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Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. In Surreal Sevenlings: Weird Poetry Vol 3 Mundane Foolishness, the ordinary becomes anything but. A routine trip to the bus stop, brushing your teeth, or simply folding laundry transforms into a labyrinth of unsettling realities. From mailboxes that devour letters to family holiday gatherings that slip into the ...

Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn't fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and in exile, Zebra leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago.

Dr. Eden Draco lives in “The Cone” shaped sanctuary in the middle of Derinkegel. Only young and healthy people roam the Cone. She doesn’t have to pay for food and drinks, education, housing, medical care or anything having to do with her upkeep. With assigned partners, the government made sure all the workers have nothing to want for. She lives in total bliss and happiness but feels like something is missing.

A married couple struggling with infertility decide to go outside of their marriage for a consensual affair. One month, one exception and then they'll decide if IVF is right for them. Set in the sunny hills of Silver Lake, Los Angeles where the young artists and lawless musicians roam, comes this thrilling, fun, comedic love story that'll have you chuckling in public. Becca and Mark have been trying to have a baby for years. Technically, there's nothing wrong with them. They fight a lot, but what couple doesn't?

Show Puppies at the Puppy Parade Show is a comedy collection featuring the stories: THE PLACE WHERE THEY PAY WITH DOLL-HAIRS THE FIRST PERSON TO SAY HOLY GUACAMOLE! SHOW PUPPIES AT THE PUPPY PARADE SHOW Each story is written with one goal in mind: to make you laugh. In The Place Where They Pay With Doll-Hairs, meet the porcelain ponies of Tressville, where mysterious “doll-hairs” are worth trillions and the strange rules of the town lead to cosmic chaos. In The First Person to Say Holy Guacamole!, follow a cosmic research team searching for the origins of humanity’s greatest ...

A tender, poetic journey through the seasons of a woman’s life — where love, loss, and renewal move out of rhythm with the world around her. Life rarely unfolds in time with the seasons. While spring promises new beginnings, she faces the loss of her mother. As summer blazes, her marriage unravels in the heat. In autumn, career and certainty fall away like leaves. And when winter comes, she sits alone beside the fire, learning to be warmed by memory rather than company.

Hilarious, profound, and achingly true to life, Jonas Karlsson's new novel explores the true nature of happiness through the eyes of a hero you won't soon forget. A passionate film buff, our hero's life revolves around his part-time job at a video store, the company of a few precious friends, and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and a movie in his treasured, small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency, everything will tumble into madness.

The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together over 300 new and previously published short fictions - distilled works of "unsettling brilliance" (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of the American short story.

After a domestic terrorist unleashes a dirty bomb in Manhattan in 1970, making the borough uninhabitable, FBI Agent Uli Sarkisian finds himself in a world that is suddenly unrecognizable, as the United States faces its greatest immigration crisis ever: finding housing for millions of its own citizens. The federal government hastily retrofits an abandoned government installation in the Nevada desert. Despite the government's best intentions, as the military pulls out of "Rescue City", the residents are increasingly left to their own devices, and tribal gang warfare fuses with democracy.

“As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a...

Cree la gente, de modo casi unánime, que lo que a mí me interesa es escribir. Lo que me interesa es recordar, en el antiguo sentido de la palabra (despertar). Ignoro si recordar tiene relación con el corazón, como la palabra cordial, pero me gustaría que fuera así.

The dead don’t always stay buried. And some refuse to move on. After barely surviving his brush with death, Clay Donovan is stuck between worlds—his body clings to life, but his soul refuses to let go. As he struggles to understand the new rules of the afterlife, a restless spirit begins terrorizing a college campus, seeking vengeance on those who left him behind. Darcey, ever the fiend, is ready to do what she does best: eliminate the problem. But Clay isn’t convinced death is the only way out.

Fairy tales are as old as language itself. Long, long ago, storytellers all around the world told tales of wonder both to enchant and entertain us, and also to teach us that – if we are good and kind and courageous enough – we can change the world for the better. For this is what fairy tales do. They give us hope. As we travel through the dark and dangerous world of the fairy tale, as we fight dragons and outwit ogres and save our sisters and brothers, we learn that we are capable of anything.

La storia fantastica di Alice letta integralmente ad alta voce. Un capolavoro assoluto della letteratura mondiale per divertire piccini e grandi.

Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing and reveling in pleasure and pain as a lifetime of chaotic and grotesque sense memories wash over and envelop him. In this bold and brilliant short work of experimental fiction by the author of Grief...

As if hauled up squirming from the bowels of the internet, Sex Goblin metabolizes sex writing, popular culture, and autofiction to present the real and the imagined as equally surreal possibilities. In the narrator's childlike voice, all things become both mundane and strange—a child and their dog fused after a car accident, moments of tenderness amidst frat hazing, witches, and hiking accidents.

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Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I, in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas. Its intention was, according to leader André Breton, to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality,” or surreality. It produced works of painting, writing, photography, theatre, filmmaking, music, comedy and other media as well. Works of surrealism feature the element of ...

One morning, upon waking from troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself in his bed transformed into a monstrous vermin. With that sentence — one of the most famous in all of literature — Franz Kafka set in motion a text that would permanently alter how we understand fiction, the absurd, and the invisible machinery of family life. First published in 1915, The Metamorphosis tells the final days of Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who single-handedly supports his family and who, after an inexplicable transformation, discovers that their love has very precise limits — the limits of ...

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. In Surreal Sevenlings: Weird Poetry Vol 1 Whimsically Grotesque nothing is quite as it seems, and everything is far stranger than you could imagine. Flowers gossip over coffee about their wilting fashion, umbrellas stage debates on the ethics of rain, and skies forget how to shine. This collection is a kaleidoscope ...