A man marries a house, a father disappears in the middle of his own family, lead hearts beat inside flesh-&-blood ribs, the world will not stop burning. Poet and dream deliverer Mathias Svalina's first collection of stories is filled with fables and nightmares that mix surreal vulnerability & bewildered violence. Ranging from silly to scary to alarmingly possible, Comedy unsettles with all the force of unspoken emotions

About the author: Mathias Svalina is the author of nine books. Comedy is his first short story collection. Svalina was a founding editor of the small press Octopus Books, & since 2014 he's run a Dream Delivery Service, traveling around the country to write & deliver dreams to subscribers. With the Dream Delivery Service, he's worked with the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Poetry Foundation, & the MOCA Tucson. His current home base is Richmond, Virginia.

ISBN: 978-1-951226-24-4

Pages: 134

Release Date: 2 December 2025