A book of haiku written by the Champion of haiku. Fuck you.                                  

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Literature & Fiction

Myers, Josh

Poetry

Carrion Blue 555

555 Vol. 3: Questions & Cancers

Short Stories & Anthologies

Man woke on the floor of an unfamiliar living room. He couldn't remember how he got there. In fact, he couldn't remember anything. I was protecting something. I think. Man winced when he stood up. His head was really killing him. He went out the shattered front door, and started his long search for... something. —Nathaniel Lambert, "Chapter 34 is Another Flashback" 555 stories. 55 words each. 5 minutes to live. Wait, what? NOW YOU FUCKED UP Explore the surreal, the horrific, and the absurd in this compilation of short-short stories by eleven of the best entertainers in the indie press community. With so many stories to choose from, there's something for everyone* to love. The first in a series of five such collections, 555 Vol. 1 will force you to question the limits of storytelling. *Except Jim. There's no pleasing Jim, and we have made no attempt to do so. Ricardo peeled his face back like a banana peel and gently folded the weathered skin. A green motherboard whirred inside the contours of his face and lights flashed on and off. He fiddled with the central processing unit and something hissed. His mouth opened. "Death is but a circuit board humming away into the night." —Grant Wamack, "Modern Ruins"

555 Vol. 1: None So Worthy

Matthew Revert

William Pauley III

Jess Gulbranson

Gabino Iglesias

Aleathia Drehmer

Grant Wamack

Justin Grimbol

Nathaniel Lambert

Josh Myers

"You know that homeless guy on the bus who sidles up to you and begins to mumble about aliens? Savage Anesthesia is what you might get if he tied you up and made you listen to him long enough that he began to make sense. Obscene and surreal, these are mindscapes to get lost in."—Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses A collection of stories wherein the absurd is made tangible in a world we can't help but recognize as our own. From the author of The Blood Poetry come tales of sex, romance, heartbreak, and finding one's place in the world. "A work of stark and strange realism about a wholle unreal place: our very own world, which has rarely been reported on with such piercing focus. An original, paranoid, intense book of stories."—Ben Marcus, Leaving the Sea "Leland Pitts-Gonzalez does not transport the reader to another headspace so much as he transforms the reader. After coming out of Savage Anesthesia, looking at words, thoughts, or people in the same light is an impossibility. To say that this is addictively irreverent is an under-statement."—John Edward Lawson, Bibliophile

Savage Anesthesia

Pitts-Gonzalez, Leland

For he spake—The gates of divinity part and out rush predatory birds. The taste of strawberries. The shepherd raises their right hand, breaks bread. An owl by any other name. There is a merry gaiety in harvesting human teeth from nectarous fruit.—and it was done. He commanded—A hellscape of rot and rut. Brittle angels and biting insects. Flutes salt the earth. The corpse of a coelacanth dissolves into pastel foam. Sibilant language chewing women, ushering neurotoxins, belching charred oak. And, then, rain.—and it stood fast. Ekphrastic prose and poetry in (ir)reverence to The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Honey & Sulphur

Genre Fiction

I probably deserved it when the pyramid of sweaty cheerleaders toppled upon me, crushing my rib-cage in a flurry of bone and scrunchies and tartan up-skirts--so many plastic pompoms pummeling my face and crushing my throat from the weight--a mass of perky prettiness screaming in that way that is sort of still cheering. --Michael A. Arnzen, "Cheerleader Pyramid Accident"   The 555-story sequel that no one asked for!   From award-winning horror junkies to up-and-coming bizarro masterminds, experimental gurus to old school Weird fictioneers, this anthology series continues to bring the best that flash fiction has to offer.   The fog is red like an exit light. It tastes like dry ice and rotting things. The winds blow it toward you. It howls into your body, knocks you down, carries blackened detritus into the yawning sky. Stoplights tip from concrete cradles, clamor to the ground. It could be beautiful, but it just fucking isn't. --Tiffany Morris, "Gusts On Mammoth Mountain"

555 Vol. 2: This Head, These Limbs

Jonathan Moon

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Atlantean Publishing with this revised and expanded edition of our King In Yellow anthology. Together with Carrion Blue 555, this collaborative release adds to the original line-up a dozen new tales of Hastur and the Hyades, Cassilda and Camilla. Avert your gaze from dim Carcosa, and trust not the hands of a living god.

A Terrible Thing

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