Spoon Knife Anthology

When will Frank catch a break? When will Sam put his life back together? When will someone put an end to Benny's harassment? Franklin Roberts is a good man, who does not deserve the outrageous misfortune that has left him, homeless and destitute. It's about time he got a break. W hite Feather is convinced that his new friend has a rare case of Synathesia and can SEE TIME. Maybe, he can also travel back to his past. It's about time to find out. Detective Sam Morrison has lost his family and then, his job as a homicide detective for Denver P.D. It's about time he puts it all back together in the Wet Mountain Valley. Benjamin Cook is making life miserable for everyone at St. Jude Methodist Retirement Home. It's about time someone put an end to it. Five old men have found themselves stuck in a retirement home waiting to die. It's about time they restart their lives. When a resident at St. Jude Methodist Retirement Home mysteriously dies at lunch, five eccentric old men team up to solve the crime. Will the 5 Sleuthkateers wind up in jail or solve the mystery? Follow these lovable, comic, old geezers as they bring together their eccentricities to sometimes compliment, sometimes complicate the local sheriff's office's investigation. Who will ultimately, solve this unique mystery?

The Spoon Knife Anthology is NeuroQueer Books' annual open-call collection to find new talent and to bring together our favorite regular contributors in a celebration of literature that pushes boundaries and defines the interiors of neurodivergent, Queer, and Mad experiences. In Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber, editors Dani Alexis Ryskamp and Sam Harvey give you a series of examinations of what it means to live in an environment where one feels that existence itself is a series of tests that must be successfully navigated. From the back cover: "The writers (and editors and publishers) of the book you now hold in your hands have this in common: we all diverge in some way(s) from the normative, the expected, the acceptable. We've all been pathologized, scrutinized, corrected--often, in horrible ways. As [we] write this, the United States finds itself in a new test chamber, one whose outputs will inevitably affect the rest of the world. Those of us throughout the world who find ourselves already marginalized, like the authors represented here, will suffer first, but we will not suffer alone. We all need the tools of defiance and resistance. In Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber, we explore what happens when the tools of defiance and resistance are applied to a particular purpose or demand. We test the test chamber in which we find ourselves, and in so doing, we find the power to subvert it." Please join us for our second year celebrating the diversity and craft that goes into neurodivergent, Queer, and Mad literature, and enjoy the second round of Spoon Knife. You will find a number of familiar AutPress authors in its pages, as well as a few names of people who will be delivering books through the press later this year and more than a couple of authors we hope to see manuscripts from.