Novellas / Short Novels Bundle

Three great novellas / short novels with 20% discount and free shipping!
Includes: David Ohle’s The Death of a Character, Claire Hopple’s Take it Personally, and Seb Doubinsky’s Fragments of a Revolution.

The Death of a Character is cult author David Ohle’s mordant meditation on the trials of the flesh, of bureaucracy, and tenderness. In the company of and old flame, and the neutrodynes Wheaton and Darleen, Moldenke retires to the marshlands, surrounded by snakes, haunted by a mysterious burial mound and harassed by a construction project that might destroy his home. Not only is Ohle’s latest his most emotionally poignant, it is also a work of brilliant satire, threaded with bittersweet observations on mortality.

In Take It Personally, Tori, the lead singer of a local rock band, takes on an amateur private investigator job where she spies on a famous diarist. Are the published diaries authentic or fabricated? As she uncovers the mystery alongside her psychic roommate, her investigation is complicated by their nudist neighbor disappearing, the neighborhood watch morphing into a secret society, and her band getting booked on a national tour. This vulnerable yet absurdly comic novel explores themes of alienation within a community and the pursuit of a job that gives you real feedback.

1969: Revolution in Mexico! Decades later, charismatic guerrilla leader Lorenzo is living in Europe with a young son. Approached by a German revolutionary organization for his account of the conflict, he struggles to recall repressed memories of violence, absurdity, and tragedy. Lorenzo’s past returns in Seb Doubinsky’s kaleidoscopic Fragments of a Revolution. Raging between moments of ecstatic liberation and quixotic disappointments, what emerges is a manifesto for freedom, no matter the price. Doubinsky’s depiction of the intellectual revolutionary in his reveries is immediately authentic. The visionary pride and bitter humor of the outsider and his misfit cadre are part of the iconography of the guerrilla. Just so, the meticulous dreams undone by adrenaline and unforeseen moments of chaos…