Hesitation Press: 4 books

Cousin Tina Disappears is a convoluted story about an isolated family living in a small, American town. When Aunt Shirley returns home from a lengthy visit to a quack doctor, one in a series of painful treatments for an imaginary tumor, she finds Tina crawling in a heap of garbage on the kitchen floor....

When I wrote A Year with the Hoopers, my only goal was to be as funny as possible. Who needs plots, richly-developed characters, or the human condition? Not me! Before doing any other work on the book, I wrote more than 2,000 gags: one-liners, jokes, aphorisms, cartoons, and anything else I could...

A large box is thrown from a passing van into a yard. Inside the box, the yard’s owner finds some worthless junk packed with a tremendous amount of shredded paper. Enraged, he hires two local teenagers to scan the shreds into his computer, he uses special software to reassemble the shreds, and he...

Before you get too excited, despite its title, “Waking Up Naked on My Mother’s Grave” isn’t a horror book. It doesn’t explore an alternative world of ghosts, vampires, zombies, or the ultimate consequences of radical biblical prophesy. Nor does this book tell a dark tale of a private investigator,...