The Sharp End of the Rainbow

The stories you'll find at The Sharp End of the Rainbow will transport you to a dystopian wonderland full of bizarre characters who engage in even more bizarre antics. These stories will make you laugh, cry, and gag-but more importantly, they show humanity in the face of the truly absurd, and act as a mirror to the world around us.

Praise:

"Madeleine Swann writes the kinds of stories that expose the grotesqueries behind all the cute and cuddly Disneyfied facades. Punchy. Dark. Hilarious. Sharp End of the Rainbow will cut you like a scalpel. You'll bleed out while reading this and thank her for it in the end."

- Danger Slater, author of Puppet Skin

 "The Sharp End of the Rainbow goes hard out of the gate and dives deep into nightmare territory. Swann's writing is flensing and wrathful--which is to say it perfectly suits the times."

- Laird Barron, author of Blood Standard

"A dazzling storm of bizarre daydreams and nightmares. Swann is an expert surrealist, and she yanks just the right cryptic nerves to check if they'll flinch. Sometimes playful, other times shocking, these are stories of worlds and people twisted in their odd logic, much like our own, much like us."

- Hailey Piper, author of The Worm and His Kings

"Wild and weird, these tales are a rollercoaster acid trip from the heights of absurd hilarity to the depths of surreal horror and you never know, from one moment to the next, whether you're on the ascent or the descent. Madeleine Swann gives you just the barest, most tantalizing glimpse of other worlds - worlds where our comforting laws of reality warp and fray but always populated with characters who are disturbing not in their strangeness but in their familiarity."

- Bitter Karella, creator of Midnight Pals

1. Typhoid Ananya
2. Teeth Out for PewDiePie
3. Seed Man
4. Dreamscribing's Not for the Weak
5. Suckle His Poison
6. Last Chance Dinner Party
7. An Unexpected Reunion
8. All She Needs
9. Invite Ghosts and Earn Pounds
10. Amongst the Dust and the Mice
11. How to: Make Your Own Live Kitten Necklace
12. The G that Never Rubs Off
13. The Mayor of Newville
14. Dream Job
15. The Octopus in the Corner of the Room
16. Above the Bloodline of the Wayward Flower
17. How We Met
18. Before the Factory
19. Mistress Peregrin's Nightmare
20. Terry is Not a Writer
21. Cul-De-Sac of the Affected
22. End of Act One
23. No Stranger
24. Night of the Giant Hill
25. Brain Painter
26. The C Word
27. Fingers Fanciér
28. Trump Moon
29. Got to Keep an Eye on Them
30. The Sweating Shop
31. Avoid the Blue Protrusion
32. Love in the Apocalypse
33. Mr. Jollyfoot
34. Drink to Forget
35. Grand Guignol in a Can
36. Happy Suit
37. The Pinnacle of Nick
38. By the Sea Beneath the Glass
39. Fingerprints on the Blind Tour