LOVE/AGGRESSION
Best friends Lily and Zoe fight, separate, reunite, and repeat, each time deepening the belief that the other is the source of their problems. Once Lily, a struggling tattoo apprentice, is exiled from their shared house, she bounces from an artist’s fixer-upper, to a cult leader with a harem of subs, to a house shared with the goddess of transfemininity. Meanwhile, rising movie star Zoe becomes more cutthroat by the day in her relentless quest for fame. If Lily can’t give up her desire for control, if Zoe can’t lay aside her cruelty and ego, they’ll never escape their intolerable places in the world. Traversing art, domination, sex, and shape-shifting houses, Love/Aggression is a novel about the indignity of depending on other people, and the terrible cost of trying not to.

The Election in Babylon
Four people try to make their way through the events preceding the yearly Vote, where the people of the city put anything up to a vote. Who is married to whom, what building plans are safe, whether smoking is healthy or the wind is real, all of it is up for a vote.

Dating After the Death of God
Valerie steps off the bus and sees God die and collapse into the bay, and then has to go on the date she had scheduled, all while enduring the fact that no one else seems to care about God’s death.

My Beautiful Father
A trans woman comes out to her hyper-competitive father, who decides to prove he’s the better man by beating her at femininity.

A Shrimp’s Eyes, a Full Ocean
A man goes to Santa Cruz to paint and finds himself psychologically dominated by the size of the ocean and the expression on the face of a cartoon shrimp.

An Afternoon Wedding
A surreal wedding that begins with the groom chained to the ground with a mahogany bit in his mouth, to protect the guests from his ravenous desire for his bride.

Through the Impossible Door
A man keeps bothering a woman who’s just trying to get through the day at a bookstore, and insists that the two of them were once trapped in a magical world together, but she lost her memory.

Thin, Verdant Hills
A waitress has just been transferred to Tuscany’s first Olive Garden, a great stepping stone in her dream to become the general manager for one of the restaurant’s locations. But clues pile up, as she finds that this perfect recreation of Tuscany isn’t in Italy at all.

Endless Violence at APlusAtHomeDialysis.com
A minivan bearing a decal with URL “APlusAtHomeDialysis.com” speeds down the highway, in its third deadly car chase within the last week. At the A-Plus At-Home Dialysis office, Sami watches grimly while her co-workers, who incorrectly believe she was behind the marketing campaign that produced the decal, blame her for the bad press.

Lisztomania
A woman attends a concert of the pianist Franz Liszt, and experiences ecstasy and the vision of a symbol that compels her toward his future concert in London, along with all the other women who attended.

Aspirational Craniometry
Austin believes that by altering his skull shape, he can change his destiny. Measuring carefully, he squeezes his head in a vice, but finds that his luck afterwards isn’t what he expected.

In the Shape of the Emperor
After going to great lengths to survive being the emperor’s harem body double— so the concubines can stay in practice— a cautious man throws his life into danger so he can experience sex more fully.

Procreation Myth
A human woman is trying her hardest to capture Zeus’s attention because she wants to have sex with him, but her loud willingness is making Zeus uneasy.