GENERAL LIT

This is Volume 7 of Scout Book's new Good Inks series of great American shorts. Learn More

You Can Finish This Later is an illustrated chapbook of short fiction.Mike Parish penned the stories and Dan Tarnowski drew the drawings. Learn More

Some of the finest nightmarish comic despair. Learn More

The quintessential short fiction of its time, The Plastic Factory's minimalist surface sits atop a terse inventory of the inner costs of living outside the professional managerial bullet train, looking through the display windows at the swatch-life, emerging with the antithesis of the yuppie-preppy sensibility. Learn More

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. Learn More

It was nearly thirty years ago, in the winter of 1984 in Paris. We had flown in from Chicago to see my paternal grandparents, Opa Bergen, after whom I was named, and Mémé Francoise. Learn More

"... I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet." Learn More

This is Volume 3 of Scout Book's new Good Inks series of great American shorts. Learn More

You are returning the milk to the refrigerator when your head begins to swim. Red shapes like semi-transparent scarves flare open in your vision, brimming over with light before they dwindle away. For a moment you think you are going to collapse. You put your hand on the counter to steady yourself. Your heart ticks down the seconds like a bomb. Then the sensation passes, and it is an ordinary day again. Learn More