Steve Lowe

You Are Sloth!

Billy Gillespie wakes up one morning to discover his junk is gone. In its place is his wife's junk. Billy is now Tina, and Tina is dead. That's because Billy's dead. His lifeless body is still in bed and empty beer bottles and a container of antifreeze litter the kitchen counter. Over the next 24 hours, Billy and an odd assortment of neighbors, all experiencing their own bouts of body switcheroo, try to figure out what happened and why. Can they do it before the Feds find Billy's body? Was it aliens that caused this, or God, or the government? And did Edgar Winter really sleep with his sheep? Pro football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw has those answers in a story that asks, What Would Kirk Cameron Do?

Muscle Memory

Alan McArthur

A critique of modern culture by a former "Daily Show" writer offers an encyclopedic listing of observations that challenges the ridiculous in everything from Che Guevara merchandise to DVDs with ads that cannot be skipped.

Insanely Annoying Modern Things

Is it Just Me Or is Everything Shit?

King of the Perverts

Thiess remembers very little of his life before he changed. His only memories now are of frozen mornings, being naked and coated in human blood, and of running for his life from a tracker bent on his destruction. Then he falls in love with Maria, and together, they race through the crumbling slums of a city, setting off a chain of events that will threaten the existence of mankind.

Wolves Dressed as Men

Chris Reed

Richard Godwin

Sean Monaghan

Bryan Lindenberger

Graeme Reynolds

Laura Eno

Magen Cubed

Brian Barnett

Nathaniel Tower

Sheldon Lee Compton

Tania Luna

Kevin Shamel

Dan Powell

A.J. Brown

Michael A. Kechula

William Pauley III

Annemarie Bogart

Christie Isler

Andrew Kaspereen

Chris Bowsman

Jimmy Callaway

Mark Anthony Crittenden

Chad Case

Joshua Day

Robert C. Eccles

Spencer Wendleton

Suzie Bradshaw

Donna Jean Lyons

Angel Zapata

Jodi MacArthur

Eugene Gramelis

Stephanie Barnett

Garrett Ashley

John Harrower

Lee Hughes

Dustin Reade

On August 11th, 2009 a new and exciting blog was born, THE NEW FLESH. This blog quickly became the home of hundreds of misfit stories that, to put it simply, were 'too weird' for other markets. 212 stories were published during YEAR ONE.

These are our favorites.

Year One

 Long Live The New Flesh

The Encyclopedia of Modern Life

Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?

Britain. What's that all about then? Having skewered modern life and culture in the bestselling Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?, Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur set out to uncover the deep dark truth about Britain - its history, its myths and its people. Over the course of a year they endure the Last Night of the Proms and search for a couple of pissed dragons under a hill in Wales. They witness Scotland rising again (a bit), encounter terrifying Europhobe ladies in Surrey and lose the will to live in Gibraltar. They also meet a lot of druids. Hilarious, provocative and filled with fascinating facts, Blighty offers a brilliant, alternative vision of Britain - the island in the Atlantic that some people call Britain.

The Quest for Britishness, Britain, Britons, Britishness and The British

Blighty

Homicidal Wendigos! Limb-lopping samurai! Ambitionless slackers! Marijuana! A redhead! Robo-Dick! It's been a few weeks since Benson returned to his parents' home in the idyllic gated community of Grand Acres. He hasn't seen them since. Ever since locking himself in the house with his supply of junk food and pot, he hasn't seen much of anyone. When he's finally coerced from the house and joins an ominous neighborhood group know as the Brown Shirts, Benson realizes things in Grand Acres aren't nearly as tranquil as he thought. Even worse, there's a samurai on the loose who is settling grudges in very violent ways.

Samurai Vs. Robo-Dick

An encyclopedic attack on modern culture so hilariously bitter that it actually becomes uplifting. Based on two runaway UK bestsellers, this new American edition has been ingeniously adapted and features exclusive new material for US audiences by Brendan Hay, a former Daily Show headline producer and contributing writer to America: The Book. If you hate chick lit, Che Guevara merchandise, pop Kabbalah, cosmetic-surgery-gone-wrong-as-tv-programming, DVDs with ads you can't skip, or any of a few hundred other insanely annoying modern things, then this book will finally lend creedence to your frustrations. Say NO to the awful ideas, terrible people, useless products, and infuriating doublespeak that increasingly dominates our lives. Never before has there been a book so completely full of shit. Clearly, it isn't just you...

We’ve seen the future. And it’s shit. From the authors of the mega-selling Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?

The Shape of Shit to Come

Henry David Thoreau

In this illustrated adaptation of Thoreau's famous work, a man retreats into the woods and discovers the joys of solitude and nature.

Walden

The authors of the bestselling IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? survey the post-crash landscape. Are we better people now, or just the same people with less money? From bank bailouts to enviro-copouts; from Tory politicans listening to The Jam to celebrity credit crunch 'victims' Grant Bovey and Anthea Turner; from BNP coppers to Christian theme parks to middle-class shoppers banging on about budget supermarkets; plus everyone banging on about The Wire . . . Funny, sharp and timely, IS IT JUST ME OR HAS THE SHIT HIT THE FAN? asks the crucial questions of the new age, like; why are the people who screwed the world still running the world and screwing the world until we're all screwed more than we've ever been screwed before?

Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery

Is It Just Me Or Has The Shit Hit The Fan?

It was shit. Then the shit hit the fan. Would someone find a way of making it worse? Of course they would! Welcome to THE SHITSHOW...' There's a lot going on these days. Trump, Brexit, Call the Midwife . . . The rise of the robots . . . The rise of Easy Peelers . . . The authors of the bestselling Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? series present an hilarious examination of the new age, asking: ~Is Donald Trump a literary character? ~The AI/robot takeover: has it already happened? ~Are the animals ganging up on us too? ~What is an LGBT sandwich? ~Would you like to make it as an influencer? ~Is Brexit Britain like the 1950s, or the 1930s, or, er, the 780s? ~What is 5G? ~What is consciousness? ~Do you need a smart toilet? ~Are you stronger than clickbait? Just get on with it! Whatever 'it' is.

An ‘Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?' Special

The Shitshow

An encylopedic attack on modern culture and the standard reference work for everyone who believes everything is shit. Which it is. This book brings together the very best of Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? Volumes 1 and 2. Anyone who enjoyed the first two volumes will like this book even more. Equally, anyone who didn't like those books will actually find this one hilarious and informative.

The Best Of Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?

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Steve Lowe

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