Showing titles in Absurdist

Halloween es una vez al año, pero el terror puede estar presente todos los días, y venir de fuentes insospechadas. Después de adentrarte en estos relatos, sé que no verás algunos de los objetos cotidianos que usas de la misma forma. Ten valentía y ¡Atrévete!

Jesus Farted by Demetric Canada is a gut-busting, mind-opening read that flips the script on how to handle crime—and it's not your typical cop story! Set in the gritty streets of Juarez, follow a resourceful Mexican police officer who keeps the peace using, shall we say, unconventional methods. Spoiler alert: no bullets, no bruises—just pure comedic genius! This book boldly tackles the global issue of police brutality with humor that’ll leave you gasping for air (in a good way). Think of it as a sharp-witted social commentary wrapped in a laugh-out-loud package. But don’t let the ...

After accepting a vague invitation, a writer finds himself at a mysterious and secluded hotel. He wants to checkout more than he wants to understand the bizarre situation unfolding around him, but an alluring journalist and an antagonistic desk manager complicate things. In this dreamlike, absurdist novel, Marco Cavazos explores themes like nature versus technology, and asks philosophical questions about life and existence all while never taking any of it too seriously. Surreal and funny.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Un scriitor (întâmplător sau nu, având același nume cu autorul) duce o existență cât se poate de mulțumitoare: singurul conflict autentic din viața lui, după cum ne anunță chiar de la început, este încăpățânarea de a scrie, când, după toate aparențele, nu are de ce. În lipsă de alte frământări, observă în tihnă lumea din jur și începe să ne povestească pe un ton firesc lucruri banale care i se întâmplă, în cartier și prin împrejurimi: o vizită la o clinică de gastroenterologie, prezentarea unor cursuri de scriere creativă la o librărie sau un drum la frizer.

"تمكتو" واحدة من روايات أوستر الغريبة والتي يأخذنا فيها كالعادة إلى عالمه المتناقض ما بين العبثية والوجودية لكن هذه المرة سيكون بطل الرواية " كلب" فجميع الأحداث ستأتي على لسان كلب يموت صاحبه الشاعر والكاتب شبه المجنون والمتشرد، ويتركه وحيدًا في العالم ليواجه فظاعات ما كانت تخطر له على بال... تتفرّع الرواية وتتشابك مع عوالم مختلفة واحداث كثيرة لكنها قبل كل شيء...عن صداقة تتجاوز حدود الموت نفسه !!

LONELINESS IS A KILLER, so people have said... and Martha is lonely, even though a neurological quirk makes her see familiar faces everywhere. To the extent that she has to hold down tricky conversations with jostling, self-important dollar bills, go lip-to-lip with a Hollywood icon, and ride a warhorse with a stiff and spectacular General, all within the same square mile. Neil Baker doesn’t even have quirks to break through his monotonous existence but don’t let us the readers be guilty of overlooking him too. Though exhaustion makes his soul invisible. Martha and Neil don't meet. But ...

The pandemic has brought them to a secluded Hawaiian monastery.An octogenarian aviatrix struggling with the onset of blindness. Her son, too preoccupied by the writings of Kierkegaard. A psychiatrist, now shunned by his patients, and his paid consort, a Hollywood make-up artist. His twin brother, a priest on non-voluntary sabbatical for a controversy in his parish. A master chef, whose restaurant is shuttered by the pandemic--out on bail for a failed bank robbery attempt. A semi-retired crime boss who realizes he might have a conscience after all. A disgraced former Senator, who goes on ...

From the author of The Loser Fandango and Van Boorean’s Hill There’s a serial killer loose in Atlanta and the only man who suspects it is a washed-up cop on his way out. Fighting against the clock, fighting against apathy, he’s on his own, on his last legs, and down to the wire. social satire at its best. Unrue deftly skewers the genteel south and gets away with it

Marco Etheridge is a writer of fiction, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His stories have been published in more than eighty reviews, journals, and magazines in Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA. Power Tools gathers twenty-one of his best short stories into one collection. An elderly woman sets out alone on a journey into a new life. Two soldiers in a bunker share candy and memories. A widower takes on the Supreme Court with a robot. Grief is sung over the cobbled streets of Valletta. Two old heroes question their purpose. These ...

