A KISS cover-band leader pondering a fertility-driven criminal act, a boy watching his hair-metal dad search for love on reality TV, a quiet teenage metalhead stumbling into her own voice while trailing her former roadie father—these are the characters seeking resolution, tempering expectations, and occasionally finding grace and the dignity and strength to go on. Dave Housley's collection examines the quiet desperation and occasional triumphs of growing up and growing older through the prism of music.
Dave Housley's work has appeared in Hobart, Mid-American Review, Nerve, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Barrelhouse Magazine, this is his third book.

If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home

Literature & Fiction

Housley, Dave

Humor & Satire

Dzanc Books

Eighteen brief stories inspired by television commercials produced by America's favorite brands. What if actual human beings lived in the worlds created by brand marketers? A Taco Bell test kitchen is pushed to its limits. A new Lexus for Christmas takes a family over the edge. An exceptional outing with extremely beautiful people becomes transcendent when onion cheeseburgers get passed around. Budweiser, Cialis, Toyota and KFC are a few of the other branded worlds explored here, where everyday lives are shaped by human needs as much as marketing strategy.

Commercial Fiction

Literary

Outpost19

From Dave Housley, one of the founding editors of Barrelhouse, comes a ghostly, comic new novel that asks just one seemingly innocent question: What would you do if your fellow office workers won the lottery?\n"The Office meets Then We Came to the End meets that recurring nightmare where your most loathsome co-workers win the lottery that you mocked them for playing each week...a sly gem of a novel." 
— Leslie Pietrzyk,author of Admit This to No One\nIn The Other Ones, Housley tracks the actions and reactions of multiple characters in the wake of a cataclysmic event — a coworker winning the lottery. For better or worse, what can you do? Some coworkers dig in, some quit, some go...more than a little crazy. One commits suicide by jumping off the roof of the office, then returns as a ghost to haunt the winners. Funny, tragic, and real, The Other Ones shines a light on our contemporary relationships to money, work, and each other.\n"Using his trademark wry, observant humor, Dave Housley explores a fascinating premise —when an office lottery pool hits the jackpot, what happens to the workers who are now multi-millionaires versus those who didn't put in a dollar to play? Filled with insights and skewering commentary on office politics and relationships, marketing culture, ageism, and commercialism, THEOTHER ONES delivers a funny and suspenseful tale of a corporate crisis as you've never read before." 
— Angie Kim, author of Miracle Creek\n"Dave Housley's The Other Ones is a riotous and bighearted office comedy, about a surprising kind of Rapture where it's not a heavenly force that whisks away half of your co-workers but a winning lottery ticket you forget to throw in on. Fans of Chris Bachelder or Sam Lipsyte will thrill as Housley applies eight point eight million dollars worth of regret to his loveable left-behind heroes, eager to learn who will crack among the cubicles and who might find another way to win their own good life." 
— Matt Bell, author of Appleseed

The Other Ones

Alan Squire Publishing

A combat photographer transitions to suburban life. An overcrowded clown car picks up too much speed. A Sara Lane Luxury Cruise takes a vindictive turn. In this series of linked stories, each one ends in fire. Woven between them are descriptions of life after a fiery apocalyptic event, something close to the end of the world.

Massive Cleansing Fire

This Darkness Got to Give is a story to die for…
Cain lives the unconventional life of a Deadhead, one of the many fans following the Grateful Dead’s fateful 1995 tour as part of the Dead’s colorful, uninhibited entourage. A vampire determined to fly below the governmental radar, he has carefully constructed his life into one of sheep’s blood and self-control. Drugs aren’t really his thing considering the circumstances, but it only takes one dose from a stranger for Cain’s world to collapse around him and end in what he’d been determined to avoid: murder. 
Bodies mount behind Cain as his control frays ever further, and more than one government agency takes notice. The FBI sends Jenkins, a methodical agent who has experience with vampires, and the secretive Invasive Species Division sends Peter, a rootless recent grad who fits a strange list of qualifications. The closer those on Cain’s trail get, however, the less straightforward capturing him becomes, until decades-old governmental secrets are forced into the light and those responsible must face justice, one way or another.

This Darkness Got To Give

Genre Fiction

Pandamoon Publishing

This Darkness Got to Give is a story to die for... Cain lives the unconventional life of a Deadhead, one of the many fans following the Grateful Dead's fateful 1995 tour as part of the Dead's colorful, uninhibited entourage. A vampire determined to fly below the governmental radar, he has carefully constructed his life into one of sheep's blood and self-control. Drugs aren't really his thing considering the circumstances, but it only takes one dose from a stranger for Cain's world to collapse around him and end in what he'd been determined to avoid: murder. Bodies mount behind Cain as his control frays ever further, and more than one government agency takes notice. The FBI sends Jenkins, a methodical agent who has experience with vampires, and the secretive Invasive Species Division sends Peter, a rootless recent grad who fits a strange list of qualifications. The closer those on Cain's trail get, however, the less straightforward capturing him becomes, until decades-old governmental secrets are forced into the light and those responsible must face justice, one way or another.

The Greys

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Barnard, Becky

Science Fiction

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If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home

Commercial Fiction

The Other Ones

Massive Cleansing Fire

This Darkness Got To Give

This Darkness Got To Give

The Greys