In 1942, after hiding to escape the Nazis, our narrator (named, simply, Federman) finds his way to Vichy, France. Unwanted by his relatives, he is forced to spend the remainder of the war as an unpai
The Book of Portraiture is a postmodern epic in writing and images. A desert nomad struggles at the close of the ancient world to inscribe himself into life, and centuries later a Renaissance artist
A dark yet playful collection of short stories that pushes boundaries and blurs the lines between the real and surreal Girl Zoo is an enthralling and sometimes unsettling collection of short sto
A mystery in two voices, Dirtmouth recounts the grisly murder of a young woman on Blackman's Heath, an ancient execution site in the Irish bogs. A pair of archaeologists, the obese and decadent Kraft
Stephen-Paul Martin’s The Ace of Lightning is a series of interconnected stories focused on a turning point in Western history: the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria whi
The nineteen stories in The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman track the splintered trajectory of the title character, tracing a chicken-scratch line of psychosexual development from childhood to old ag
Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize A darkly comical horror lurks beneath the surface of everyday events in Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, a seductively poetic sto
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction PrizeStories that remap the world to reveal hidden places we have always suspected of existing and scenarios that show us glimpses of ourselves
The Aztec Love God is a dark comedy about Tiofilio Duarte's climb to obscurity. Originally, young Tio wanted to perfect the comic role of the Aztec Love God, his ideal persona. Along the way he meets
Alice is a motherless child, born to a motherless child, and raised with neither care nor grace. Her response to this multiple abandonment is a lifelong obsession with her best friend Ingrid, or Thing
In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person.Intimacy follows an unnamed narrator planning his
In this collection of seven short stories, Moira Crone presents fresh writings about women, love, and strength. "Kudzu" is a tale of a girl's childhood in the stranglehold of American life. "The Brook
Winner of FC2’s Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction PrizeStories that explore the potent and captivating boundaries between the real and the imaginary Aurelie Sheehan’s Once in
Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America’s MidwestThe Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvel
If art imitated capitalism, it would look like Borges' Travel Hemingway's Garage. In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe and the Americas, photographing products and business
Part murder mystery, part declaration of independence, The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto takes Native American writing where it has never gone before - into a future where the Dakotas are Indian Territor
Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 collects twenty-three experimental prose works published by Fiction Collective Two during the last decade. Together they contest the false present of the Bush years, contin
