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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Sep 14

Mid-September in Portland and it's finally raining for real real. And after we tidied up the Future Tense inventory closet, we decided to mark some stuff down. It's a good day to order some books!
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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Sep 6

We can't wait to publish the new Shane Kowalski {@dieddisappointed.bsky.social} collection, Are People Out There. You can claim your October copy now!
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shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · Sep 3

You can now pre-order my new collection of stories, Are People Out There. It drops 10.31.25 via @futuretensebooks.bsky.social: futuretensebooks.com/product/peop...

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shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social · Aug 20

i have a story up at Cleveland Review of Books. it's the title story of my forthcoming collection with @futuretensebooks.bsky.social. the story is about a baby.

Are People Out There - Cleveland Review of Books

I decided to become my friend’s baby. My friend is someone I know from high school. We’ve been friends for years. Now she is married to a man, a CPA or MBA or CEO, and they have a baby.

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Aug 8

"The result is an insatiable discomfort coupled with the determination to just keep reading and un-fuzz the whole thing."
We love this review of Diana Orepeza's amazing book.

Fiction Review: Tara Van De Mark Reads Diana Oropeza’s Debut Collection An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance

An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance by Diana Oropeza arrived by mail, slipped out of the envelope, through my hands, and onto the hallway floor. The size of a passport, it landed next to a …

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Aug 6

We love seeing reviews and ratings of our books on Goodreads. For small presses, this is hugely important.
Hint hint. 😉

Easy Tiger

A dunce cap on a dog. The world’s largest sausage. A gi…

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Jul 31

Wonderful event last night at Powell’s with @wendyortiz.com in conversation with @emillygprado.bsky.social

(Wendy, Emilly, and Kevin)

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

Tonight!! ✨

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · Jul 28

We’ve got cooler temperatures in LA than Portland rn 🤪 Hope to see you Wednesday!

POWELL'S BOOKS
PRESENTS
WENDY C.
ORTIZ
WITH EMILLY PRADO
Image of EXCAVATION
Image of HOLLYWOOD NOTEBOOK
Image of BRUJA: A DREAMOIR
POWELL'S CITY OF BOOKS | WEDNESDAY, JUL. 30 • 7 PM

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Jul 29

hell yeah brother

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Jul 29

Did you miss the Easy Tiger virtual launch on Sunday? You can rest easy now, because the full reading is up on YouTube!

🐅🐅🐅

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Jul 26

Nice to see @parkeryoung.bsky.social on Aaron’s list. 🙌

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · Jun 11

was asked for "a list of 5-10 or so recent collections you want to vouch for" and so threw this together, and am counting it as my "writing" for the day

Here's a list of 8 recent (all from just the last year or two, all from indie/smaller presses) collections which I love and think deserve more readers. A very biased list! I think all of them are books I've blurbed, or the author is a friend, or someone I've published... and sometimes all three. I'm probably forgetting something incredibly obvious, but these were the first 7 that jumped out, when thinking about this and scanning my bookshelf.

Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane by Parker Young (Future Tense Books)
This book feels like a classic example of a story collection exemplifying "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts." I'd read some of these stories here and there, but reading them all together felt like a revelation. They sucked me in and made me see the world through Parker's eyes, and story-by-story, I fell more in love with that vision and these stories and this book.
Sad Grownups by Amy Stuber (Stillhouse Press)
I honestly and earnestly believe one of the best story collections of the century (so far). Up there, in my estimation, with Danielle Evans and Andrew Porter and Lori Ostlund. (Which, if you don't know those writers or my affinity for them, is among my highest of compliments. And also: go read them too!)
Horse Girl Fever by Kevin Maloney (Clash Books)
Kevin is one of my favorite writers. Favorite people. His writing is full of drugs and chaos, all condensed into razor sharp sentences where anything can happen, in ways that often (always) reminds me, and I hope reminds every writer who reads him, that you can do whatever you want in a story.
Hey You Assholes by Kyle Seibel (Clash Books)
I'm jealous at how good Kyle is and how strong this collection is. He has this storytelling voice in ways that often feels almost like a monologue, told by the funniest, best storyteller character you've ever met.

