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Now Available!  France V. Brazil by Corey Croft. 

Can a man who has lost everything he loved and pushed himself to the brink of spiritual ruin through an inability to control his life find comfort and peace in the ability to control his death?

Written in intense, lyrical prose, France vs. Brazil ’98 explores the interior life of Ernest, a night janitor and former medical student who has grown exhausted from collecting the broken pieces of the life he once had. He balances fragile optimism with apathy, struggling to find harmony with a past that refuses to release him, trapped in memory and reflection alike. He measures time through personal tragedy and understands existence through metaphor, searching for a language capable of explaining the trauma he has endured.

For readers drawn to emotionally driven literary fiction that engages with existential questions and deeply invested characters, France vs. Brazil ’98 offers a haunting meditation on mental health, tenderness, and quiet despair. Reminiscent of Camus, Sartre, and Kundera, this novella examines what we cling to when belief falters and what remains when the game is finally over. When nostalgia is not warm or comforting, but corrosive and painful.

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Becoming Buddha - Corey Croft

“Voiced from the first and third-person perspective in a humorous and metaphoric tone, Becoming Buddha by Corey Croft is a mind-blowing memoir. The writing style is impeccable.”

My life was, is and will probably always be painfully average.  I am the glistening standard of what it means to be normal.  My grades, my looks, my jobs, my partners, everything, dead-center in the median of ordinary.  Most of us are like that, at least that’s what Alex says.

Oh, Alex? He’s my best friend.

He’s attractive and cool and mysterious and says things that I’ve thought better than I could ever say them. See, I’ve always known my mediocrity and was trying to be ok with it. But Alex, he seems to think I’m capable of more. He’s my best friend and he’s anything but average. He’s also kind of a dick.

Coward - Corey Croft

“Corey Croft’s witty, perspicacious work of fiction Coward engages and captivates readers from beginning to end. 5 Stars.” -San Francisco Book Review

Sam is edging towards middle-age in a go-nowhere relationship with a dead-end job. His lust for life has all but dried up. Nothing he does seems to make him or his situation better.  Whether its laziness or complacency, he’s desperate for a change that appears more impossible every day.

Sam isn’t simply a coward. He’s the perfect coward. Defeated. Desperate. A shrieking violet in a culture where standing out is key. A wallflower praying to be plucked.

An uproarious and nail-biting social satire that seamlessly blends supernatural and real-world elements. COWARD is for fans of dark comedy and cringe humour at its finest, Kurt Vonnegut, and staring out of the window at car accidents on the highway.

The Furies - Corey Croft

“Brutal realism marks the turns of this coming-of-age novel, set during the 1990s drug boom. The city of Fury is both a haven and a hell for the teens who call it home. In Corey Croft’s gritty novel The Furies, a crew of friends are divided on whether or not to escape Fury, or to embrace its physical, social, and psychological boundaries.” – Foreword Books

THE FURIES is a timeless and authentic young adult urban novel set in the mid 1990’s. It’s gritty realism and heartfelt emotion yield a vivid and enthralling period piece which is poignant and relatable for any generation. It uses a nostalgic backdrop to depict the teenage mental health issues and social-economic hardships which remain universal and ongoing. Inspired by Menace II Society, Juice, and hip hop music from the era, The Furies is a captivating answer to what S.E. Hinton’s famed The Outsiders would look like during the meth epidemic.
Scumbag Rehab - Corey Croft

SCUMBAG REHAB is the first chapter in the February Sessions series. The novel provides a stylized and absorbing experience which combines the gratuitousness of grindhouse-era film with the mood and tone of pulp and noir fiction. The use of foul language, vulgarity and sex is abundant. Visual and daunting, this gut-punch symphony will appeal to fans of Frank Miller, Bukowski, Palahniuk and other darkly humoured, subversive works of art.

A graphic, bizarro adventure that fuses the cinematic storytelling of Scorsese and Tarantino to create a gritty, visceral spectacle that lunges from the page and reads like an erotic thriller movie. The cocktail of sex, murder and revenge in this hard-hitting, hard-boiled splatterfest is not for the weak of heart or the easily offended.