The entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. In Scarfolk children must not be seen OR heard, and everyone has to be in bed by 8 p.m. because they are perpetually running a slight fever..."Part-comedy, part-horror, part-satire, Discovering Scarfolk is the surreal account of a family trapped in the town. Through public information posters, news reports, books, tourist brochures and other ephermera, we learn about the darker side of childhood, school and society in Scarfolk. A massive cult hit online, Scarfolk re-creates with shiver-inducing accuracy and humour our most nightmarish childhood memories. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE RE-READ.

    

    And now, in the continuing chaos, the world and most of its inhabitants have brandished their swords and, in various fashions, have charged onto the battlefield.If Forming hailed the birth of civilization and mapped out the genesis of life, mass, time, and space, then Forming II is the raging war that ensues in the Universe's years of adolescence.Epic confrontations between gods and mutants, philosophical reflections, hilarious dialogue, and powerful artwork make for an impressive sequel of galactic proportions. Forming II is as funny, sophisticated, and mind-blowingly beautiful as the first part of Jesse Moynihan's unique trilogy.Jesse Moynihan is a long-time native of West Philadelphia's music/art scene. His previous comics include the Xeric Award-winning comic The Backwards Folding Mirror and Follow Me. He is currently part of the creative team behind cult Cartoon Network show Adventure Time, where he creates storyboards and assists with character design.

    They are all archived and can be read at the link attached. She started them for her birthday to make her blog look more like an actual writer (direct quote). Five years and 261 stories later she decided it was time to stop.

    Through these dynamic pieces, Dave McKean reflected the mesmerizing mythology, adult nature, and imaginative storytelling that made the story of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, such a groundbreaking series. This collection also includes insightful and revealing cover commentaries by THE SANDMAN author Neil Gaiman.

    Their marriage crumbling after a series of miscarriages, Viola finds herself in an affair with the FBI agent who has recently appeared at her workplace, while her husband Robert becomes enmeshed in an elaborate conspiracy designed to look like a drug study.James Tadd Adcox's first book The Map of the System of Human Knowledge was published in 2012 by Tiny Hardcore Press. His work has appeared in TriQuarterly, the Literary Review, PANK, Barrelhouse, and Another Chicago Magazine.

