Brian K. Henry

The detectives interrogate the Volcano Lounge’s exotic dancers: “Those girls look about as Polynesian as an orthopedic nurse from Bangor, Maine.” bit.ly/43FRVGC #booksky #mystery #fiction #kindle #kindleunlimited #parody #humor #comedy #novel #murdermystery

4 out of 5 stars to The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates. Oates blends history with the supernatural in this account of strange goings-on in Princeton in the early 1900s. Historical characters include Woodrow Wilson, Upton Sinclair and a very drunk Jack London! Recommended! #booksky #fiction #horror

Oh no, Bluesky broke me in terms of humor... I couldn't help laughing, then showing my boyfriend..
I'm rolling around in Alfredo and rose sauce... :P

Pasta Poetry No. 1

Pasta in the driveway
from last night’s harangue -
She rolls in marinara
under lowering clouds
plucking olive shards
from stews of mushroom -
Leaving yesterday’s fennel
on a sleeping dog.

#poetry #parody #pasta #writing #humor #booksky

I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter Amazon.com: I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter eBook : Henry, Brian K.: Kindle Store

5 star review! “Overall, the story was very atmospheric; familiar and nostalgic without feeling outdated. Basically, I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter presented a fresh way to approach everyone's favorite spooky tropes.” #booksky #paranormal #fiction #novel #books #ghost #occult amzn.to/1gwPt3U

Rustine Caprino met the detectives at the gallery entrance in a painfully elegant chartreuse one-piece dress. She had the precise and professional air of a woman who’d spent a lot of time being very clean. bit.ly/43FRVGC #fiction #booksky #novel #parody #humor #kindle #kindleunlimited

4 out of 5 stars to The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich. This was the first novel by Erdrich I’ve read and I'll definitely read more of her work. The novel is filled with memorable characters, strange incidents and quirky touches of humor. #booksky #erdrich #fiction #review

100% agree with Lolita! In fact, in that same vein, I just finished “Fox” by Oates and that one was 🤯 as well. I haven’t read your other picks so those are going on my TBR! 🙏 😊

Love those three.

For me I would say
1. Lolita
2. Tristram Shandy
3. The Ambassadors

#Litfic readers, what book(s) rewired your brain? 🧠💥

Mine:
1. Waiting for Godot
2. To the Lighthouse
3. Pale Fire

Drop any books that made you question what fiction is or can be!

#booksky #literaturesky #books #bookmemes #readinglife #mememonday

The First Cocktail Waitress in Space A Short Story

Check out my free short story The First Cocktail Waitress in Space tinyurl.com/ya9tpebb #scifi #parody #humor #comedy #fiction

5 out of 5 to Ancient Light by John Banville. It’s a kind of reverse Lolita as a married older woman carries on an affair with our narrator, a teenage boy. As usual with Banville, the prose writing is incredible. Highly recommended!
#fiction #booksky #bookreview #banville

Love Hitchhiker’s Guide also. You might like some of Woody Allen’s prose. My mystery Murderin Murk City has some absurdist humor. 😉

It's a strange killing at the Volcano Lounge in my mystery comedy Murder in Murk City: “I don’t care how many suckers you’ve lured into your shady eruption racket, Muggett. Not even the smell of burning magma can cover the stench of this killing.” bit.ly/43FRVGC #kindle #kindleunlimited #booksky

Love that novel!

TGIF! ✨ What are you reading this weekend? 📚 I’m diving deeper into Calvino’s oeuvre with Invisible Cities. So far it’s very dreamlike 🌁

#WeekendReads #LitFic #books #booklover #Booksky #CurrentlyReading #literaturesky

From Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil: “WHAT IS RELIGIOUS 69 occasion for this exercise, a playful matter, something for children and those who are childish. Perhaps the day will come when the most solemn concepts which have caused the most fights and suf-fering, the concepts "God" and "sin," will seem no more important to us than a child's toy and a child's pain seem to an old man—and perhaps "the old man" will then be in need of another toy and another pain—still child enough, an eternal child!”

From Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil #booksky 💙📚 #philosophy

The Lizards of July (No. 2) A Lizard Poem

New poem on my Substack:

The Lizards of July (No. 2)

Dangling in someone else’s bitter mind
The sluggish lizard splayed its limbs askew…

bit.ly/44MrtvB

#writing #poetry #poem #surreal #humor #summer #substack

A copy Of Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein. It’s a Penguin and has “the monster” (eh) gazing into a small pool of water, seeing his own reflection

Falling in love with this book all over again. It is a gorgeous day here in NYS to read outside.
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Only two days left to get my mystery comedy Murder in Murk City for free!

“Detective Rochelle Hispin walked through the gloom, emerging in all her glory like an orange female lighthouse appearing in on a befogged seacoast.”

bit.ly/43FRVGC #mystery #comedy #kindle #fiction #booksky #parody

Remembering the birthday of Franz Kafka, I am showing my obsessions no mercy.
I #amwriting not #compromising
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More: Franz Kafka, German-language #writer and #novelist -
www.kafka-online.info/franz-kafka-...
and
www.kafka.org/index.php?bi...

#FranzKafka #author #poet #quotes

The detectives meet Pearl Reesewell:

She had the stern, commanding manner of a woman who’d never been a waitress at an all-night pancake joint.

Murder in Murk City: Free this week! bit.ly/43FRVGC

#kindle #freebook #humor #parody #murdermystery #novel #booksky

Shocking crime bargain! My new mystery comedy Murder in Murk City is free to download, this week only! bit.ly/43FRVGC #freebook #booksky #kindle #kindleunlimited #parody #writing #comedy #humor

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The Lizards of July (No. 1)

For days the lizard chided his recruits
Lolling his tongue about in dry disdain...

Continued on my Substack: briankhenry.substack.com

#poetry #poem #surreal #humor #lizard #parody

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For June, let’s celebrate our favorite LGBT/queer/gender-creative/sexual minority characters! #booksky #pridemonth #bookchallenge

Gold vines (without leaves) twine up both sides. Tucked in amongst the vines are things like a gnome, a dragon, a lute, a sword, a key, etc - all things from the stories. Terry Pratchett is writ large in grey, the title - A Stroke of the Pen - is in shiny gold. The background is green, lighter than pine but darker than grass.

My next book was a short story collection, for the summer reading program.

I read "the lost stories" collection, A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett. These were all under pen names, in newspapers, & often serialized.

There's a foreword by Neil Gaiman & an introduction by Colin Smythe.

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The Raven Tattoo A short story

Check out my free story The Raven Tattoo: bit.ly/4esjarY
“She’d wanted a raven tattoo for weeks, since hearing that song about a sobbing raven at that club where she drank vodka tonics.” #fiction #booksky #satire #surreal #paranormal #humor #occult #writing

“None of the so-called experts thought there was a market for meat-flavored ice, but Hartley knew better. He took a crazy, frozen carnivorous dream and turned it into a thriving business enterprise with three self-service stores and two vending machines in the greater Murk City area.” bit.ly/43FRVGC