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G. Arthur Brown

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G. Arthur Brown, when not sleeping, writes absurd and irreal fiction, especially in rest rooms. His flash fiction collection I Like Turtles earned a Wonderland nomination for Best Collection of 2014. Governor of the Homeless, his second novella and first horror offering, was released in 2016 by Psychedelic Horror Press. His latest collection, Stories to Make You Puke Your Pants, was released in June of 2022 by Planet Bizarro. ...more

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Kitten

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Return of Evensonian Encounters (Daily Flash #1 2023)


About four on a Friday afternoon, as I was eating my evening Wheaties, there was a loud knock at the door, followed by repeated pressing of my doorbell. I slammed my bowl of cereal down on the coffee table, for in front of the television is where I eat, and grumbled all the way to the door. Whoever was out there didn’t stop holding down the doorbell until I opened the door.

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Published on January 02, 2023 13:03 Tags: absurdist, bizarro, brian-evenson, flash-fiction, surreal
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Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
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Solid work. Buehlman's prose grows on me more and more, and he's always writing just outside of the genre center, in such a way that it's fresh but never alienating to core fantasy readers. The world here is very immersive, drawing from real history ...more
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I guess this book had some cool parts, but overall, it's a lot of the narrator being really oblivious to what is quite obviously going on, and repeating himself A LOT... with ellipses tossed in... at random... seemingly.

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Solid work. Buehlman's prose grows on me more and more, and he's always writing just outside of the genre center, in such a way that it's fresh but never alienating to core fantasy readers. The world here is very immersive, drawing from real history ...more
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Thematically more fun than Conan and the ilk, but also not nearly as well written.
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The original official sequel to Vance's Eyes of the Overworld, until a few years later when Jack went and wrote his own. This is a somewhat fun romp in the Dying Earth setting that starts out strong and then meanders to an anticlimax far from Vancian ...more
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“This is a fucking outrage! No son of mine isn't going to suck my dick! Get out of my sight, you dirty freak. I'll never forgive your mother for stepping into a cloud of CHEMTRAIL when she was pregnant with you! You are getting above your raising, boy! Makes me so angry I could cum in my own son's mouth!”
G. Arthur Brown, Chemtrail Chameleon

“I blame the SJW gatekeepers for killing genre and suppressing M*A*S*H parodies.”
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“Can imaginary cats urinate into the real world?”
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Topics Mentioning This Author

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
Jorge Luis Borges

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
Franz Kafka

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message 1: by Jason

Jason "Once upon a time a guy came home and found his girlfriend screwing a gnome. But it was okay because the guy was also a gnome and he high fived the other gnome and they had a gnome three-way and just kept chanting "gnome, gnome, gnome." It was pretty rad."

Best Gnome story ever.


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