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The brownies are on strike. A dragon is running for the State House of Representatives. And hipsters of all species want to live in the Fairy District.

This is the story of cryptids and humans living in the same world, one where it's not as obvious as you might think to figure out who around you is a monster.

"If Neil Gaiman wrote for The Onion -- Jess Simms' monstrous, succinct satires hold up a funhouse mirror to our society, revealing uncanny, and unforgettable, comic reflections." — Rick Claypool, author of Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War

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Everyone! In the Dream! Is You!

by Adam Dove

In these six stories, full of dangerous magic, fragile men, and broken families, Adam Dove explores the macabre reality of masculinity and the lives it destroys.

A teenager becomes trapped in a cyclical dreamscape, turning a high school crush into an absurdist nightmare. A promising sculptor uses a new technique to mold his lover into the perfect woman. A deserted child’s search for his missing father leads him to the sinkhole on the outskirts of town—which his classmates say leads straight to Hell.

Spanning the breadth of genre and blurring the lines between reality, dream, and nightmare, the stories in Everyone! In the Dream! Is You! show us that beneath the hardened shell of masculinity is a broken, wailing humanity, desperate to be free.

The world has fallen apart. The leaders of the last remaining civilization believe that for humanity to survive, they need an outlet for their violent nature.

Those inside the Walltowns don’t have much of a life (their sole purpose in this new world is to act as whipping posts for those Outside), but Isaac, the Posts’ reluctant leader, is doing what he can to keep his community as strong as possible.

When two new arrivals (a teenage girl transferred from another Walltown and an infant born illegally within the Wall) upset the delicate balance of the Posts’ survival, Isaac must find a way to protect the lives of everyone he can.

A bartender's journey through Hell. But this isn't just any hell. This is The Inferno, the finest restaurant in the netherworlds, where Earth's most terrible customers are doomed for eternity. Join our hero as he is guided through the various dining rooms of The Inferno by a high-ranking demon who looks suspiciously like a certain globe-trotting chef. Witness celebrity chef hell-beasts and ironic punishments for the sinners who've found themselves here.

Gluttony, lust, wrath. Treachery, sloth, pride. Whatever your sin, there's always room for you at the Inferno. It's a dining experience unlike any other.

Marty

by Shawn Maddey

Through personal anecdotes and reported pieces, Robert Isenberg takes us on a winding journey on two wheels.

Mile Markers is a lyrical and good-humored celebration of the bicycle, from the perspective of a middle-aged father with an average physique and outsized curiosity. Like a meandering jaunt around the neighborhood, this is a book for regular riders--folks who are happy just to climb onto that saddle and see what's out there.

“Few writers are capable of pulling readers out of their seats and into an adventure like Robert. I could practically feel Mile Markers in my legs by the end.” — Joe Bauer, author of Talking Tico

Marty likes toast and cake and elephants and mostly he likes Melon Day.

Marty lives with Charlie and Andy, and even if one of them is always sad in his room and the other likes to yell loud, he still thinks they are good to live with.

Marty gets through his days as best as he can.

This “poetry novella” explores themes of friendship, family, depression, and loss, all set against a backdrop of rural Appalacia during the beginning of the COVID pandemic.

You’ve survived a plane crash in the remote mountains of the Yukon by cannibalizing your dead friends, and it’s made you famous. How do you return to your life?

If you’re Travis, you drink, get high, and get laid. You get a job at the morgue. You join a support group unlike anything you could have imagined. And you do your best to survive this new life, too.

“A terrific read! Author Daniel Parme has a delightfully dark sense of humor. This twisted and thought-provoking story is punctuated with comedic moments that will make you laugh out loud and will keep you glued to the book until the very end.” — Susan Dynner, producer of After Porn Ends and Brick

Confluence is the story of Sheena, Gideon, Thomas, and Eddie — four Pittsburgh natives whose lives are brought together by one brutal, and deadly, event. In the aftermath, relationships are forged, people are thrown from rooftops, vengeance is sworn, love is made, drugs are done, families are torn apart or strengthened, and horseshoes are thrown. Not necessarily in that order.

All water eventually flows into other water, and so it goes with the lives of thse four Yinzers.