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So Clever You're Thick
Hardcover
Series: Tales for Well-Dressed Cynics and Optimistic Ragamuffins, Book 4
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $29.99
Publisher: 4 Horsemen Publications
Published: Jan 24 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A great, sad boy once sang: I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends. They're in my head. I related to this great, sad boy, so I looked for friends in my head too.
I found them pretty easily, pinched their feet between my fingers, pulled them out my ear, and tipped them over like salt-shakers. Stories fell onto my writing desk and built into a mountain. They ranged from strange, to sad, to stupid. They became my Cheeky, Bloody Articles.
Two years later, I rifled through the B-Sides, gathering up stories that hadn't made the cut the first time 'round because they needed a trim and tidy. I looked them in the eye and said, I know you're not the greatest, but it's your time to shine. Then I looked at my far smaller mountain of newly written stories, so youthful and naive in their school uniforms, so much left to learn. I put them on the page with all the B-Sides, and I thought: Okay, you know, this might be something. That something is So Clever You're Thick.
In my newest collection of short stories, you will follow clichés down a rabbit hole: depressed clowns, virgin cheerleaders, masturbating teenage boys, and manic pixie dream girls. Hear them speak and watch them swallow. They have so much they're dying to show you.
There exists a rare breed of storyteller who seamlessly intertwines the macabre with the comedic and crafts stories that both chill the spine and tickle the funny bone. - World's Best Magazine
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