Dirty Needlework

Dirty Needlework is a uniquely bipolar collection of short fiction. Written with equal parts mean streak and sentimentality, Cody Pierce’s stories navigate a dark and subtly bizarre world that looks and feels much like our own while simultaneously drip-feeding us doses of grim comedy.

Within Dirty Needlework you will encounter a unique swath of stories and characters, such as Brian, a college freshman held for question by a federal agent hunting his dorm-mate Timur Belanger, a physics major who may or may not have sent himself to the future.

In A Short Story About Micha and Gabby a pair of melancholy women wax intellectual about religious dogma, loopholes, and devotion while creeping towards an explosive confrontation.

The limits of an estranged relationship are tested, laid bare, and shot down in the haunted short Still: a Toxic Love Story.

Time-slide back to the Eighties and hang out with a couple of relentless teenage thieves in Stealing Comics in 1988.

Rough Crowd will introduce you to an Alzheimer's patient who perpetually replays a tragic sliver of his memory ad nauseaum.

And finally, in the novella-length And Counting... follow one man's journey as he unravels the secrets of clandestine murder website Killajerk.com, an online community where killing is a simple as right-clicking a mouse; where like-minded individuals dedicate their lives to making the world a better place one jerk at a time.

Dirty Needlework is the second collection of short fiction by Cody Pierce. His first collection, Pain by Numbers, is also available.