Sam Pink

You see him at the liquor store. You see him at the bus stop, tryingto look at you without being seen. Who is he?He is a person. In this debut novel, a person walks around Chicagocontemplating the possibility of starving to death on purpose. He hassex with his neighbor. He goes out to look for a job but just buyslittle plastic dogs from homeless people instead.Who is the person? The person is you. The person is me. The person issitting in his room shooting an empty pellet gun at his face, feelingthe slow exhaustion of a Co2 cartridge. The person sits in a bathtubreading his roommate's yearbook. He wants to create a contractmandating worldwide friendship.Person invents new and splendid ways of not getting along. You willread this book and remember why you mainly read books that have sex inthem. You will become . . . a person.

Person

"Pink is a keen observer of the culture of minimum-wage jobs and low-rent studio apartments that is the reality of life for all those who don't find a cog space in today's hyper-capitalist economy." --The Guardian It was maybe the first job I'd ever had where people were happy to see me. An odd feeling indeed, to wield this kind of power. To be this kind of force. As near to magical as any mortal should stride. A technician of unspeakable joy. Braving the neon mountains to return with blue raspberry concentrate. Tearing out sundae cone fangs from the mouths of snow beasts. And so on. Cone dealer, sunshine stealer, alleyway counselor, lunch lady to the homeless, friend to the dead, maker of sandwiches. Metal wrangler. Stag among stags. And so it goes--another journey through time spent punched in. A life's work of working for a living. Blood, death, and violence. Dirty dishes, dead roaches, and sparkler-lit nights. Nights ahead and no real fate. So open your mouths because the forecast calls for sprinkles. Eleven delights, scooped and served. Let it melt down your hand. Let the sun burn your face. It's the ice cream man, and other stories.

The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories

"Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus." - Joe Meno

Rontel

The Holy Bible of Bad Feelings returns! Longtime bipolar idiot Sam Pink brings you right back to the beginning with this remastered edition of his first underground hit. Find out why it would be great to get accidentally killed by a bus. Find out how to perform hardcore sex and never have any fun. Find out why it would be better if your mom was a Ugandan hooker. And find out how to fill your mouth with confetti before blowing your own head off. Because a dead horse isn't ever fully beaten. Because when you get to Hell there will be a seat saved for you. Because you can't afford too many hellos. Because every time you come home, you stand in the door way and think, "It's time for a monster to eat me now." And then a monster eats you! Be brave enough to read this book. Be brave enough to clone yourself then kill the clone and eat it.

I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It

you have just been killed by a thousand tiny cuts. 99 to be exact. bleeding out to the backdrop of this new cartoon. a woodchuck in a tiny witch hat laughs at you, as you lay down, hands over your chest and think, 'perfect.' and a red light atop a powerline blinks in the distance to remind that there is no end, only one long try, deflate at your own pace. don't fight the freefall. 99 poems to cure whatever's wrong with you or create the problems you need. and yes, you need. im your fucking dad, honey. admit it, or we'll never get out of this alive.

99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong with You Or Create the Problem's You Need

Two Novellas

The Garbage Times/White Ibis

You Hear Ambulance Sounds And Think They Are For You

Oh man, it just had to happen. Someone had to be a bagger at a grocery store and fantasize about hitting children in the head with wine bottles. Someone had to fear a puddle floating at him from across the street. Someone had to celebrate beating up a pregnant woman. Someone just HAD to be a nanny, and stare at giant motorized spiders. Jeez oh man! Don't ask why a teenager in a Chicago Bulls overcoat is feeding baby rabbits to a toad. Don't ask why someone had to run around the backyard with a bedsheet cape after drinking moonshine. And don't ask why jumping down stairs feels like success. Just sit back, drink a piss-infused Bloody Mary, and learn to hurt others.

Hurt Others

Why are three violent policemen in search of The Greatest Dad in theWorld? More importantly, why are two young men at a fast foodrestaurant talking about freezing bees? And good god, why are theretwo young ladies in the backyard during a Halloween party, shavingeach others' legs with a piece of a broken jaw bone?What will become of the old woman who slits her young boyfriend'sthroat? And why does she give him a calculator for his birthday?Will anyone survive?Where will you be when the Self-Esteem Holocaust comes home?

