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Interesting Times
Artists, it has fallen to us to live in interesting times. It could be a blip, but it could be that everything we have ever done and thought and learned comes to this: WHAT WILL WE DO ABOUT IT? With this project, we want to declare that above all else, we will not give up quietly, and we will not leave the vulnerable behind. We will give a fuck. We will lift people up. We will stand shoulder to shoulder, head to head, to demand a better, kinder reality. In celebrating our collective strength, we will make sure there is something left to celebrate when the dust settles.
The term HOPEPUNK to refer to speculative fiction that focuses on hope and community was coined by author Alexandra Rowland in 2017, but it isn’t new. Octavia Butler’s work, especially the Earthseed series, is hopepunk. Adrian Tchaikovsky, Becky Chambers, Amal El-Mohtar, and many others have written hopeful, community-based, found-family, We-Will-Not-Run fiction. In addition, we are inspired by the writers, distributors, and readers of forbidden samizdat in the former Soviet Union and stretching along a long historical line of writers and readers who have lived under oppressive regimes and used poems, stories, and essays to connect, to organize, to find freedom and light together in the shadows.
Check out the Current Project page for more information, or head straight to the Kickstarter page and read about it there!
Our Books
The Hyperion: Tales from Hell (2023)
The more urban explorer Brayden Winchell learned about the mysterious Hyperion building that supposedly appeared in his native Chicago only once a year, the more he smelled a challenge... and a serious boost for his channel. He went in on Halloween night ready to debunk some myths and get some solid content. He was not prepared for what he found. Follow Brayden's journey through The Hyperion, as he goes floor to floor, reading eerie poetry on the walls along the way. Each floor, a resident. Each resident, a tale, and a piece of a surprising puzzle.
In these ten stories, ranging from deliciously grotesque horror to tricky considerations of moral relativity and whether the punishment fits the crime, the reader explores questions of what Hell might be, how one might land there, and the idea that it may well be entirely different for every soul residing in its domain.
Welcome to The Hyperion. We've been expecting you.
Horror/speculative fiction anthology including 10 short stories and 10 poems. 212 pages.
Zehlreg Augustus Grindstone’s Spectacular Western Oddity Spectacular (2024)
Step right up, ladies & gents, elves & orcs, one & all to Zehlreg Augustus Grindstone's Spectacular Western Oddity Emporium!
Gather ‘round with us at the crossroads of Wild West and Fantasy to celebrate the arrival of the emporium, a general store like no other that travels the West bringing tales filled with dragons, gold, cowboys, and demons, along with so much more! This anthology features over 40 original pieces imagining a Wild West where horrors and wonders from other storytelling traditions dance, play, and fight on the plains, in the mines, and at the saloons alongside the usual suspects.
Come on in. We can’t wait to show you!
Speculative fiction anthology including 40 short & flash stories and 3 poems. 584 pages.
About the Creators
Interesting Times is an anthology project co-edited by authors Suzanna Lundale and Marc Tizura. here.
Suzanna Lundale is a lifelong writer and observer of the world who grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and has made her home in many places since. She is passionate about language, history, travel, dogs, and the loved ones – real and imagined - who form her galaxy. Suzanna's Latinx/Scandinavian-American heritage, and her identity as a witch, contribute to the complexity of her worldview and her interest in questions of identity and liminal spaces. Suzanna's poetry & stories have appeared in The Crow’s Quill, Goat Shed Press, Haunted Words Press, and others. She is the co-creator and -editor of The Hyperion: Tales from Hell (2023). Suzanna tweets new poetry and fictional vignettes daily as @SuzannaLundale. Email: suzanna.lundale@gmail.com
Marc Tizura is a Chicago-based, part-time Actor/Voice actor, author of short stories in the horror, speculative, fantasy, sci-fi and comedy genres, scriptwriter, YouTuber, paranormal enthusiast, and former ghost hunter with a deep love of history and mythology, and an odd interest in hypnosis. He is also the Creator and operator of #tfteotw and End of the World Productions Ltd. Marc currently staff writes for two digital Rewritten Realms publications: In The Pantheon, where he writes for Thanatos, the God of Death, and In the Crescent, where he writes for the Crossroads Demon, Dr. John Lafayette. Marc has been featured in the Crow's Quill Magazine through Quill & Crow Publishing. Links to Marc's publications and social media can be found here.
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“[A] tapestry of disturbing twists and turns.”
– from a 5-star review of The Hyperion: Tales from Hell
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"[E]very story in here left me wanting more."
– from a 5-star review of Zehlreg Augustus Grindstone’s Spectacular Western Oddity Emporium