Our world is filled with triangles. Structural triangles. Love triangles. That curiously understated musical instrument. Also, there are triangles of destruction, those which lock their points in a dangerous unity. Such is the triangle formed by the men of Boyd Street, nestled in the idyllic Appalachian mountains. Daniel Black is sick, out of work, and desperate. Malcolm Deal faces old age and its burdens, and an all-consuming need. Marky Joiner courts a deadly obsession wi...

In this collection: 19 short stories of a literary bent.Variety defines these stories. From dark to light, humorous to dead serious, experimental to traditional, flash-length to novelette, these 19 selections from author A.A. Garrison fulfill a mixed spectrum of tastes and styles. No two are alike, and surprises abound.Included in Accidental Literature:A drug addict’s quirky pursuits (“Tomorrow”)A beautiful young murderer asks, “Is anyone in...

In this collection of 14 speculative short stories, author A.A. Garrison takes us to Ford, North Carolina, a sleepy little mountain town named after a Civil War deserter. Though out of the way, the town seems to attract an immoderate share of the fantastic and the macabre. Amongst Ford’s citizens are: Blake (“The Fifty”), who purchases revenge with a fifty-dollar bill Candy Patrice (“Cloyed”), a young woman who adopts a most unorthodox diet-plan

Randy's buddy Charlie wasn't coming back from the war. As Charlie had lay dying, he asked Randy to check on his mom as soon as Randy got home. Now Randy's back from the gulf, and has to make good on his promise. Billy, Charlie's mom, needed something; but what could Randy give her, when he had so many burdens of his own? Perhaps the answer was not in what he could give her, but in what they could give each other. (M/F)

Cross Ghost in the Shell with Alice in Wonderland, and you’ll come to appreciate Hildy’s situation. What is the mysterious stone column? Where did it come from? And why did she have to find it? These are the questions which confront Ms. Hildy Turner, small-town dog groomer and the stone-column doohickey's unfortunate inheritor. There are no answers, but she knows this: pressing the column's end opens a doorway to another world, which she and her best frie...

“Laughter is a form of redemption.”This is the credo of author A.A. Garrison, applied liberally to these stories in A Conspiracy of HA! Under it, anything goes.Earwax-loving aliens. Eyeball-chewing pets. Instructions on killing your zombified clone. Hypnotized boxers. How to get a free lunch using only creamer and a fork. Stephen King doing battle with a werewolf editor. Bridge-jumping, everyone’s doing it!See it all and more in this diverse collection of 2...

Sometimes the best fiction defies all labels. That’s why these stories are called, simply, “tales of the imagination.” In this collection of 15 diverse selections from author A.A. Garrison, the reader is introduced to a broad expanse of literary territory, ranging from sci-fi to crime to post-apocalyptic ruminations, including some outright weirdness and a no-apologies zombie romp. Included in this slideshow of imagination: One man’s disgusting, but lucrativ...

The woman was a quick, whimsical movement from the corner of his eye, and he was helpless not to look. And look. Stan, a failed writer who'd lucked out on an editing job, soon finds his home life turned into something from Amsterdam's Red Light district: his luscious neighbor has begun performing obscene and tantalizing acts, visible through her bedroom window. Stan has a front-row seat. Unfortunately, like most things too good to be true, it is. (M/F)

Pemberton? Yeah, I been there. Take a right at the light, and you’ll see the sign. There’s not much to it, I’m afraid. Still, they got a right nice hospital, darned if I know why. It rains there, I hear.Me? I don’t go down there, if I can help it.You hear things about Pemberton, if you reckon. My cousin, Annie, she popped a flat coming down that valley last year, and, well ... I shouldn’t say no more about that, with her still in the psych ward.You know they never d...

Weird is a sad clown in church. Weirder, that the congregation is all clowns. Weird: you’re a sad clown, too, and you think you like it. That says it all. In Weird, Weirder & WEIRD, descend into the depths of A.A. Garrison’s particular brand of strange. Begin with the traditional, sci-fi weird (“Suffer,” “RIP, Krokinski”), progress to the hauntingly peculiar (“Faith,” “Chesterfield Drive”), and then end with some full-throttle, no-apologies bizarro (“The Enema Flower: ...

Author A.A. Garrison has a knack for horror, as this collection of stories attests. Not fitting comfortably in the realm of “psychological” or “intelligent” horror, his brand of the macabre falls into a subtler niche, one that might be considered “darkly radiant.” Call it “the shining horrific,” if you must have a label. Included amongst these 23 tales: Danger and ruin from a “free” gift (“The Briefcase”) A fearful father’s poisonous need (“Need”)...