Nick Antosca

The Quiet Boy

In the morning, Bram finds the bones of a murdered child. At noon, the murdered child begs for his help. And by nightfall, they have killed a man together and set off into the afterlife, where nothing is what it was, and death is only the beginning of punishment. An eerie story about the nature of death and the self, Midnight Picnic inhabits an American landscape made strange and unfamiliar. From the author of the cult novel Fires, Midnight Picnic is a haunting and disturbing experience.

Midnight Picnic

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds-with obese people. Nina Gilten works in the fashion industry. She retouches images for Redbook, Teen Vogue, Chic, Marie Claire, and Nylon. Her work involves shaving off hipbones, masking moles, and giving more sheen to the lusterless skin of supermodels. In other words, she makes people beautiful. But when a vengeful houseguest forwards Nina's private correspondence with her boss to popular feminist blog Jezebel, Nina finds herself jobless and ostracized. Then rabid obese people start rampaging on the streets of New York. Thrown together with her ex-boyfriend Chris and his fiance, the gorgeous Molly Sweet, Ferdinand (a male model with a fat fetish), Chantal (also a model), and Dora (the vengeful houseguest who destroyed her career), Nina must fend for her life in a world where the people she hates most are now trying to eat her. Lazy Fascist Press is proud to present The Obese, a bloody satire about body image and America's obesity epidemic, written by Shirley Jackson Award-winner Nick Antosca. Also featuring the bonus story "Predator Bait."

The Obese

Fiction. Nick Antosca's THE GIRLFRIEND GAME is a tumble through the looking glass into a vortex of violence and desire. The 12 stories in the newest collection by the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author are brutal, urgent and unforgettable. In "Predator Bait," a decoy in a sex sting news show questions her job and the man who shares her bed. An undependable son watches his mother become a creature he hardly recognizes in "Amphibian." A young man plots the death of his girlfriend's killer in "Winter Was Hard." Antosca crafts surreal doomsday scenarios and otherworldly transformations alongside painfully articulate depictions of sexuality and animal impulse. The stories in THE GIRLFRIEND GAME are mesmerizing, leaving a haunting afterglow long after you close the book.

Stories

The Girlfriend Game

Rat Beast

Caught between the ambition and alienation of life at an Ivy League school, Jon Danfield must face a revelation about his past. His journey will take him from the halls of privilege into the heart of the forest fire threatening his childhood home. On deserted streets lined with perfect houses, Danfield must confront an American dream corroded by unspeakable acts of cruelty.

Fires

In a private prison somewhere in Manhattan, an executioner carries out his duties without question. But when he betrays his employer and ends up a prisoner himself, he learns the prison's real purpose - and the true identities of his fellow inmates. Now he has to find a way to escape before he loses his grasp on sanity.

The Hangman's Ritual

Cameron Pierce

Stephen Graham Jones

The premier magazine of the bizarro genre. Issue Five features the novella "The Obese" by Nick Antosca, short fiction by Stephen Graham Jones, Alan M. Clark, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Sam Pink, Bradley Sands, Andersen Prunty, R.J. Sevin, J. David Osborne, and Kirsten Alene, nonfiction articles by Patrick Wensink, Douglas Lain, and Caris O'Malley, a spotlight on author Andrew Goldfarb, comics, reviews, and more!

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