Dream City and Other Stories
Forty-two stories spanning literary horror, dark comedy, spy fiction, and suburban dread. For readers of Palahniuk, Saunders, and Denis Johnson.
Dream City and Other Stories collects forty-two works of short fiction across literary horror, dark comedy, transgressive fiction, historical absurdism, and everything between.
A painter plays Russian roulette before breakfast. A Coca-Cola can philosophizes about death inside a vending machine. An 18th-century army gets drunk and fires on itself. A woman tells a stranger in a café the next seven years of his life.
Someone once said art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. These stories skip the first half. They disturb everyone. The comfortable get their certainties peeled back. The already disturbed get the recognition of seeing their own interior weather on the page, which is its own kind of comfort, the kind that leaves bruises.