Alpha Editions for today's and...
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  • The Universe by Matzdorff, Mike
    Mike Matzdorff

    The Universe

    Author: Mike MatzdorffISBN-10: 1967309019ISBN-13: 9781967309016Publisher: Green Crow PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.48d
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  • Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories by Bernhard, Thomas
    Thomas Bernhard

    Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories

    These newly translated stories chart the making of a literary provocateur, one experiment and ethical dilemma at a time. Before Thomas Bernhard became one of the most provocative voices in modern literature, he was a young writer testing the limits of form and subject....
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  • The Endless Week by Vazquez, Laura
    Laura Vazquez

    The Endless Week

    From the 2023 winner of the Prix Goncourt for poetry comes a debut novel unlike any other, a lyrical anti-epic about the beauty, violence, trauma, and absurdity of the internet age. Like Beckett's novels or Kafka's stranger tales, The Endless Week is a work...
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  • Love in the Time of Fridges by Scott, Tim
    Tim Scott

    Love in the Time of Fridges

    Tim Scott's Outrageous Fortune marked the debut of one of the most wildly inventive writers to hit the sci-fi scene in years. Now he returns with a hilarious yet poignant novel of love, loss, and itinerant appliances."New Seattle Health and Safety. Do not die...
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  • How to Make Sure You Never Get Reincarnated on Planet Earth Ever Again by Holtz, Ronel
    Ronel Holtz

    How to Make Sure You Never Get Reincarnated on Planet Earth Ever Again

    Author: Ronel HoltzISBN-13: 9798230579267Publisher: Ronel HoltzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2025Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d
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  • Nine Stray Shots by Soto, Jm
    Jm Soto

    Nine Stray Shots

    In these nine short stories, absurdity undermines the foundations of reality until there is no turning back: A boy gets trapped between the walls of a building. / Five friends establish a new country inside their apartment and set out to defend it with...
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  • The Game Is Afoot: A Shadow Holmes and Watson Mystery by Raymond, David
    David Raymond

    The Game Is Afoot: A Shadow Holmes and Watson Mystery

    Forbidden from pursuing her calling, Shadow Holmes, the great-granddaughter of Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older-and smarter-brother, works for her father selling real estate in Miami. To compound matters, Shadow has no idea her father is the director of The Bee, a clandestine British spy agency,...
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  • Reel to Real by Maxim, Jim
    Jim Maxim

    Reel to Real

    A tragic accident decimates the family of Leon Schmutz, leaving him captured in the throes of Retrograde Amnesia, and deprived of any recollection of his life prior to the incident. With no one to remind him about his past, Leon struggles to find himself...
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  • The Apocalypse Pipe by August, Aaron Echoes
    Aaron Echoes August

    The Apocalypse Pipe

    The Apocalypse Pipe is a unique and varied collection of poems and stories by author Aaron Echoes August. Much of the work in this collection revolves around the struggles of complex individuals existing within the often-suffocating parameters of the human condition. Characters in these...
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  • The Trial by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Trial

    "Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' From this gripping first sentence, The Trial, by Franz Kafka, is a darkly humorous, somewhat terrifying narrative of an ordeal faced by Josephy K.,...
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  • An Interview with Michael Martone by Baker, Matt
    Matt Baker

    An Interview with Michael Martone

    Author: Matt BakerISBN-10: 1949344452ISBN-13: 9781949344455Publisher: Bull City PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 160Format: Paperback
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  • The Worm by Bailey, Shawn
    Shawn Bailey

    The Worm

    The Worm is a carnival of body horror and existential satire that will make you laugh, squirm, and question your own reality.When Tad Gruber discovers a parasite lurking in the most intimate depths of his body, his life unravels into a tale of grotesque...
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  • Acts of God by Gill, Kanan
    Kanan Gill

    Acts of God

    The twenty-first-century heir to Kurt Vonnegut, Kanan Gill's debut, Acts of God, is a madcap futuristic romp that dares to question the meaning of existence--with equal parts reverence and hilarity.Private detective P. Manjunath thinks like fire and works like dust as he sets out...
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  • Tanuja Ramachandran: Hunter-Seeker by Sivasubramanian, Kumar
    Kumar Sivasubramanian

    Tanuja Ramachandran: Hunter-Seeker

    Forged in tragedy, fueled by vengeance, crippled by narcolepsy When Tanuja Ramachandran's husband and children were murdered, she was transformed into an instrument of retribution against the criminal underworld. Now, years later, she is a devastating weapon, honed and armed to the teeth, and...
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  • The Amazing Twin Chicken Freedom Fighters by Sole, Zephaniah
    Zephaniah Sole

    The Amazing Twin Chicken Freedom Fighters

    The war between the agents of the Worldview Freedom Fighters and the minions of the mysterious Hip Gnosis spills into our reality when Jake and Joy, two lost and broken souls, wake up one day in chicken suits they can't remove and learn they...
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  • Grasping, Letting Go by Carlin, Jack
    Jack Carlin

    Grasping, Letting Go

    Richard Hazzard is in free fall.He is on the verge of something. If he could only figure out what... Drifting through Los Angeles on the night he was supposed to be married, Richard is searching for the truth and running from it. He remains...
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  • We Live Here Now by Rose, C. D.
    C. D. Rose

