Colin Winnette

Marrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is for readers of Ling Ma, Dave Eggers’s The Circle, and viewers of the hit Apple TV+ original series Severance 

Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its “original experiences,” has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. The “game” is simple: a user’s simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. Responding to and manipulating the user's mind and body in perfect, dystopian harmony, The Ghost Lover becomes wildly popular—and wildly controversial—in the VR world. 

When Miles receives a series of anonymous death threats—typed notes sealed in envelopes with no postage or return address—paranoid panic begins blurring his own sense of reality, catalyzing the collapse of his career, his marriage, and his relationship with his children. 

The once-promising road to success becomes a narrow set of choices for Miles, who, in a last ditch effort to save his job, pitches his masterpiece, a revolutionary device code-named the Egg, which will transform the company. The consequences for Miles seal him inside the walls of his life as what was once anxiety explodes into devastating absoluteness. 

In a world rife with the unchecked power and ambition of tech, Users investigates—with both humor and creeping dread—how interpersonal experiences and private decisions influence the hasty developments that have the power to permanently alter the landscape of human experience.

Users

It's a classic setup for a scary story: A boy arrives at an orphanage; the headmaster acts strangely; the other children can't seem to be trusted. But as people go missing and bodies turn up, this slippery and knowing Gothic murder mystery upsets all of our expectations.

The Job of the Wasp

"Funny, brutal and haunting, Haints Stay takes the traditional Western, turns it inside out, eviscerates it, skins it, and then wears it as a duster. This is the kind of book that would make Zane Gray not only roll over in his grave but rise undead from the ground with both barrels blazing."?Brian Evenson "Winnette's spinning narratives will leave you white-knuckled, gasping, laughing uncomfortably and voraciously, and feeling a good bit more alive than when you started."?Alissa Nutting Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them while between towns. For miles, there is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes, people. The story follows the middling bounty hunters after they've been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit of their own sense of belonging and justice. It features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, a transgender birth, a wagon train, a stampede, and the tenuous rise of the West's first one-armed gunslinger. Haints Stay is a new acid western in the tradition of Rudolph Wurlitzer, Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man: meaning it is brutal, surreal, and possesses an unsettling humor. Colin Winnette is the author of Revelation, Animal Collection, and Fondly?which was listed among Salon's Best Books of 2013. He is an associate editor of PANK Magazine, and conducts a regular interview series for the Believer's "Logger." His writing has appeared on BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, and in the Believer.

Haints Stay

Fondly

Fiction. A daughter disappears in the middle of the night. What happens in the aftermath of this tragedy—after the search is abandoned, after the TV crews move on to cover the latest horrific incident—is the story of COYOTE. There is a marriage and a detective. There is a storm, a talk show host, and a roasted boar. People are murdered and things are hidden. Coyotes skulk in the woods, a man stands by the fence, and a tale emerges within this familiar landscape of the violent unknown.

Coyote

Plongez dans l’essence même de l’Amérique profonde et violente, celle des âmes perdues. Brooke et Sugar se disent frères et sont chasseurs de primes. Partout où ils passent, ils sèment effroi et désolation. Contraints de quitter la ville après une tuerie particulièrement violente, ils se réfugient dans les bois. Un matin, à leur réveil, ils trouvent à leurs côtés un mystérieux garçon amnésique. Ils l’appellent Bird et en font leur mascotte. Lors d’une expédition punitive dans un village, les deux frères sont capturés par la police locale et mis en prison. Brooke parvient à s’enfuir, mais Sugar, sorte de bête humaine, sale et effrayante, reste derrière les barreaux. Là où naissent les ombres est un western acide et désespéré auquel seuls une veuve, un orphelin et un nourrisson apportent une touche d’humanité.

Là où naissent les ombres

An Army Arrives as We Always Thought it Would

Un nouvel élève vient d’arriver à l’orphelinat, un établissement isolé aux mœurs aussi inquiétantes qu’inhabituelles. Il entend des murmures effrayants la nuit, et ses camarades se révèlent violents et hostiles. Quant au directeur, il lui souffle des messages cryptiques et accusateurs. Seul et rejeté par ses pairs, le nouveau tente de survivre à l’intérieur de cette société inhospitalière. Une rumeur court parmi les pensionnaires, selon laquelle un fantôme hanterait les lieux et tuerait une personne par an. Tous les ans, les garçons se réunissent, sous l’impulsion de quelques anciens, pour démasquer celui d’entre eux qu’ils pensent être le fantôme... et l’éliminer! Simple mascarade potache ou mise en scène sordide pour justifier les meurtres rituels? Cette année, le prétendu fantôme a été clairement désigné : c’est le petit nouveau. Pour une simple et bonne raison, on ne l’a jamais vu saigner, et les guêpes, très nombreuses dans cette bâtisse, ne le piquent pas. La chasse aux sorcières peut commencer.

Le Rôle de la guêpe

Animal Collection

Jeremy Whitley

Samuel Teer

Adam Kullberg

Dan Connor

Hugo Hanriot

Kris Barz

R. Alan Brooks

Comic book about diverse characters and events from Colorado History.

Colorful History #2

Quelque part au coeur de l'Amérique, dans une bicoque isolée au fond des bois. Des parents couchent leur fillette de trois ans, comme tous les soirs. Le lendemain matin, ils trouvent un lit vide. La petite a disparu sans laisser de traces. La mère raconte les jours qui ont suivi : les plateaux télé sur lesquels ils se rendent, avec son mari, pour crier leur désespoir, l'enquête des policiers, puis le silence, l'oubli. Mais la mère dit-elle toute la vérité ? Maniant la plume comme un Poe des temps modernes, Colin Winnette nous laisse entrevoir les divagations d'un esprit détraqué, d'autant plus angoissantes que cette mère est aveugle à sa propre folie. Coyote est un conte sur la noirceur et la folie des hommes, un roman profondément marquant, difficile à lâcher et encore plus à oublier. Un conte noir et cruel, made in America.

Collected edition of all Colorful History stories. Colorful History is a comic book about diverse characters and events from Colorado History.

Colorful History Collected Edition

A daughter disappears in the middle of the night. What happens in the aftermath of this tragedy-after the search is abandoned, after the TV crews move on to cover the latest horrific incident-is the story of Coyote. There is a marriage and a detective. There is a storm, a talk show host, and a roasted boar. People are murdered and things are hidden. Coyotes skulk in the woods, a man stands by the fence, and a tale emerges within this familiar landscape of the violent unknown.

A Dark Psychological Novella

Revelation , Colin Winnette's debut novel, is a startlingly simple, fresh and audacious retelling of the famous biblical apocalypse tale. Winnette's Revelation is, on the one hand, a very everyday and modern story, in which desperate characters wander and slip from one year to the next, but behind what would otherwise be a mundane detail lies an architecture of the supernatural-a father carries his son to his grandfather's retirement community, but does so across a parking lot consumed in a plague of locusts, two childhood friends construct a fort from the hull of an enormous ship abandoned by the oceans as they recede, a body falls from the sky as a warning, but only demolishes the deck of a character's lakeside home. A Finalist for the 1913 Press First Book Award, Winnette has stirred up notice from all corners for his innovative and striking stories, as well as his various narrative experiments of larger size. However, Revelation is more than just a stylistic exercise, it's a powerful emotional document.

Colin Winnette

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