Joseph Chance stands on a station platform, suitcase in hand, trying to decide what he wants to do. Should he take the job as junior salesman in the thriving industrial city of Sleighton – or should he become an artist in the Bohemian coastal resort of Amblesea? He doesn’t have long to decide. Trains to both places are leaving in the next hour. A woman offers him a coin. Heads Sleighton, tails Amblesea. But this, it turns out, is no ordinary coin. As it rises, spinning, from his thumbnail, Joseph’s life splits in two. He becomes Joe, the penniless Amblesea artist, in love with Ruby, ...

30 very short stories from the even cheaper seats

Sterling Page never thought that, some day, he'd be sailing across the ocean with a robot, a fairy, a hot-tempered teddy bear, and a sewer lizard. But when a strange creature breaks into his house and tells him his sister is still alive, Page embarks on an adventure to another world to find her. Unfortunately for Page, this is a world that rarely makes sense, a world where boats get stuck in clouds, storks deliver baby dragons, and leftover biscuits turn into flying monsters. Blending together The Odyssey and Alice in Wonderland, The Second Page is filled with both silly humor and dangerous...

Пугающая реальность этой фантастической повести родилась из доведенного до абсурда понятия "демократии" - когда каждый индивидуум живет по своим законам и борется против всех и все другие борются против него.

AN AMERICAN PHOENIX: ELECTION, BOOK 2 IN THE ALRIGHT SELLING SERIES IS NOW OUT! "The characters are multi-dimensional, and Mr. Savana truly throws in a cross-section of American personalities from every end of the racial, social, and political spectrum. He not only presents them… but he has them down. From the right to the left, from Rapping YouTube 'influencers' to Big Ol Belt Buckle Country Boys, I could SEE these characters, and I couldn’t help to start ‘casting’ this movie as I read." - Amazon Review Reality and Ridicule Collide in "An American Phoenix: Unity" Welcome to Houston...

When Dr. Cline offers Dr. Morrison a large sum of money to take a patient off his hands, it should have been a red flag… but Dr. Morrison disregards it. After all, the patient’s condition is nothing out of the ordinary. How difficult can she be?...

Shezlez the Self-Proclaimed is an absurdist story about a poor man's ambition to organise his own political party in an unnamed country characterised by moral apathy, poverty and heartless bureaucracy. Upon his first speech, so rousing as to attract the attention of the Progressive Party, Shezlez finds himself embroiled in a corrupt scheme of deceit and backstabbing in the leadup to the upcoming mayoral elections.

A story that pertains to the lives of all human beings conflicted by the constant bombardment of information. In an era where information capitalism assaults us with algorithms that track every careless click, a heartbroken man plunges into an empirical quest for certainties.

Marco Etheridge is a writer of fiction, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His stories have been published in reviews, journals, and magazines in Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA. Broken Luggage gathers twenty-four of his best flash stories into one collection. A man's life condensed into the broken luggage that will contain it. A young woman alone in the Sonoran Desert. Memories of dangerous eggs, thunderstorms, and a gunshot man. A character tours his self-made hell. Another steps from between the pages. Parables of sand and ...

Sexy Southern Belle embarks on an adventure to New York City to make money for medical school and fulfill her foodie passion. She finds herself working in a brand package design firm in a cesspool of irritating co-workers with a boss, who is a lecherous old coot. Her only sanity is the dreamy Spanish God who is a co-owner of the business, a sexy Brit, who is a graphic designer, and her best gay guy friend. She unexpectedly gets caught in a love triangle. She finds herself being torn between her desires and being true to herself.

Huesudo es un huesero que suele cargar su camioneta con restos de vacas de las carnicerías. Tiene una manera peculiar de hablar y filosofar sobre la vida en su país, Argentina. Siempre trabaja acompañado del Negro, amigo que siempre le espera para cobrar por su trabajo... y el Guacho, que cobra in situ sus honorarios de ser fiel en la cuesta de la vida. Cuento escrito con mucho lunfardo rioplatense, si usted no pertenece al cono sur, Argentina o Uruguay, es posible que no entienda mucho de la jerga cotidiana originada por la fusión (y deformación) de oleadas de inmigrantes llegadas en ...