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Ben Fitts

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in New York, NY, The United States

Website

https://doomgoat666.wixsite.com/benfitts

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Surrealism, Horror, Bizarro

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Ben Fitts is a writer, musician, and zinester from New York City, described by Theaker's Quarterly as having the "...potential to rise as a leading voice in the bizarro subgenre". He is the author of the books My Birth And Other Regrets (NihilismRevised, 2019), Snailbutter (Hybrid Sequence Media, 2021), and The Earth No Longer Exists (Alien Buddha Press, 2024), over fifty published short stories, and is the creator of numerous zines. He currently lives in Brooklyn, where he plays guitar in the indie rock band War Honey, makes noise music under the name Conan The Accountant, and puts too much hot sauce on everything. ...more

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	My Birth and Other Regrets 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Where I Keep My Spoons 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rock N' Roll Horror Zine #2 (The Rock N' Roll Horror Zine, #2) by Ben Fitts (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Matthew Vaughn (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Micah Castle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rock N' Roll Horror Zine, Issue #1 (The Rock N' Roll Horror Zine, #1) by Ben Fitts (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), E.N. Dahl (Contributor), Josh Anderson (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Even Wimps Can Be Alien Overlords it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Earth No Longer Exists it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Snailbutter is back in print and Kindle!

My novella Snailbutter is available again in paperback and Kindle! It's had many homes over the years, with different printings bouncing around from publisher to publisher, so I figured it might just be time to release it myself.

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