Description

Could you find your life’s calling in a chicken suit? Would you marry a stranger for the sake of keeping up appearances? Do you have the guts to carry around every piece of garbage you have ever generated? How about to feed your neighbor’s stupid dog — the one that always barks at you — out of spite?

Typical Malignancies is a collection of six modern fables exploring life’s mundane discontents. Loneliness, lack of meaning, looming climate collapse. Against this backdrop, Kennedy’s characters must hazard everything to glimpse truths hidden in plain sight. Are they up to this struggle? Will any of them be able to find salvation?

Perfect for: Anyone ready to see just how strange the mundane can be.

Book Details

Pages: 103
ISBN: 979-8-591-44490-7
Published: 2021
Folly X.O. #: 1

Author

Dustin Kennedy has a Ph.D. in English from The Pennsylvania State University. His past publications include the novella Tav (2017), essays of literary criticism in ESQ and other journals, as well as some of the short stories collected in Typical Malignancies. He lives in the D.C. metro area.

@dk4sooth

Acclaim

'Typical Malignancies explores the minor humiliations, acts of revenge, and symbolic annihilations of our modern world with comedy and pathos.’ - Jessica Sequeira, A Luminous History of the Palm.

‘Blissfully mundane, playfully absurd, and tragically relatable.’ - Geraldine Snell, overlove.

‘In these stories, obsessions turn into survival strategies, and what we despise becomes essential. I couldn’t help but want to put on that chicken suit.’ - Rachel Sturges, @rachsturges.