Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions

by M. Lopes da Silva

A non-binary model discovers that an artist is attempting to paint their soul. Glitter-vomiting deer take over the streets of Los Angeles. A trans man drives out to the desert to investigate rumors of a cult using crude oil as a drug. Heartbreaking, sexy, and grotesque, these stories are timely and insistent reminders that even though we might all be buried in capitalist garbage, we are not garbage, and never were.Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions is a strange and gnarly entry into the canon of 21st-century queer horror.Come, transform with us.

Genres: Short Stories, Horror, Queer, Fiction

204 pages, Paperback

Published March 15, 2024

Reviews

[Lor · Rating 5 out of 5]

each story is full of love, pain, and humour in a way only trans horror can be. It is both cozy and melancholic and absolutely worth your time.

[Books For Decaying Millennials · Rating 5 out of 5]

Notes From a Decaying Millennial:
I received my copy of this book as a member of the WeirdPunk Books 2024 Subscription club.
Moments before typing this review, I discovered that my senile old cat had recently decided to gnaw on my copy of this book. Make of that what you will
This is Not a Paid Review
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Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions by M. Lopes da Silva is the latest offering from Midwest Horror Publisher Weird Punk Books. Within these pages the author has gathered previously publishes stories and poems and presented them to the reader and a concentrated and extremely potent package. Taken as a whole, this collection is woven with interwining currents of Passion and Despair. It's pulsing with Righteous Rage and infused with juices of Passion and True Rebirth. Each of the included pieces moved me in some way. The heart gets clenched, the gut shived with devastating prose. The Horror community is experiencing a True Renaissance of work from the Trans Community. While it is extremely difficult to pluck my favorites from this collection, pieces stand out:
The One Who Whispers ' Hold Me Closer' a truly beautiful work about the Strange and amazing forms love takes, and strength of those not afraid to embrace i.
My Body Became a Labyrinth : By the end of this story I had tears in my eyes. A tale of grieving, wrestling against the expectations assigned and birth, and in the end celebrating the rebirth of ones true and loved self.

[Sofia · Rating 5 out of 5]

How beautifully deadly we all are when we refuse to be boxed and civilized, when we embrace our queerness as nature is: wild and untameable. This collection is at its strongest when it's observing and deconstructing systems that constellate any city.

Infinity Mathing at the Shore is exceptionally sharp. Cuts open the anatomy of fascism with bloody, grinning teeth.

[Mandilyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

These stories kept me glued to the pages until there was no more. The three words, “haunting, sexy, and grotesque,” create the perfect description of this collection.