    The main protagonist of the novel has lost his identity in favor of, much like a genie, being able to adopt, accentuate, and adorn the identities of others. He cannot remember his past or how this condition came to be; for all he knows, he’s always been faceless and invisible, forced to watch others, reading their eyes, interpreting every facial gesture, while seeking the most interesting flaw. He is one of the people, if only the people would notice him standing there, right next to them, staring back, as if to say, “Hey, I know you…”When you have the face of any other, you see the cracks peeling apart a person’s face, showing bone, bleeding with the hidden anguish of hushed nerves. You feel each and every nerve tensing, and you feel for them—for everyone—when they buckle, unable to bear the burden of each daunting episode. When you spend all your time and energy making sure the people around you are happy, no one will question whether or not you feel the same way. No one is there to question your motivations.“The Face of Any Other bravely explores the tenuous personhood of the young and the urban, whose lives grow more ghostly the more they are particularized. Michael J Seidlinger has graced us with a quietly but unsettlingly original novel of the day-by-day slippages from alienation to asphyxiating despair.”—Gary Lutz, author of Stories in the Worst Way"An absurdly comic cross between Kobo Abe's The Face of Another and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, with self-help and personality tests thrown in, The Face of Any Other is, at once, funny and terrifying, humane and startling. It's an incisive look at the doubts and fears we try to keep hidden but that instead percolate their way to the surface of our skin."—Brian Evenson, author of Windeye“The Face of Any Other picks up where Oblivion-era David Foster Wallace stopped and goes about fragmented and episodic narrative with the same knife Lydia Davis uses. It is chilling, manic, and strangely beautiful. It captures the OCD and ADD of our times with equal attention and paints the genuinely weird and yet post-weird consciousness of a universe I wish was less like ours.”–Porochista Khakpour, author of the novels Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion“Stylistically and structurally innovative, yet with clear, clean prose, Seidlinger exhibits compassion for the inner and outer anxieties, the mundane and not so mundane aspects of our human existence. Instead of using the cold detachment too often employed by young writers, in The Face of Any Other, readers are sure to discover a refreshingly, emotionally-resonant work.”–Paula Bomer, author of Inside Madeleine“The idea of a man with no face latching onto random people and swimming in their insecurities is both horrifying and a little hilarious. But the real horror, and humor, in The Face of Any Other is found in the consumer concerns, office anxieties, and daily banalities that Seidlinger exposes, skewers, and transforms into art. Seidlinger has a face—I’ve seen it!—but his novel is a mirror revealing us to ourselves.”–Lincoln Michel, author of Upright Beasts“Michael J Seidlinger is a technician of collapse. Read this book, then ask why you’ve read it. Then ask again why Seidlinger wrote it. The Face of Any Other is the cry on the page of Edvard Munch’s screaming man, a dirge not for the end of the answer but of the question itself.”—D. Foy, author of Made to Break“Told in Brautigan-length chapters through both sorrowful and eerie tones, Seidlinger’s The Face of Any Other conjures the one-hundred-and-four-year-old voice of Rilke’s Malte Laurids Brigge, who similarly grappled with identity by asserting, ‘There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.’ Like a merry-go-round of postmodern disaster scenarios, a carnival of performance upon performance, the narrator pushes itself beyond its own breaking point. By the end, the tables turn on the reader as the narrator seems to become a mirror looking into a mirror: a haunting, seething, and beautiful mise en abyme.” —Christopher Higgs, author of The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney“The Face of Any Other crawls into the cracks of our dreary days and finds the strange light at the center of it all. Boredom and blankness are transfigured into something new and exciting. This is, by far, Michael J. Seidlinger’s best book yet—warm and human even as it wanders through inhospitable landscapes. Assured, mature and wonderfully creepy.”—David Connerley Nahm, author of Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky

    What a pleasure to open a book and find such exuberant and committed artistry. A stunning debut."—Janet Fitch"There is a way some writers say hello on the first page that gets me excited to be in their conversation. Nochita has it with teeth!! I love this book and the weird strong eye it has on the world, melting clothes off bodies with a crème brulée torch. Nochita is quite the dance to read through, kind of like shaking a bad morning off and realizing you really love this world. Makes me smile, like Dia Felix writes, 'I think I can latch on to this machine now.”' BUY THIS BOOK, don’t just stand there reading my fucking blurb!!"—CAConrad, author of The Book Of FrankDaughter to a divorced new age guru, Nochita wanders through the cracks of California's counter-culture, half feral child, half absurdist prophet. When tragedy strikes she is sent to live with her father, a working-class cowboy with a fragile grasp on sobriety and a dangerously mean fiancée. Stuck with adults chillingly unable to care for her, Nochita takes to the streets, a runaway with nothing to run from, driven forward by desperation, hope, and an irrepressible wonder.Nochita is a poetic novel dazzling in its detail, stylistically daring, by turns hallucinatory, darkly funny, and brutally real. At its heart is the singular voice of Nochita, tender and fierce, alone and alive and utterly unforgettable.Dia Felix is a writer and filmmakerand an award-winning digital media producer for museums (SF Exploratorium, Museum of Arts and Design). She currently teaches and mentors teens in experimental documentary filmmaking. She is the founder and editor of Personality Press. Born and raised in California, she currently lives in New York. Nochita is her first book.

