Arugula: and other stories

by Jon Wesick

In these pages werewolves transform into Newfoundland dogs, fast-food stands fight turf wars, Marxist Angolans put one over on Cuban advisors, Kurt Vonnegut leads a struggling writer through hell in a parody of Dante’s Divine Comedy, a private detective doubles and a professional organizer, the CIA hosts a take-your-child-to-work day in the Washington Monument, a superhero battles the economic problems plaguing the middle class, and North Koreans remake an American comedy show.

236 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 10, 2023

About the author

Host of the Gelato Poetry Series, instigator of the San Diego Poetry Un-Slam, and an editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual, Jon Wesick has published hundreds of poems and short stories in journals such as The Atlanta Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Pearl, Slipstream, and Tales of the Talisman.