Books tagged: absurdist humor

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The Woman Who Wrote King Lear and other stories    by Louis Phillips
Price: $9.99 USD. 62580 words. Published by Pleasure Boat Studio on August 13, 2009. .

In his 3rd collection of short fiction, Louis Phillips, a widely read author of fiction, poetry, drama, and children s stories, takes us into numerous strange worlds. From the opening story, Errata, which lists dozens of strange mistakes with a previously published story, to the final piece, Lee Harvey Oswald s Can Opener, a reader soon discovers oneself visiting an unpredictable consciousness.
The Eighth Tier    by PD Allen
Price: Free! 15300 words. Published on February 3, 2010. .

And you thought being a deadhead was a lifestyle. Jim Burroughs writes the history of Tier Dwellers living on the eighth tier of a ten tier concert stadium out on the plains in Kansas. Though banal and pathetic, their story is full of droll humor and existential insights.
The Program    by JC Andrijeski
Price: $0.99 USD. 13350 words. Published by White Sun Press  on July 12, 2010. .

A successful, beige-wearing business woman is minding her own business, blending in, not making waves. But after hundreds of identical business motivation conventions, each with their own system for getting ahead, maximizing your potential, executing success, demonstrating excellence…she meets someone who offers to show her the evil pattern behind it all. Sort of.
Migrations, Volume I : Don't Forget to Breathe    by Ashim Shanker
Price: Free! 97110 words. Published on September 23, 2010. .

"...he could imagine the Dust spiraling in corners, plotting en masse an elaborate offensive upon those who sought seclusion from the outside Universe. The Dust: it was older than Time, bound by its allegiance to the Tangible—to the very Physical Substance of creation— to make pointed attacks fueled by conspiracy upon its bitter rival, the amorphously-composed Intangible Will.." (p.202)
The Devil's Cup (Short Story)    by Jesse Gordon
Price: Free! 3370 words. Published on June 11, 2011. .

Donald Roeser is a staunch pessimist who suspects that today's pop culture society is going to hell in a hand basket. One day he realizes his fears aren't completely unfounded when he spots the Devil working a second job at a local coffee shop that's serving more than just espresso...
The Land of OCKT and the Adventures of Peeje, the Kat Herder    by M. O. Muriel and J. L. Muriel
Price: $2.99 USD. 47070 words. Published on November 12, 2011. .

In the majickal Land of OCKT, weazels are the only peoples who are clever and fast enough to herd katz. But Peeje, the wily and white, gets into all kinds of trouble when he takes his entire mischievous, flame-hawking kat herd with him on the road to track down a missing baby princess. Co-authored by J. L. Muriel. With illustrations by award-winning author/illustrator, M. O. Muriel.
Larry The Alien Book Two    by John McDonnell
Price: $2.99 USD. 6560 words. Published on January 22, 2012. .

Book Two of the wacky adventures of Larry The Alien, who came to Earth to conquer it but ended up tending bar for a guy named Murphy. Larry gets anxiety attacks and changes into things like a six foot tall pink rabbit, a walrus, and a chimpanzee. He lives with a dysfunctional family and has many funny adventures with them.
Grantbo’s Misadventures    by Grantbo 
Price: $2.99 USD. 38980 words. Published on January 29, 2012. .

As we go through life things happen to us sometimes good, sometimes not so good. In Grantbo’s life bad things seem to happen all the time; incredible things, disastrous things. Here are 40 hilarious stories from the life of Grantbo. He takes the mundane and turns it into something spectacular! 39,000 words