Hard-boiled horror is leavened with witty dialogue and humor in S. Craig Zahler’s "Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus". The story begins with an eerie episode in which a homeless man is drugged and taken to a hidden lab for... Read More

Transcendent and surreal, A. Degen’s "The Marchenoir Library" mixes superheroes and humor. Taking inspiration from the comic book tradition of pulpy, attention-grabbing graphics, this is a tale told as a collection of covers to stories... Read More

The satirical cartoons compiled in "Trump" poke cheeky fun at current events and political figures. America’s forty-fifth president is the subject E. M. Fintan’s political and satirical "Trump". Moving from the 2016 presidential... Read More

A lighthearted story, "Penguin Days" follows Lauren, who is on the autism spectrum. She sometimes misreads social cues, like not understanding why others laugh; she is not always included in groups. Still, Lauren is a rambunctious... Read More

"Take a Hike!" contains engaging and educational poems that deliver appealing lessons about language. Brett Fleishman’s "Take a Hike!" is an age-appropriate compilation of humorous poems that build off of puns and idioms to entertain... Read More

How to prepare for this collection? Pick your teeth with an axe after chewing on some freshly split ash. Carly Joy Miller is relentless. She doesn’t want you to breathe normally. Her lines resemble piano wire around the neck of a scary... Read More

The arrival of a new poet doesn’t cause stars to wobble or birds to fall from trees—as far as we know—but heads do turn and the inevitable sizing up begins immediately. Kailey Tedesco, help yourself to a glass of bubbly, you are... Read More

Long stretches of hunger, sleep deprivation, filth, fear-filled nights under bridges, and the accompanying existential questions will leave a mark on a man, and his poetry. Kai Carlson-Wee lays it out there in this shy, wistful,... Read More