Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Humorous - Black Humor

Professed is a novel filled with the struggles and rivalries and oddities and many weirdnesses American higher education--favor-dodging, ex-girlfriend avoiding, grade-dreading, plagiarist-busting, dissertation-reading, office-mate annoying, litter-box spilling, book-stealing, unprofessional forbidden lusting, unprofessional forbidden lusting-fulfilling, lost cat-chasing, wrist-breaking, inopportune body-betraying, boring boyfriend-dumping planning, dead professor missing, committee-meeting texting, student misfiling, classroom failing, hidden Confederate-history uncovering, book-writing,...

Suckle is a muti-layered literary novel that grapples with diverse themes, both familiar and not-so-familiar: relationships, healing, modern-day miracles, and man-milk, to name a few. At the heart of Suckle is the story of security guard Benny Salmon (a kind of Forrest Gump with man-boobs), as written in his own words. Benny tells of his involvement with Rosie, a prostitute who rather inexplicably causes him to lactate, and a half-blind albino reverend, who, learning of Benny's gift and its blessed applications, invites the security guard to join his traveling revival show, healing the...

What a witty look at Continuing Care Retirement Communities It laughs at their schizophrenic business model. The faster you die the more money they make, yet they really do try to keep you alive Can such Communities survive if, like purple jelly fish and eight other organisms, humans learn to live forever. If we do, will we jump off into outer space like lemmings into the sea? This amalgam of the profound and absurd makes an electric read.

Meet Peter and Mary Faust: misfit siblings sharing an attic apartment and giving every appearance of being typical 20-somethings, wishing to pay rent, make friends, and lead quiet lives. What makes these seemingly simple tasks somewhat less simple is that Peter and Mary are not technically alive.

Somewhere in their semi-distant past, they, like Dr. Faust before them, traded their eternity in good standing with the Heavenly Highest to become immortal. They are vampires trying to survive in the modern world. And they hate it. Turning vampire did not simplify their...

Doesn't it seem as if someone issues a new apocalypse prediction every week? Y2K? The Mayan apocalypse? The Rapture? Doesn't it seem endless? As opposed to the traditional trend of post-apocalyptic literature, Apocalypse All the Time is post-post-apocalypticism.

Marshall is sick of the apocalypse happening on a weekly (if not daily) basis. Life is constantly in peril, continually disrupted, but nothing significant ever happens. The emergency is always handled. Always. Marshall wants out; he wants it all to stop...one way or another. Even if he...