Another anthology that I will be in!

I had never taken a swipe at Bizarro fiction previously, but decided to take up the challenge when a submission call was put out earlier this year for Bizarro Horror Short stories.  I came up with a little piece of oddness called “Consumer’s Paradise”, which appears second in the Table of Contents of this book.  It has not been released yet, but as you can see, the cover has been designed already.  Hopefully, it will be out soon, because I can’t wait to check out the rest of these strange stories.

For those not in the know, Bizarro is defined as:

1. Bizarro, simply put, is the genre of the weird.

2. Bizarro is literature’s equivalent to the cult section at the video store.

3. Like cult movies, Bizarro is sometimes surreal, sometimes goofy, sometimes bloody, and sometimes borderline pornographic.

4. Bizarro often contains a certain cartoon logic that, when applied to the real world, creates an unstable universe where the bizarre becomes the norm and absurdities are made flesh.

5. Bizarro strives not only to be strange, but fascinating, thought-provoking, and, above all, fun to read.

6. Bizarro was created by a group of small press publishers in response to the increasing demand for (good) weird fiction and the increasing number of authors who specialize in it.

7. Bizarro is Franz Kafka meets Joe Bob Briggs, Dr. Suess of the postapocalypse, Japanese animation directed by David Lynch.

Very excited about this and will definitely be posting something once it has been released.