Comedian Mitch Hedberg's creative legacy is celebrated in this collection of seventeen short stories inspired by his most loved jokes.An acid trip, a quest to reclaim the sesame seed, an underground association of sandwich enthusiasts, the first ever suburban koala infestation, a Nyquil-tipsy priest, a view from inside the parade, a very, very hungry diner, a girlfriend who isn't, and an apartment where every few feet is a bedroom, the seventeen stories in this anthology "yes, and" the jokes of late comedian Mitch Hedberg. At turns hilarious, poignant, silly, haunting, and rife with word play, What I Thought of Ain't Funny, an anthology of short fiction based on the jokes of Mitch Hedberg pays tribute to the imaginative ingenuity and the writing genius of Mitch Hedberg, opening up the ridiculous of this world, and hanging out with the complicated human beings who live inside it.

What I Thought of Ain't Funny

Literature & Fiction

Malarkey Books

The War on Xmas

Good, Alan

Fearless

Warner, Benjamin

Guess What's Different is a collection of essays about the moments no one wants to talk about. Family history, family secrets. Anxiety, depression, and grief. With sharp prose and an open heart, Susan Triemert brings these moments back to life and makes you care about people you don't know. Even when it hurts, she writes about her life and family with honesty and tenderness, from the pain and confusion of losing her parents, to the joy of finding her children through adoption. To Triemert, every moment matters. Memories fade and shape our narratives, and photographs should be scrutinized for any missing truths. It's the writing that gets you though. Whether they're sad or scary or sweet, Triemert's style and precision turn these essays into stories that you really don't want to end.

Guess What's Different

Triemert, Susan

Literary

Your Favorite Poet

The poems in this collection are about being alive and wanting to stay alive. They are poems teetering off a cliff. Poems created by the first and last feeling worth feeling. Poems about guns and sex and what follows both: daughters and husbands ducking from bullets. LeighChadwick weeps a collection that is both monstrous and intimate, terrifying and beautiful. With an eye for making the mundane extraordinary, Chadwick uses wit and charm to remind us that everything is bad, but we still have poetry. In this nightmare world, Your Favorite Poet is a dream.\nPraise for Your Favorite Poet:\n"Leigh Chadwick is an absurdist with a heart of gold, funny and strange on the page and always precisely herself, no matter the persona she's taking on-including that of Your Favorite Poet. These poems are a party come to break your heart, wondrously smart and wonderfully weird."\n-Matt Bell, author of Appleseed\n"Somehow I get the feeling that since Leigh Chadwick is here to write about our world that everything will be all right."\n-Maureen Seaton, author of Undersea\n"True to its title, Your Favorite Poet delivers everything you'd expect of your favorite poet: crackling language, sharp intelligence, blistering insights, and the kind of heartbreak helixed with humor befitting a keenly observant writer wielding impeccable craft. Leigh Chadwick is a master of building and deconstructing a scene, a writer so dexterous at pivoting from one image to the next and so wrecking ball-powerful at shattering a narrative that every poem left me steeped in delight or devastation, wondering: how did she do that? Stop what you're doing right now and buy this brilliant book."\n-Todd Dillard, author of Ways We Vanish\n"From suburban heart-sprawl to bacterial conjunctivitis to onions in the attic, Leigh Chadwick brings tears to the eyes. Mixing dubstep and dada, wit and luscious images, these poems are voice- driven kazoos in a church pew during communion. If Chadwick isn't your favorite poet, she may be your favorite poem."\n-Alina Stefanescu, author of Dor

Chadwick, Leigh

Poetry

Faith is a coming-of-age tale about Arit Essien, a first-generation Nigerian-American woman born and raised in the U.S. who resettles in Nigeria. The novel is a meditation where several generations of women riff on ideas of faith, expectation, identity, and independence. It's a poignant conversation between the dead and the living, the past and the present, and a young woman grappling to find her place in it all.

