Matty ByloosDon’t Smell the Floss
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From Matty Byloos and Write Bloody Books: Don’t Smell the Floss, the first collection of short stories on the press, out spring 2009. Fourteen stories that defy logic in only the most perverse and elegant of ways. Part One, “Kittied to Death,” includes 7 stories that delve into the mysterious and often inexplicable nature of love. Part Two, “Nagasaki and What Not,” brings you 7 more equally disturbing tales of dreams, adventures and life inside trauma. |
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Praise for Don’t Smell the Floss: Andrew Leland from The Believer says: “I was kittied to death by these stories. Matty Byloos’s fiction doesn’t go down smooth, and that’s a good thing: his sentences are hot blurts that bust rudely and hilariously into the reader’s consciousness. The revelations of Byloos’s book are many: I’m very glad I now know about ‘Momma’s little ham-glazing sessions’; I’ll never forget that ‘my couch is like a soap opera….’” |
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From Casey McKinney, Writer and Founding Editor, The Fanzine: “The miracles of Don’t Smell the Floss are actually the exquisite detritus of a hard working craftsman of the Word. His lines are chiseled, and like a sculptor, or a mad surgeon with a double degree in the murkier matters of psychoanalysis, he digs deep through the sinews of body and mind and often yanks back a funny bone. I’m still coughing bones back through a few of my orifices and am never the worse for wear.” |
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| From Benjamin Weissman, Author of Dear Dead Person and Headless: “The dictum a rock and a hard place has shifted in the hands of Matty Byloos. Now as readers we find ourselves between a sponge and a wet blanket. The brains behind the Byloos engine are good, odd brains, rambunctious, what you want in a narrative pilot, where conscious errors abound, and unreliabilities are lavish, exact, extreme, and deader than the coyest pan of dead. Byloos is a mischievous man… they still make them in our country. They’re just hard to find.” |    |
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