Toxic Cookout

A collection of darkly comic science fiction and horror stories: • An unsuspecting yoga teacher finds himself in the world of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft in at the Arkham YMCA • A paranoid writer is convinced that the family cookout he’s attending on the North Shore is unwholesome, if not downright dangerous. • A retired school teacher watches a tiny civilization evolve in his neighbor’s garage. • A man’s GPS system leads him to Antarctica—and somewhere even more remote. • A spoiled rich girl from Manchester-by-the-Sea takes advantage of a global warming crisis to go surfing in winter. • People caught in a pyramid scheme start to change lose their humanity—literally. • An artistic couple finds an ideal spot in Florida—well, except for the time-traveling worm holes. • A young man moving to New York in the 1980s finds out the truth about his reputedly mob-connected super. Toxic Cookout, which features ordinary people in fantastic circumstances, is published by Big Table Publishing in San Francisco, California.