The Self-Esteem Holocaust Comes Home

No One Can Do Anything Worse to You Than You Can

"The thought of calling off work is like the thought of suicide, just nice to think about." In The No Hellos Diet, Sam Pink brings you straight into a world you've never been to before: your own life. Find yourself working at a department store where everyone must wear red and khaki clothing. Find yourself throwing out garbage for fifty cents more than minimum wage. Find yourself worried about getting your arm ripped off by the box compactor. Find yourself talking about licking assholes with your co-worker. Find yourself driving away into a video game sunset with an Amish man. The No Hellos Diet reminds you about the time you burnt down your future ex girlfriend's trampoline. It reminds you about the couple of times you smoked crack. And the time you meditated on the most important question of all: Can a cat be killed with a single punch? Find yourself stunned by the prose of a modern novel-master as he follows the course of your life for an entire year.

The No Hellos Diet

From the author of 'person' and 'the ice cream man and other stories.' Follow our narrator as he attempts to make it to the end of a journey most magical. Get ready to laugh and have nice times!

I noticed it was beginning to get dark. And for a couple seconds, it was scary-like that meant the world was breaking, or expired, or bruised, or something worse. It was really scary for a couple seconds but then I calmed down. Up above, the moonlit clouds looked rippled, like the ribcage of some giant thing digesting me. And I wondered if the direction I was going went down into the digestive system or up out of it. Wondered what difference it made. There was a bug hovering over a small pool of ice cream on the sidewalk. Like a firefly, but it wasn't a firefly. And I could've stepped on it and killed it. But I didn't. Be thankful, little bug. For in my world, you are just a little bug.

Witch Piss

Gerald McClellan Versus Nigel Benn

Sam Pink has established himself as one of the most original, uncompromising writers of the twenty-first century. Published for the first time in hardcover, "The Collected Suicide Notes of Sam Pink" collects all of Sam Pink's poetry in a single volume. Read it now and accept yourself as one of the doomed.

The Collected Suicide Notes of Sam Pink

Poems

My Mind Is Not a Billboard

Bernhard Goetz

"Not having hope is not the same as being hopeless." "Frowns Need Friends Too" is the "Straight Outta Compton" of poetry collections. Let it in and watch it burn down the house of your mind. Celebrate as your face melts off and you become more terrible than you ever thought possible. Until the day of your miserable death, you will never forget about Sam Pink."

Frowns Need Friends Too

GERALD MCCLELLAN VERSUS NIGEL BENN

Kevin Brown

Christopher Higgs

Miah Arnold

Sabra Embury

Katherine M. Guttman

Ian Grody

Austin Havican

Donora Hillard

Bill Huchison

Jamie Iredell

Sean Lovelace

Joseph Riippi

NANO Fiction (print ISSN 1935-844X; digital ISSN 2160-939X) is non-profit literary journal that publishes flash fiction—a form of short story also known as micro fiction, micro narrative, micro-story, microrrelatos, postcard fiction, the short short, the short short story, kürzestgeschichten, and sudden fiction—of 300 words or fewer. Featuring twenty to thirty authors in each issue, NANO Fiction has roots that draw from Aesop’s Fables and Zen Koans. Notable practitioners of this prose form include Lydia Davis, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Naguib Mahfouz, and Linor Goralik, among others. This issue features works by: Miah Arnold, Kevin Brown, Sabra Embury, Katherine M. Guttman, Ian Grody, Austin Havican, Christopher Higgs, Donora Hillard, J.R. Hundemer, Bill Hutchison, Jamie Iredell, Michael, Jauchen, Joshua Jennings, Paul Kavanagh, Prathna Lor, Sean Lovelace, Josh Maday, Dustin Martins, Yousi Mazpule, Amanda McQuade, Lisa Di Nanno, Sarah Pacha, Sam Pink, Joseph Riippi, Megan Roth, C. Harris Stevens, Ross Tierney, and Steven Wolfe.

Sam Pink

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