by Grefe, Jamie
Notes from the Guts of a Hippo by Grant Wamack
A rugged journalist travels to Brazil in search of a missing hippo researcher and the notes left behind lead to something earth shatteringly revelatory.
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ADHD Vampire by Matthew Vaughn
He came, he conquered, he was distracted a lot
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How to Succesfully Kidnap Strangers by Max Booth III
Do not respond to bad reviews. If you must respond to bad reviews, please do not kidnap the reviewer.
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Surreal Worlds edited by Sean Leonard
An anthology of surrealistic compositions created by some of the finest names in genre fiction. A showcase of international talent undaunted by the conventions of language and common narrative structures. Here is timelessness. Here is Surreal Worlds
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The Bohemian Guide to Monogamy by Andrew Armacost
Here, a strange labyrinth of interlinked short fiction assembles itself into a darkly moving novella that deftly explores the bottomless pain and pleasure of love and commitment, the hinterland between youth and adulthood.
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Great American Slasher by David C. Hayes
Baseball, apple pie . . . and murder.
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Boiled Americans by Michael Allen Rose
Boiled Americans is a puzzle box in book form, inspired by the violence of living in urban America and exploding the tendency to forget or ignore.
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Industrial Carpet Drag by Bruce Taylor
Chemicals make you do great things!
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Terence, Mephisto & Viscera Eyes by Chris Kelso
9 new science fiction stories from Chris Kelso
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The Fairy Princess of Trains by Christopher Boyle
Danny’s mediocre life turns upside-down when his couch starts whispering to him. Then he’s charged with a supernatural mission: Rescue the Fairy Princess of Trains.
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Fecal Terror by David Bernstein
A killer turd is on the loose!
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Ascent by Matthew Bialer
Is the 8 foot tall creature haunting a small town in Iowa in the fall of the year 1903 the product of a hoax and collective imagination or was it one of the first documented paranormal event in America? This epic poem grapples with these questions.
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Glue by Scott Lange
Sticky bowels and sticky situations.
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Gravity Comics Massacre by Vincenzo Bilof
An absolutely shitty novella involving comic books, aliens, a serial killer, teenagers in an abandoned town, horror-trope dream sequences, and an ending you’re going to hate.
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Elusive Plato by Rhys Hughes
The last in a long decadent line of piratical Spanish eccentrics, Bartleby Cadiz grows up in isolation to be as mad, bad and metaphysical as his ancestors. But he feels there is something different about him. What can it be?
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The Horror Show by Vincenzo Bilof
A poetry novel—a narcoleptic, amnesiac Nobel Prize-winning poet becomes the subject of an experiment to cure madness.
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A Lightbulb’s Lament by Grant Wamack
A gentleman with a lightbulb for head wakes up in a world full of darkness, hooks up with a beautiful ex-prostitute, and an old man who can heal people; he travels down south to find the mysterious Creator.
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The After-Life Story of Pork Knuckles Malone by MP Johnson
What’s a farm boy to do when his pet pig becomes an evil, decaying hunk of ham with slime-spewing psychic powers?
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Skinners by Adam Millard
Los Angeles, the City of Angels. At least, that’s what the brochure says. What it fails to mention is the earthquakes. Oh, and the flesh-eating creatures lying dormant beneath the concrete, waiting for the chance to surface once again. Their wait is over . . .
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Cherub by David C. Hayes
Cherub wasn't like the other boys—too slow, too rough—but he didn't deserve what that hospital did to him, and now he will make them pay.
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All Art is Junk by R. A. Harris
Lana Rivers, a girl with paintbrush hair, is missing and it's up to Lancelot, her cyborg knight, and his bionic conjoined twin, Cilia, to find her before her evil father, a disrespected artist turned mad-scientist, performs a terrible experiment on her.
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Retch by David Bernstein
What would you do if you were cursed to puke right before you reached orgasm? You'd do anything, right? (You know you would.) Find out what one wealthy, good-looking, playboy will do to try to end his abhorrent curse.
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Berzerkoids by MP Johnson
The first short story collection from Wonderland Book Award-winning author MP Johnson
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Omega Grey by Seb Doubinsky
When professor Todd Bailer embarked on a psychedelics quest to discover if the land of the Dead really existed, he had no idea he would threaten the cosmic balance of the universe by triggering a real-estate conquest of the new Frontier.
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The Boy Who Loved Death by Hal Duncan
From blackest humour to bleakest horror, with twisted relish, Hal Duncan's eighteen tales dig into death—and the life that goes with it.
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Moosejaw Frontier by Chris Kelso
An unapologetic disaster of metafiction
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Day of the Milkman by S. T. Cartledge
In a world dominated by the milk industry, only one milkman survives after a terrible storm sinks all the ships and throws the Great White Sea out of balance.
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Necrosaurus Rex by Nicolas Day
Necrosaurus Rex tells the tale of Martin, a simple janitor, who takes an unfortunate trip through time, becomes a violent mutant, and the father of us all. There’s 14 billion years crushed inside these pages, and most of them are pretty nasty.
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Bizarro Bizarro: An Anthology
The finest bizarro short stories from 2013.
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X’s for Eyes by Laird Barron
Between the machinations of the disciples of black gods and good old corporate skullduggery, it’s winding up to be of a hell of a summer vacation for the Tooms Brothers.