Being a teenager is awkward. Being a teenager when you’re attracted to your aunt is even more awkward. Being a teenager when you’re attracted to your aunt who happens to be a seventies pin-up poster hanging in your uncle’s bathroom is almost unbearable. Aunt Poster is a coming of age story like you’ve never seen before, a tale of guilt, lust and obsession with no easy answers. Can love conquer all this awkwardness? Probably not. ABOUT THIS SERIES For eight years, the New Bizarro Author Series has highlighted up-and-coming voices in the Bizarro Fiction genre with annual releases by new authors. For many of these authors, it is their first book ever published. We invite you to take a chance on an author you may never have heard of and we hope you enjoy what you find. If you like what you read here and want more from this writer, go to www.eraserheadpress.com and let us know.

Aunt Poster (New Bizarro Author Series)

Literature & Fiction

Comunale, John Wayne

Humor & Satire

Eraserhead Press

Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive, weird, and entertaining works. --WikipediaBreaking Bizarro is a twenty-six story melting pot of weirdness, from some of the best authors in the genre. Enjoy!Contributing Authors: John Wayne Comunale, David W. Barbee, Patrick C. Harrison III, Chris Miller, J.D. Graves, Dani Brown, Cody Higgins, Frank J. Edler, Catherine J. Cole, Chandler Morrison, G. Arthur Brown, Shoshana Sumrall Frerking, Robert Essig, Mara Malins, Michael Brueggeman, Duncan P. Bradshaw, Brian Asman, Sam Richard, Elana Gomel, C.J. Silver, Mike Sherer, C.C. Parker, Luciano Marano, C.J. Carter-Stephenson, Kyle Rader, and James Dorr.

Breaking Bizarro

Death's Head Press

The culling took most of the men from Cochran Texas away to a dusty old town that exists between this plane and the next called Cocytus. Run by a maniacal power-hungry man named Lycus and his adopted protégé daughter Alastor, he conducts chaos with the help of a group of bandits called Calamity Three. His goal: tip the cosmic scales to bring the Void crashing into the world and claim the place of power to which he believes he is owed. Loyalty is a flimsy commodity in Cocytus, and with Behemoth rushing from the celestial abyss to heed a distant call this small Texas town nestled somewhere between here and hell has no idea what's in store.

All of Your Dreams Will Come True When You're Dead (Splatter Western)

Genre Fiction

Seventeen authors re-imagine the biblical apocalypse and all the hell that follows in sixteen horrifying tales. What if the prophecies of Revelation hit today? What sort of craziness and evil would ensue? With this list of excellent authors contributing, it's sure to be a Hell of a read!Wrath James WhiteSam WestThe Sisters of SlaughterJeff StrandK Trap JonesC Derick MillerChristine MorganPatrick C. Harrison IIIJohn Wayne ComunaleHyäne SawbonesDelphine QuinnJames WattsWile E. YoungChris MillerMark DeloyRichard Raven

AND HELL FOLLOWED: An Anthology

White, Wrath James

West, Sam

Miller, Chris

Garza, Michelle

Young, Wile E.

Strand, Jeff.

Lason, Melissa

Quinn, Delphine

Independently published

Everyone is looking for shortcuts in life, but rarely do they find the kind they're looking for, and when they do it never turns out like they thought. But what if you were to accidentally fall into cahoots with an other-worldly creature who could provide those shortcuts and so much more? Of course, there's always a price attached to such favors, but killing gets easier the more you do it, and everything is great as long as the rewards outweigh the risk. That is until you find out this was never true and you've inadvertently set into motion something so horrible you lack the capacity to understand or accept it.

Death Pacts and Left-Hands Paths

Grindhouse Press

A filthy barfly haunts the bar down the road. He lives off the leftover dregs of the patrons' beers and spent cigarettes he finds on the ground. He may be living in the trunk of someone's car. His name is Scummer. He's mysterious and elusive. He's unbound by inhibitions and you want to be just like him.

Scummer

Artie is a serial killer obsessed with As Seen On T.V. products. Collecting and modifying these items is his only passion outside of killing, which he’s been doing a long time. Far longer than most of his peers, but Artie always took special care to make sure he remained free. Now a strange, small man has moved next door to him, and the smell of popcorn hangs thick in the air. After a few odd interactions with him, Artie starts to wonder if there’s something other than himself that’s kept him from being caught.

As Seen On T.V.

Beth is ready to move out and be on her own when she suddenly inherits a house from her Aunt Agnes who she's only met once. Her mother is vague about the relationship the sisters had but decides to let Beth move into the house alone. It starts with bad dreams and mild auditory hallucinations. Then, the hallucinations become more than auditory. Something is happening to Beth and she believes the explanation lays in the cryptic journals she finds in the house. Meanwhile she's yet to go in the basement and the forest is closing in around her. She thought she was ready to be on her own. She thought her mother supported her. She thought her Aunt was dead.

The Cycle

Jake loves his job working for a local family-owned craft ice cream factory. That is, until he's transferred to the company's main facility on the other side of town. The new workplace means new rules. And that means no more showing up on the job stoned and having two beers for lunch. The new position makes him uncomfortable and, while he's told there are numerous coworkers, they never seem to be around much when he's there. When his best friend goes missing and his new supervisors show up at a party, Jake begins to dig deeper. All of the strange occurrences seem to connect to a discontinued role-playing game Jake owned as a child, Mage of the Hellmouth. It all leaves Jake wondering what secrets are hidden in the ice cream.

Mage of the Hellmouth

A dozen stories! Each one truer than the last! John Wayne Comunale, Houston¿s greatest Renaissance man and author of bizarro fiction, including: Aunt Poster (Eraserhead Press); Charge Land (Rooster Republic); and Porn Star Retirement Plan (New Kink Books); he has split his imagination like wet pine over and over again¿¿But! for this book, Comunale has forsaken his fertile imagination in order to give you the most bizarro kind of stories an author can tell: real, 100% true stories.John Wayne Lied To You: A Mostly True Account of the Adventures of a Modern Day Hero If you can¿t live the adventure, then you can certainly read about it.

John Wayne Lied To You: A Mostly True Account of the Adventures of a Modern Day Hero

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Rooster Republic Press

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