Things Between Covers
Some books from the smallest of small presses, some unpublished works, and a scurrilous Calvin & Hobbes remix
Loompaland
Loompaland unwraps a sticky confection of workers' rights, entrepreneur-worship, industrial food production, and the absurdities of unchecked corporate power. Gross candies roll off the lines, and the warning signs list all the fascinating ways a Loompa can be killed. Bill P and his fellow Loompas ricochet from triumph to disaster and back, in a novel that is fierce, funny, angry, and shot through with scenes of hilarity and terror.
Harp for a Broken Hand
A work in search of a publisher, this dark fantasy sends a half dead unicorn and a twist-fingered harpist on a desperate quest through a land of bric-a-brac. Old enemies don't reconcile, past crimes aren't forgiven, and the half-dead horse must become all the way dead again.
The Bible
The original BIBLE worked just fine back when people owned camels, ate locusts and wild honey, dwelt in the Land of Nod. But who does those things anymore? We are too busy paying the water bill, seeing the documentary, locking the garage. The new Bible by Matthew F. Amati is rethought, retranslated, reimagined. Out of its fragmentary mutterings emerges a hammer-blow of nonsensical perfect sense.
Boy Und Beast
From famed Croation anarchist and scofflaw Zarkus Bloot comes BOY UND BEAST, the riveting comic series about a demonic tiny man and his Protean shapeshifting familiar.
For Sale: Baby Shoes, Feet Included
18 stories of the weird and macabre. In "To Comfort the Headless Child" a nightmarish infant screams as he's read twisted Dr. Seuss stories like "Rat In The Hat." "Our Lady Cinderella of the Dying World" gives us evil stepsisters who toss expensive furniture onto garbage scows, while the cobbler hero of "One of a Perfect Pair" must avoid being made into human-skin sandals himself.
Konstantinople
A lethargic student hides in his room from his domineering uncle and halfheartedly composes a fantasy epic. Friends pop in and out of the window to add their own chunks of text, which adapt themselves to an evolving fictional universe, often in hilarious and surprising ways. Ship-swallowing whales, riddling rodents, zookeepers, detectives, and moon-men all conspire against reason and reality.