A man who worries he may not be capable of spurring his mermaid wife to conceive. A class of birds conflicted in their relationship with their kindred feathered overlords. A woman whose breasts suddenly abandon her. A man who confuses his wife with his girlfriend, when the two are delivered by the shipping company on the same day. A chicken who, even after partaking of the free snacks at the local bar, proves he is still no good at holding his alcohol. These and other bizarre stories comprise this collection of forty-two curious adventures by Ken Poyner.

A surreal and speculative poetry detailing the edges of social interactions; a poetry mapping the social relationships calmly executed around madness. A man who admires the wolf at his door. A daughter who is increasingly unmanageable as she transforms into a mule. A woman who cannot stop growing to match the gargantuan intruder in her yard. A town brings its children to a dark master to learn to dance. Broken characters dealing with the unreality of their lives, interacting with each other in an unpredictable social landscape where the normal laws of civics, biology, and physics become...

2017 Elgin award nominee. Poetry exploring the development of sentience within robots, describing the thoughts and feelings and developing social understanding of the machines that share our lives.

A collection of fantastical mini-fictions. A man who encounters mammoth rustlers. Houses that begin to move on their own, forcing the inhabitants to finally introduce themselves to their neighbors. Giant chickens that are hunted for processing in the chicken sandwich industry. A man who discovers a financially beneficial black hole on his farm. A boy who sees his future in an abandoned house. Red Riding Hood retold, as a fatal love story. A man forcefully introduced to the truth of mermaids. Humor, irony, mythical realism, surrealism, soft science fiction.