    John feeds the machine nightly. The devil in the fridge watches. Nobody wants to be a man-in-a-can anymore. Take in a show at Jeremy's. Get your head checked at Fred's. Ride the rails until the tracks are set ablaze by firefighters who fight fires with fire. Tuesday's coming. Did you remember to bring your coat?From Brian Auspice comes a down-the-rabbit-hole adventure into the depths of the human condition

    "Like absinthe mixed with Red Bull, they will ruin your waking hours the way you didn't know you wanted them ruined." --Meg Pokrass"Nouveau's Midnight Sun carries the revolutionizing force of surrealism into the twenty-first century. This much-needed anthology shows that surrealism, in renewing itself, has not mutated beyond recognition, but only has brought forth the farther, deeper implications of the original Manifestoes. As eccentric to established culture as Breton would have wished, these poems, in rewriting & rerouting surrealism, still know to bring the outside in." --Andrew Joron"Born out of deranged fever, as the author John Thomas Allen puts it, Nouveau's Midnight Sun emanates from his insatiable quest for the angels and demons (theories and principles) of surrealism, as a phantom that haunts him even when he was bedridden and convalescing from a harrowing Lyme disease. Allen has methodically gathered leading post-postmodern surrealist poets and artists to reecho the vision of the Surrealist movement founder André Breton. Albeit stylish and highly refined from its avant-garde predecessor, the surrealist poets and artists explore motley themes that define what surrealism is in the 21st century, from a movement of chance, dream, and anarchy to an aesthetic of oddity, deviancy, science fiction, magic realism, ambivalence, absurdity, and decay. The author's introductory essay alone is, in itself, an inimitable literary piece akin to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra." --Danny Castillones Sillada

    These stories contain the following: a dragon; angels; Indian culture; one Christmas story for children; no Indian culture whatsoever; men; poor people; voluntarily homeless youths; women; drugs; sex; Indian dads in cold foreign countries; vomit; boys; girl's hostels; girls; future tense; the Tropicool Icy-Land Urban Indian Slum; ash, and the people who eat ash; authentic village life written from a privileged English-speaking perspective; homosexuals; white people; references to Rajinikanth; non-italicized Tamil words; whores; brain aneurysms; Western dance in South Indian women's colleges; Pazhani; floods; shapeshifters; men named Kathir; minty-fresh non-cola cola; and wannabe Naxalites.

    A young woman’s job at a make-up counter ends in disaster. Car accidents and cornfields cause siblings to disappear while, up above, airplane banners advertise hair care products. Welcome to Beside Myself, Ashley Farmer's debut collection of short stories. These brief, lucid dreams illuminate the moment the familiar becomes strange and that split second before everything changes forever.

    The sky is falling, the seas are burning and your neighbour is a zombie. It's brutal out there. It's every man for himself and these heels are going to have to go; you simply can't run in them! Across two volumes, The Girl at the End of the World offers forty-one striking visions of the apocalypse and the women and girls dealing with it. From gods to zombies, from epic to deeply personal, from the moment of impact to a future where life is long forgotten; bestselling authors and exciting new writers deliver tales you'll still remember when holed up in a fallout shelter with one remaining bullet and a best friend with a suspicious bite mark on their neck.1,1 Antichristine James Bennett1,1 Change of Address Rob Harkess1,1 Coming Back Tracy Fahey1,1 Skin James Oswald1,1 The Borrowed Man James S Dorr1,1 The End of the Garden Catherine Mann1,1 The Ending Plague Andrew Reid1,1 The Wife of Watsorous Nathan Lunt1,2 A Sailor Girl Goes Ashore Margret Helgadottir1,2 Blueprint for Redwings Ruth E J Booth1,2 Demon Runner Dash Cooray1,2 Little Daughter Dayna Ingram1,2 Rolling in the Deep Cat Connor1,2 Sophie and the Gate to Hell Carol Borden1,2 The Glaciers Stone Alexander Danner1,2 The Last Rushani Jonathan Ward1,3 In the Absence John Perkins1,3 Only So Far Adam Rodenberger1,3 Saint Salima Alex Helm1,3 Somebody to Play with Geraldine Clark Hellery1,3 The Beast Within Christian D’Amico1,3 Zompoc in Nashville K.A.Laity1,3 All things Fall Chloe Yates