Even Cozier Cosmic

At the end, when the last star dies and the cold begins to seep in, what will be the totality of our accomplishments? What will have been the point? And will anyone notice that we’re gone? If the true terror at the center of cosmic horror is the vast indifference the universe has for us, does that mean the closest thing we have to any sort of compassionate connection is . . . our cats? Ah, we may be doomed.

But, in the interim, perhaps there may still be some spark that can illuminate the grace and compassion that persists against the vast endlessness of unrelenting emptiness. Come with us, then, as we teeter along that fine line of stark raving madness . . . 

Even Cozier Cosmic contains 30 stories of the horrors that echo beneath our words, that slither in the corner of our vision, and that linger just inside the door, waiting for us to return to the scene of the crime. These are the horrors of indifference, inconsequence, and inevitability. There are cats, things that look like cats, and stories without cats at all. 

Edited by Mark Teppo & Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito

The full table of contents is as follows:

• Kate Ristau ~ “Genesis Revelation”
• Rachel Ashcraft ~ “For the Sea” 
• Devan Barlow ~ “Time to Read”
• Peter Damien ~ “Gone Fishing”
• Matthew Ross ~ “The Breaking of the Scarlet Fever”
• Erik Grove ~ “The Sky Above the Corn is Full of Eyes and Teeth”
• Basile Lebret ~ “They Get Down on All Fours”
• L. E. Daniels ~ “woman rolls sandstone”
• Kevin Wetmore ~ “Harold and the Colour-out-of-Space Crayon”
• Elad Haber ~ End of Line
• Phoenix Bourgeois ~ “Sewing the Beginning of the End”
• Luke Elliott ~ “Your Black Apron Meal Has Arrived”
• Jon Lasser ~ “The Nameless Boy and the Automatic Vegetable God”
• Tyler Battaglia ~ “From This Day Forward”
• Maxwell I. Gold ~ “My Sweet Oblivion”
• Chris J. Karr ~ “The Last Surf on a Black Sea of Infinity”
• Buffy Mitchell ~ “In a Bottle”
• Andrew S. Fuller ~ “Forget All Thy Troubles”
• Megan Lee Beals ~ “The Family Death”
• John Klima ~ “The Unrelenting Grind”
• Brian U. Garrison ~ “Before the Beginning”
• Daniel David Froid ~ “The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Center Sends Best Wishes for Your Birthday”
• Ellis Bray ~ “Dearest Mother”
• Jessie Kwak ~ “Armageddon, Now Available in Two Exciting New Colorways”
• Tania Chen ~ “We Found Each Other On the Ocean Floor”
• Margo Pecha ~ “The Fortunate Ones”
• Ngô Bình Anh Khoa ~ “The Shivering Strings Shed Tears of Blood”
• Ben Curl ~ “Hermit, Hound, Hand”
• Paul Jessup ~ “Tim and Tam Go to the Library”
• Simone Cooper ~ “Palimpsests”
• J. B. Kish ~ “How the West Was Spun”
• Jonathan Wood ~ “Elder Bods”