Jeff Bagato: 8 books

This collection of 70+ limerick verses based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos combines horror and humor in equal measure to demonstrate that man's view of himself as the center of a known space-time continuum remains laughably out of scale with the reality that ancient forces control his world.

Summoning iconic outlaws and rebels such as Johnny Appleseed, Casanova, and Bonnie and Clyde, the poems in this collection seek to alter and turn back the mass mediated tendency to find "the great awakening in a/car; nirvana in a hamburger,/a genie in a tube/of toothpaste." The poems direct...

Looking for a short, fast form for poetry with minimal restrictions but maximum bite? Friends, meet the no-ku: four lines (standard), short on syllables (from two to eight), rhymed (by different schemes), topical (or not), satirical (preferred). It's condensed like haiku, but prefers intense outbursts...

In a nightmare world that inverts the Xmas spirit and traditions, the first law is eat or be eaten, consume or be consumed. Sesam always refused to believe the Xmas legends. After the Claus and his elf swarm kill or capture everyone he knows, Sesam vows to kill Claus. If the poison from an elf's candy...

Javelin Praecox has one goal--to wash dishes on every inhabited planet in the solar system. His first stop, a mining base on Uranus, promises to be pretty easy, with the native stickies (something like an ant made out of marshmallows) to do all the work. But then more crew members disappear, and a...

Hester Featherstone thought she had life on the Ol’ Smoke’s filthy, dangerous streets all figured out. As a freelance toothpicker, she salvages children’s teeth for the viceroy, while keeping her identity as a mutant of the insect-wing class a secret. Hester’s luck takes a turn for the worse...

Continuing his quest to wash dishes on every inhabited colony in the solar system, Javelin Praecox heads for Venus. There, a small scientific expedition to study weather and extremophile bacteria has encountered the unexpected—a new alien species! The mushroom-shaped Venusians come in a variety...

The Clangers want to smuggle screech into Mars. The cops want to stop them. The huggies want to save the Martian environment. The native Paubaubau want to protect their sacred waffle paddies. The waffle gods want to preserve the interdimensional gateway. Javelin Praecox just wants to wash dishes....