Under the Sea

✍ Scribed by Leidner, Mark

• Publisher: Tyrant Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 138 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York (N.Y.
• ISBN: 0991360885

✦ Synopsis

Under the Sea is Mark Leidner's debut story collection published by Tyrant Books in 2018 and named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed , Spinoff , and The New Statesman.

In the gripping opener "Bad-Asses," a naive drug dealer's stash is stolen, leading her to unleash her inner bad-ass as she tries to recover it. In the bizarre and hilarious "21 Extremely Bad Breakups," each breakup is more absurd than the last: lovers get side-swiped by speeding busses, play paper-rock-scissors with each others lives, cause an asteroid to destroy the planet, and more. In "Under the Sea," a woman with one day to live has an affair with a loser she picks up at a video game arcade. In the unbelievably epic "Avern-Y6," a despondent insect gets shitfaced at the brink of a colony-wide civil war, only to learn he has an role to play in history after all. A social outcast going off on some teens in a bougie café, a depressed man in a physical fight with an...

✦ Subjects

Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction