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It's No Fun Anymore is a collection of eight stories that explore the politics of victimization, the sites of trauma on women's bodies, and their attempts to divine meaning from suffering. In ""The Experiment,"" the murder of a young girl prompts a stay-at-home mother to undertake a desperate bid for agency, drawing unlikely inspiration from a 1950s self-help book. An MLM saleswoman in ""Border Crossings"" is held captive at the Canadian border, and in her marriage. And ""Thumb Stump"" introduces a new mother, who worries her baby will inherit both her perceived deformity and generational trauma. These stories examine the double binds of motherhood, the sham of ""having it all,"" the daily struggles. The centralizing thread is the question: How can trauma be transformed?

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""Brittany Micka-Foos shows us the short story at its best: visceral, unflinching, and nail-biting. In these stories, the women protagonists bare the scars of childbirth and motherhood on their bodies and wear their anxieties on their sleeves, hyper attuned to the dangerous world around them and willing, if not always prepared, to do battle. If you want a collection that will bring a gun to a knife fight, this is the one. Unafraid and unapologetic, my only complaint was that I reached the end too soon."" - Gwen E. Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw""It's No Fun Anymore is a bracing read, a fearless collection that's willing to get weird and push the boundaries. These stories are incisive and visceral depictions of mothers on the brink. Each one digs into the real, beating heart of its characters, in all their messiness, anger, and humor. Brittany Micka-Foos is a gifted writer with an eye for the little details that make stories come alive."" - Tom McAllister, author of How to Be Safe ""I love the women in Brittany Micka-Foos's It's No Fun Anymore. One's husband complains to her, 'You see the sinister in everything.' What he views as a criticism is to me a testament to her savvy and her charm. These characters' all-too-familiar anxieties about the human world and about their abilities to cope with and thrive in that world lead them to test themselves in ways that put me on edge, made me laugh out loud, and caused me to recognize myself again and again."" - Michelle Ross, author of They Kept Running and Shapeshifting ""A beautiful, haunting collection that courageously tackles the societal constraints so many women and mothers experience, the complexity of relationships, and the lingering residue of childhood trauma and male violence. Full of exquisite details and profoundly human characters, this gripping collection peels back layers with masterful care and makes us see ourselves."" - Jennifer Case, author of We Are Animals""In Brittany Micka-Foos's extremely impressive debut short story collection, younger women, wives and mothers-some married, some not-contend with their relationships with the men in their lives and, in some cases, their relationships with their own bodies. The collection delights with its subtleties, dark hints, and surprises. The author's voice is probing, questioning, and compassionate. Every story in It's No Fun Anymore drew me in and left me thinking and caring about the characters long after I finished the book."" - Lynn Levin, author of House Parties and The Minor Virtues ""Alternating between poignant, grim, and sometimes haunting stories, It's No Fun Anymore cuts to the core of all our deepest fears about being a woman in the 21st century. In stark prose, Micka-Foos makes you feel the immediacy of her characters' experience as they navigate motherhood, career, love, and getting out of bed each morning. Every story invites you to wrestle with the choices you'd make in the same situation, and that's where the real fun begins."" - Alexandria Faulkenbury, author of Somewhere Past the End

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Brittany Micka-Foos is a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of the poetry chapbook A litany of words as fragile as window glass (Bottlecap Press, 2024). Her work has been published in Ninth Letter, Witness Magazine, NonBinary Review, Hobart, and elsewhere. To read more, visit: www.brittanymickafoos.com

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