Fetty on the Switches

David Simmons is the author of the fantastically bizarre Ghosts of Baltimore duology, where the supernatural and strange grapple with the ever present past of East and West Baltimore. His work has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Washington Post, Brooklyn Vol. 1, Another Chicago Magazine, Hobart, and elsewhere. He is a regular contributor to Books to Prisoners, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster a love of reading behind bars, encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-empowerment, and break the cycle of recidivism. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and three daughters.

"These 21 gritty stories from Simmons abound with edgy characters whose desperate circumstances lead inevitably to dark and dismal fates. Simmons leavens the grimness with liberal doses of graveyard humor that give even the tersest entries an oddball appeal. The result is sure to be a hit with fans of short, sharp shockers." —Publishers Weekly"Simmons’s writing is witty and sardonic, and utterly insane without losing lucidity." —FanFiAddict"David Simmons is the gunpowder priest of wild shit. Smart, fun, and dangerous, his stories are like if Galaxy Gas and Borges cowrote a novel in neon lights. Fetty on the Switches sizzles and awes." —Brian Allen Carr, author of Opioid, Indiana and Bad Foundations"Simmons's debut collection is a song of poisoned bodies, laser-focused on those who’ve been irreversibly contaminated by their environments, their peers, their selves. It’s vicious, whip smart, fucking hilarious, and just might break your heart. Not to put too fine a point on it: Simmons is one of the most exciting authors working today, genre or otherwise. Don’t sleep." —B.R. Yeager, author of Negative SpacePrevious Praise"David Simmons is the most exciting, wildest writer I've come across in years. He'll make you wince from horror, laugh from dialogue, and then, when you're distracted by eldritch gods and conceptual madness, he'll emotionally gut you. One of the very best." —e. rathke, author of Howl and Glossolalia"These stories will cut you with a surgeon’s precision and unearth emotions you didn’t even know were lying dormant." —Grant Wamack, author of Bullet Tooth"David Simmons burst on the scene with a voice so confident and precise that he must have honed it in a past life. He will be one of the greats. I have no doubt about that." —J. David Osborne, author of Dying World and War in Heaven"Not since Vonnegut has there been a more distinct and perfect alchemy of absurdism, heart, and intellect than in the work of David Simmons." —Kelby Losack, author of Mercy and Letting Out The Devils"Simmons replicates the experience of stress into a surrealism of violence. Not a portrait of evil but of its consequences." —O.F. Cieri, author of Backmask