    We Live Here Now

    DeLillo meets Kafka in a wickedly smart novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, and beauty and commerce . . . When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people...
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  • Evans Of The Earth-Guard by Hamilton, Edmond
    Edmond Hamilton

    Evans Of The Earth-Guard

    Author: Edmond HamiltonISBN-10: 9369059989ISBN-13: 9789369059980Publisher: Alpha EditionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2025Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.06d
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  • The Trial by Kafka, Franz
    Franz Kafka

    The Trial

    The Trial (German: Der Process, later Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by...
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  • Polimony by Lawrence, A. B.
    A. B. Lawrence

    Polimony

    Simon is a painter that hasn't painted in a while. Unable to escape the shadow of his vice, he seeks refuge in the releasing warmth of alcohol and the company of his muse, Polimony. Things change as he builds the courage to court his...
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  • The Red Light Starts Blinking by Kane, Jonathon
    Jonathon Kane

    The Red Light Starts Blinking

    Jonathon Kane's debut collection of short experimental fiction, equally hard-faced and tender, follows characters searching for a way forward or back or around-some direction, any direction.Against the backdrop of Australia's simultaneously lush and desolate Blue Mountains, a series of men are set adrift. Displaced...
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  • The Magic Kingdom by Elkin, Stanley
    Stanley Elkin

    The Magic Kingdom

    Brimming with Elkin's comic brilliance and singular wordplay, The Magic Kingdom tells the story of Eddy Bale, who, determined to learn from the ghastly experience of his son's long, drawn-out death, decides to give seven terminally ill children a dream vacation before they die.Abandoned...
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  • Conversational Therapy by Voro, Nick
    Nick Voro

    Conversational Therapy

    Conversational Therapy is a debut collection of challenging and unusual short stories and one-act plays.In A KEEPSAKE MEMORY, a wrongfully imprisoned girl tries to escape the confines of an abandoned mental asylum and the treacherous hands of a psychotic doctor placed in charge of...
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  • Apocalypsing by Anderson, Jason
    Jason Anderson

    Apocalypsing

    Love is a many-splintered thing. You never know which prick might be your last.There is life after death. The devil is all in the details.David Downey is deader than a doornail. He left this world in the same empty place he found it. Heart...
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  • The Anti-Vax ABCs by McKay, Jeremy
    Jeremy McKay

    The Anti-Vax ABCs

    Smallpox, measles, mumps, tetanus...the old enemies of mankind. Scientists have been hard at work for centuries vanquishing these foes. Those of us in the developed world live safe from our oldest enemies, shielded by childhood immunizations. Well, not all of us. There are a...
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  • Death On Horseback by Bailey, David W.
    David W. Bailey

    Death On Horseback

    Captain Josiah Edward Stewart, 5th Battalion, 1st Cavalry, assigned Fort Archer, Arizona territory has been accused of negligence & cowardess in the face of the enemy.Found not guilty, Colonel Bream gave Captain Stewart and Captain Allen Moody a two week furlough.During an Apache attack...
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  • A Machine for Hugs by Gower, Galen
    Galen Gower

    A Machine for Hugs

    Author: Galen GowerISBN-13: 9798992363128Publisher: Sloth & Envy PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2025Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.32d
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  • Clearing by Mars, Jon
    Jon Mars

    Clearing

    In a moment of absolute despair, six-year-old May Haskins is befriended by a demon, innocently posing as her imaginary friend, Minnie. But behind her innocent facade lies a dark secret-Minnie whispers sinister promises into May's ear, coaxing her into committing unspeakable acts. "Clearing" is...
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  • Dirty Boots by Purfield, Mike
    Mike Purfield

    Dirty Boots

    Teen-ager Page Shelly is dying. But is there anything left to live for in her shallow New Jersey suburb? So off to Florida she goes to spend the rest of her day. Until she hits Sam Young on the highway. A quiet boy on...
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  • The University of Pennsylvania by Beilin, Caren
    Caren Beilin

    The University of Pennsylvania

    Olivia Knox has womb duplicatum, a rare affliction of continuous menstruation. Blood--it is not just blood!--tumbles unstoppably during her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania. This problem of excess--blood full of marbles and beans, something thick enough to be black, sometimes sick enough...
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  • Moving Parts by Yoon, Prabda
    Prabda Yoon

    Moving Parts

    Winner, English PEN Translates Award Selected by Asymptote for September World Book Club Surreal and puncturing short stories from the Thai master of the form. In a pink-walled motel, a teenage prostitute brings a grown man to tears. A love-struck young boy holds the...
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  • The Competition of Unfinished Stories by Ozmen, Sener
    Sener Ozmen

    The Competition of Unfinished Stories

    Novelist, poet, and internationally acclaimed visual artist Sener Ozmen is one of today's most exciting contemporary voices in Kurdish literature. The darkly comic, profoundly moving The Competition of Unfinished Stories marks his English-language debut, one that is sure not to go unnoticed. Set in...
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  • Liminal: Astro Mining Enterprises. by Q. R. Kode
    Q. R. Kode

    Liminal: Astro Mining Enterprises.

    Broken apart by a calculated attack, a group of friends must reconnect across the stars, and learn the real reason behind their bond. Will they accept the new truth between them, or will they collapse under the pressure?Author: Q. R. KodeISBN-13: 9798230626800Publisher: Q.R.KodeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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