Girl on Girl by Emily Costa (Rejection Letters)
Emily is probably my favorite writer of adolescent awkwardness and struggles, and this collection is exhibit A... and B and... however many letters for how many stories there are in it. Each feels familiar and true in ways that are embarrassing and cringey, and also filled with humor and making you want to read more.
Magic Can't Save Us by Josh Denslow (University of New Orleans Press)
It isn't really represented in this list, but I've been a real fan lately of collections that find some interesting/creative but more roundabout way to be "linked." These stories don't have any recurring characters or places or anything, but all are relationship/breakup stories and in some way feature a magical creature (centaur, unicorn, mermaid, etc.). They are fun, and funny, and full of heart, and feel honest and true in ways that sometimes you can only access through the supernatural.
The Nothing by Lauren Davis (Yes Yes Books)
This book snuck up on me. I wrote in my blurb, "There are ghosts in these stories. Sometimes literal, other times only in metaphor or feeling," and, indeed, these stories pulse with ache and feeling. They get inside you and haunt you, in the best way.
My Prisoner and Other Stories by Tyler McAndrew (The Ohio State University Press)
This book is forthcoming in a few months, out in September 2025, and I hope it finds the readers it deserves. I've read it a couple times already, and will likely soon be revisiting it for a third time for an interview with Tyler, and what a treat to have a book you want to, and get excited to, revisit. Here's what I said in my blurb:
“These stories orbit misunderstandings, mishaps, miscommunications, each shining a spotlight on a character seeking and aching for some kind of connection, the very thing I desire from a short story, from art—to be pulled into its orbit, to be made to feel a connection. If you’re reading this now, I’m excited for and jealous of you spending time with…

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HAD @havehashad.com · Jul 21

a wonderful, wonderfully odd, and kinda perfectly "Kowalski-y" story today from Shane Kowalski!

"I read a book review that ended with the reviewer explaining how he was going to kill himself when this review was published. It certainly was a shock!"

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Typical by Shane Kowalski

I read a book review that ended with the reviewer explaining how he was going to kill himself when this review was published. It certainly was a shock! For most of the previous 1,500 words, the…

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

Rob McLennan on Evan Nicholls' Easy Tiger. 🐅
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Evan Nicholls, Easy Tiger

EASY TIGER The tiger makes it all so easy, the way it sweeps the woman’s house, packs a satsuma for her snack, accounts for the taxes. The...

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Jul 9

I'm hosting a super cool virtual reading at the end of the month to celebrate Evan's new book! Featuring some of my favorite writers on this planet

RSVP for free: bit.ly/easytigerlaunch

@markleidner.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @garybarwin.bsky.social / @futuretensebooks.bsky.social

EASY TIGER: a virtual reading, Evan Nicholls reading from his new book, Easy Tiger, July 27 at 4pm ET, with readings from Mark Leidner, Vik Shirley, Gary Barwin, and Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi

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BartonSmock @bartonsmock.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

This is going to be so fun to watch! 😍🤩😮

Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Jul 9

I'm hosting a super cool virtual reading at the end of the month to celebrate Evan's new book! Featuring some of my favorite writers on this planet

RSVP for free: bit.ly/easytigerlaunch

@markleidner.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @garybarwin.bsky.social / @futuretensebooks.bsky.social

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · Jun 28

10 collections from 2025 we can’t stop thinking about ✨📚

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jun 25

At the wee one’s final weekly ukulele lesson of the season, moving through two very cool titles by Future Tense Books, by shane kowalski and Evan Nicholls, // @futuretensebooks.bsky.social

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Jun 17

Pssst. If you type the word Warehouse in the discount code, you'll get 35% off of everything (until the end of June). Including the newest by Evan Nicholls. And other classics from @parkeryoung.bsky.social @dieddisappointed.bsky.social @gkhudson.bsky.social @tatianaryckman.bsky.social & more. 🔥

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · Jun 17

just received a copy of EASY TIGER by evan nicholls from @futuretensebooks.bsky.social, what a treasure!

go pick up some books and get 35% off through the end of the month by using code WAREHOUSE!

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the cover of EASY TIGER by evan nicholls, published by future tense books — the design is largely black with white knockout text and a small strip at the top showing a portion of a collage

a hand with the interior of the book, showing a collage and a poem titled “married to the job”

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Jun 17

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Jun 17

Pssst. If you type the word Warehouse in the discount code, you'll get 35% off of everything (until the end of June). Including the newest by Evan Nicholls. And other classics from @parkeryoung.bsky.social @dieddisappointed.bsky.social @gkhudson.bsky.social @tatianaryckman.bsky.social & more. 🔥

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Jun 6

Today, a masterwork is born. Evan Nicholls’s full color book of odd poems and lil’ collages, Easy Tiger, is uncaged!

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$18.00 150 pages, full color ISBN 979-8-9986256-0-2 5″ x 7″ Available through Ingram and Asterism Books Distribution.

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Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social · Jun 2

That feeling when you have another @dieddisappointed.bsky.social book coming out later this year.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · May 24

haven’t posted a stack in a while 📚

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