Faith

Bassey, Itoro

United States

Product Description It's been a year since defiant vandal Marco Polo Woodridge lost his father in a gruesome factory accident at J. Lowell's Meat Factory, the noxious Midwestern pork giant that employs the majority of Prairie Ridge, Illinois's residents. Despite the smell of death in the air-both from the lingering memory of Charles Woodridge and the thousands of pigs slaughtered daily at J. Lowell's-the people of Prairie Ridge live in a state of regretful acceptance of the company's hold on the community. That is, until Marco Polo teams up with Susan and Margaret Banks, the mother-daughter duo committed to restoring Illinois's native tree population and sticking it to the man all the while.Deliver Thy Pigs follows Marco Polo as he navigates an unwavering desire for revenge, his responsibility to the town, and his distaste for the self-pitying and overwhelmed J. Lowell's manager, Dave Hughes. As Marco Polo, Susan, and Margaret exercise escalating acts of protest against the factory, the novel explores themes of community, loss, revenge, and connection to nature. With grit, humor, and Midwestern charm, Pigs examines what happens when you bite the hand that feeds, and what happens when that hand is the very one destroying you. Review "A timely and addictive antidote for our times, witty and sensory. A jaunt through grief and revenge I will not forget." -William Burtch, co-author of W.G. About the Author Joey Hedger is author of the chapbook, In the Line of a Hurricane, We Wait (Red Bird Chapbooks). A former Floridian, avid nature lover, and amateur birder, he currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia. You can find his writing at joeyhedger.com.

Deliver Thy Pigs

Hedger, Joey

Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star's lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper's final job for her late employer. An exhumation to retrieve a poetry manuscript. Ghosts haunting atomic test sites of the American west. The dangers facing podcasters, mud loggers, and rural veterinarians. Landlords and gods and rocks and monsters.\nToadstones is a collection of short stories firmly in the tradition of the weird tale. They evoke the sensation of catching an unnerving movement out of the corner of your eye, of hearing a sudden and unidentifiable skittering in the walls, of dreaming about a strange city where you meet someone you would have sworn died long ago. Explore the uncanny shadows occluding what we thought was a mundane world in these sixteen (that's twice eight, or four fours; are you tracking the numerology?) stories.\n﻿Destined to be an underworld classic, these stories by everyone's favorite anarchocommunist calling upon the aid of Hell will have you believing in the unbelievable-and thinking twice before you let another repair guy in your house.

Toadstones

WILLIAMS, ERIC

Malarkey Books is proud to publish It Came From the Swamp, an anthology of short stories about the creatures that haunt our dreams and fuel our fantasies. Some of the creatures here, like the sasquatch if you ever find one, are flesh and blood animals. Others, like DG Bracey's Boo Hag and Edward Karshner's Appalachian golem, are the stuff of folklore, relics of a bygone era thriving on our fascination with the unknown. Though the subject might be the cryptids themselves, the real stars here are the human beings. The predatory privilege of the men in Jaq Evans' "Flood Tide" is more monstrous than anything lurking in the shallows. Meagan Lucas' Mishipeshu, the water panther of Anishinaabe lore, is blamed for the all-too-human sins of the past.\nEdited by Joey R. Poole\nCover design by Sarah Allen Reed\nStories by DG Bracey, Sheldon Birnie, Jon Doyle, Jaq Evans, Zakariah Johnson, Edward Karshner, Steve Lambert, Meagan Lucas, J.S. McQueen, and T.A. Simonelli.

It Came From the Swamp

Genre Fiction

White People on Vacation is a story about the struggle to live a meaningful life in the era of late-stage capitalism. More specifically, it is about a group of college students (white) who take a vacation (cursed) to Hawaii, which is paid for by their parents (loaded). Everybody has a terrible time in this portrait of clueless haoles attempting to leverage their generational wealth and skin color to attain the good life. White People on Vacation is a beach read for socialists, a swan song for human aspiration in the age of climate apocalypse.

White People on Vacation

MILLER, Alex

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