City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers and game show hosts. Set in Portland, Oregon, these thirty stories blend imagination, literary writing, and pop culture into a cohesive weirdness that honors the city’s personality, its bookstores and bridges and solo volcano, as well as the tradition of sci-fi pulp magazines. Including such authors as Rene Denfeld, Justin Hocking, Leni Zumas, and Kevin Sampsell, editor Gigi Little has curated a collection that is quirky, chilling, often profound—and always perfectly weird.

City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers and game show hosts. Set in Portland, Oregon, these thirty stories blend imagination, literary writing, and pop culture into a cohesive weirdness that honors the city’s personality, its bookstores and bridges and solo volcano, as well as the tradition of sci-fi pulp magazines. Including such authors as Rene Denfeld, Justin Hocking, Leni Zumas, and Kevin Sampsell, editor Gigi Little has curated a collection that is quirky, chilling, often profound—and always perfectly weird.

"THE MOST SURPRISING BOOK OF THE YEAR." —ROBIN SLOANA cozy noir for fans of Knives Out!, time loops, and old-time whodunits. Private eye One the Gun and his right-hand dame Two the True Blue are on the trail of the killer of Five the No Longer Alive. But as the numbers and the clues stack up, One the Gun realizes that today is exactly like yesterday—in fact maybe actually is yesterday—and he’s pretty sure that at the end of yesterday he was shot to death. It’s a dilly of a pickle as time continues to loop back on itself, one murder case becomes two, and the gumshoe races against the clock to smoke out his own killer—before that killer can stop his clock for keeps. Gigi Little’s noir-soaked and delightfully surreal debut pays homage to the radio classics of the forties and fifties while investigating themes of greed, sexism, and the consequences of unchecked power.

THE MOST SURPRISING BOOK OF THE YEAR.ROBIN SLOANA cozy noir for fans of Knives Out!, time loops, and old-time whodunits.Private eye One the Gun and his right-hand dame Two the True Blue are on the trail of the killer of Five the No Longer Alive. But as the numbers and the clues stack up, One the Gun realizes that today is exactly like yesterdayin fact maybe actually is yesterdayand hes pretty sure that at the end of yesterday he was shot to death. Its a dilly of a pickle as time continues to loop back on itself, one murder case becomes two, and the gumshoe races against the clock to smoke out his own killerbefore that killer can stop his clock for keeps. Gigi Littles noir-soaked and delightfully surreal debut pays homage to the radio classics of the forties and fifties while investigating themes of greed, sexism, and the consequences of unchecked power.

Story Rich Art is what happens when thirteen writers are asked to translate art into story.Writing and art have collided in an eclectic collection featuring speculative and dark short stories, flash fiction, and poems exploring Steve Graziani's artwork.A tale of a monster hunting summer settles alongside a woman on Death's door. There is fear, romance, longing, loss. Time slips, space is all there is left, and our pasts call for us.By the last page, you'll have visited many worlds, been many people, traveled through time, cried and laughed.Twenty-two stories and twenty-four etchings await you.*Stories by Adam Bolivar, Angela Yuriko Smith, Angelique O'Rourke, David Barker, Elle Mitchell, Gigi Little, G.R. Theron, Jacque Day Pallone, Kiyomi Appleton Gaines, Sarah Walker, Simone Cooper, Steve Graziani, Summer Olsson | Edited by Elle Mitchell & Sarah Walker

City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers and game show hosts. Set in Portland, Oregon, these thirty stories blend imagination, literary writing, and pop culture into a cohesive weirdness that honors the city’s personality, its bookstores and bridges and solo volcano, as well as the tradition of sci-fi pulp magazines. Including such authors as Rene Denfeld, Justin Hocking, Leni Zumas, and Kevin Sampsell, editor Gigi Little has curated a collection that is quirky, chilling, often profound—and always perfectly weird.

City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers and game show hosts. Set in Portland, Oregon, these thirty stories blend imagination, literary writing, and pop culture into a cohesive weirdness that honors the city’s personality, its bookstores and bridges and solo volcano, as well as the tradition of sci-fi pulp magazines. Including such authors as Rene Denfeld, Justin Hocking, Leni Zumas, and Kevin Sampsell, editor Gigi Little has curated a collection that is quirky, chilling, often profound—and always perfectly weird.

"THE MOST SURPRISING BOOK OF THE YEAR." —ROBIN SLOANA cozy noir for fans of Knives Out!, time loops, and old-time whodunits. Private eye One the Gun and his right-hand dame Two the True Blue are on the trail of the killer of Five the No Longer Alive. But as the numbers and the clues stack up, One the Gun realizes that today is exactly like yesterday—in fact maybe actually is yesterday—and he’s pretty sure that at the end of yesterday he was shot to death. It’s a dilly of a pickle as time continues to loop back on itself, one murder case becomes two, and the gumshoe races against the clock to smoke out his own killer—before that killer can stop his clock for keeps. Gigi Little’s noir-soaked and delightfully surreal debut pays homage to the radio classics of the forties and fifties while investigating themes of greed, sexism, and the consequences of unchecked power.

THE MOST SURPRISING BOOK OF THE YEAR.ROBIN SLOANA cozy noir for fans of Knives Out!, time loops, and old-time whodunits.Private eye One the Gun and his right-hand dame Two the True Blue are on the trail of the killer of Five the No Longer Alive. But as the numbers and the clues stack up, One the Gun realizes that today is exactly like yesterdayin fact maybe actually is yesterdayand hes pretty sure that at the end of yesterday he was shot to death. Its a dilly of a pickle as time continues to loop back on itself, one murder case becomes two, and the gumshoe races against the clock to smoke out his own killerbefore that killer can stop his clock for keeps. Gigi Littles noir-soaked and delightfully surreal debut pays homage to the radio classics of the forties and fifties while investigating themes of greed, sexism, and the consequences of unchecked power.

Story Rich Art is what happens when thirteen writers are asked to translate art into story.Writing and art have collided in an eclectic collection featuring speculative and dark short stories, flash fiction, and poems exploring Steve Graziani's artwork.A tale of a monster hunting summer settles alongside a woman on Death's door. There is fear, romance, longing, loss. Time slips, space is all there is left, and our pasts call for us.By the last page, you'll have visited many worlds, been many people, traveled through time, cried and laughed.Twenty-two stories and twenty-four etchings await you.*Stories by Adam Bolivar, Angela Yuriko Smith, Angelique O'Rourke, David Barker, Elle Mitchell, Gigi Little, G.R. Theron, Jacque Day Pallone, Kiyomi Appleton Gaines, Sarah Walker, Simone Cooper, Steve Graziani, Summer Olsson | Edited by Elle Mitchell & Sarah Walker