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Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author

It Came from Below the Belt

About Me

I'm an author of bizarro fiction . My debut novel, IT CAME FROM BELOW THE BELT, was published by Afterbirth Books. I write surreal/absurd humor stuff.

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Meet Grover Goldstein: Twenty-First Century rascal, trainee provocateur, boy next door who won't stop snickering at you from behind the lawn gnome. Swallowed by a giraffe and regurgitated oodles of years into the future, Grover must satisfy his urge to go home--even if it means going back to high school and helping his severed, and sentient, penis win the presidential election. Come along to Assumption High as Grover tries to answer the age-old question, "What if I had forgotten then what I don't know now?"


"Bradley Sands' debut novel is an absurdist dreamscape that subverts the physical laws of the world as we know it and exposes a brilliant new arena of bizarro existence. In It Came from Below the Belt, the body becomes a surreal, grotesque playground as enfant terrible Grover Goldstein tears through the libidinal fabric of time and space on an uncanny journey to the end of the night. This is speculative fiction at its best. Sands is a talented, fearsome, comic visionary who will usher you into the psychedelic matrix of futurity."
-- D. Harlan Wilson, author of STRANGER ON THE LOOSE and PSEUDO-CITY
"Reading the work of Bradley Sands caused me to vomit happiness and sunshine from my eyeballs. Highly recommended."
-- Kevin L. Donihe, author of SHALL WE GATHER AT THE GARDEN? and editor of BARE BONE
"I came, I saw, I read, I laughed, I fell out of my chair. You're more unstable than I am. Well done! Just beware those big brawny guys with the net. They're faster than they look. And you've got more books to write. Rock on."
-- Kris Saknussemm, author of ZANESVILLE

Now available through Amazon , my website , Afterbirth Books , Shocklines , the Genre Mall , or your favorite online bookstore. You can also special order it from your local bookstore.

I'm also the editor of:

Issue 7 is now available. It is a free, online issue.


Includes stories by Rhys Hughes, D. Harlan Wilson, John Edward Lawson, Sean Kilpatrick, Mike Young, Corey Mesler, Andersen Prunty, Cameron Pierce, Amelia Gray, Caleb Ross, Forrest Armstrong, Stefani Nellen, Erik Williams, Jason M. Heim, and Matt Doyle. Cover art by Jase Daniels.

My Interests

absurdism, surrealism, bizarro fiction, condensed writing, comics, cleverness, off-color humor, finger monsters, napping, salt lake city, northampton

I'd like to meet:

Like-minded readers and writers. Anomalies.

Music:

Prick, Pulp, Mentallo and the Fixer, The Legendary Pink Dots, Mike Patton, Skinny Puppy, Interpol, Joy Division, Oingo Boingo, Babyland, Nick Cave, Mindless Self Indulgence, Tricky, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Pigface, The Cramps, Vampire Rodents, Meat Beat Manifesto, Psychic TV, Foetus, Dillinger Escape Plan, Eighties B-line Matchbox Disaster, Liars, Tub Ring, Melt Banana, Public Image, Momus, ? and the Mysterians, Ween, Genocide Jamboree, Plastic Bertrand, Calla, vocalists who express their discontent through growls rather than crisp, clear verbiage

Movies:

Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John Waters, Hal Hartley, Giuseppe Andrews, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Guy Maddin, Woody Allen, Troma movies, Donnie Darko, The Forbidden Zone, Battle Royale, If, Funny Games, Once Upon a Time in America, Me and You and Everyone We Know, the ending of Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive

Television:

Strangers with Candy, Oz, The Wire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, Blake's Seven, The Avengers, Secret Agent, The Venture Bros., Upright Citizens Brigade, The Prisoner, Red Dwarf, Cowboy Bebop, Get A Life, The Daily Show, Lexx, Arrested Development, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Scrubs

Books:

Steve Aylett, Kevin L. Donihe, John Edward Lawson, William Burroughs, Mark Leyner, Raymond Chandler, Carlton Mellick III, Thomas Ligotti, Lewis Carroll, Steve Erickson, D. Harlan Wilson, Tom Robbins, Kelly Link, Flann O'Brien, Voltaire, William Faulkner, William Gibson, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Carroll, Paul Auster, Tibor Fischer, Will Christopher Baer, H.P. Lovecraft, Chris Genoa, Alyssa Sturgill, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Happy Cruelty Day!, The Illuminatus Trilogy, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lamb, books by: Eraserhead Press, Afterbirth Books, and Raw Dog Screaming Press. Mags: McSweeney's, Zoetrope, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, The Dream People

Heroes:

Genesis P-Orridge and Grant Morrison

My Blog

New Story at decomP

Read "In the Restaurant" at http://decompmagazine.com.It is about eating food, which is a very important issue the youth of America is facing today....
Posted by Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author on Sun, 11 May 2008 09:26:00 PST

The Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue)

The new volume of The Bizarro Starter Kit has been released.I have a novella in it called Cheesequake Smash-up.It is about a city-wide demolition derby with moving buildings where the winner gets a m...
Posted by Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:44:00 PST

I am blogging

I now have a blog here: www.lawngnomesinspace.blogspot.comIt is a lot of fun. I've never done a proper blog before.I would blog on myspace, but I'm afraid Ted Turner will submit my entries under his ...
Posted by Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:54:00 PST

New Story at Lamination Colony

I rewrote the beginning of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Bill Lee is now an Indiana Jones-type. This I decree.Lamination Colony is a cool lit journal. Read it here: lamination.deadwinter.comIssue s...
Posted by Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:28:00 PST

Two New Interviews

Gabrielle Faust interviews me for her blog, Eternal Vigilance: www.gabriellefaust.com/archives/315Joe Matheny interviews me and D. Harlan Wilson for the podcast, The G-Spot: greylodge.org/gpc/?p=1307...
Posted by Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:58:00 PST

New (free) issue of Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens

Issue 7 is out. It is free. It is online. It is a PDF. It begins with a letter from a dog and ends with a bag of gold. It is very good.It includes stories (Rhys Hughes, D. Harlan Wilson, John Edward ...
Posted by Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:35:00 PST

The Way He Laughs

I have a story up at susurrus: the literature of madness: here.
Posted by Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:10:00 PST

Thirdeye Magazine reviews It Came from Below the Belt

Here's another review of my book. Sorry, it's kind of lame to post all these reviews for the people who have already read it. But unfortunately, I'm not big on blogging. Although maybe I should chang...
Posted by Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:02:00 PST

500 Words on Money

Zombie George Washington strokes his obelisk beneath the Washington Monument, envious of his monument's stature. He is not the traditional kind of zombie who moans and groans through a horror movie. T...
Posted by Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:34:00 PST

500 Words on 500 Words

The 500 word essay has ravaged the Earth for centuries. High school teachers may claim it is only a harmless assignment to expand the intellectual capacity of their students, but this is a smokescreen...
Posted by Bradley Sands, Bizarro Author on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:06:00 PST