“Book Descriptions: A NEW MOTHER secretly bites her baby until the compulsion ruins her. AN ABANDONED ANGEL eats the trash of a small Ohio town. A SOCIAL OUTCAST spies on her neighbor's morphing body for a secret agency bent on skullduggery. A SCIENTIST suffers horrible mutations to care for a radioactive orphan. A HOPEFUL COLLEGE GRADUATE labors in an underground bunker scrubbing a giant.
In these twelve weird stories, human bodies are morphed, warped, and withered. Through love, desolation, or entropy. Through motherhood, childhood, or disease. The settings for these stories of painful transformation are often the huddled corners of the uncanny Midwest, but the changes are always happening on the body in pain.
OH PAIN is a collection of humor and despair from the author of the cosmic horror novella THE NOTHING THAT IS.
“Winkler serves up Midwest weirdness and body horror unlike any I’ve encountered before. His characters, crafted with wit and compassion, lead fully dimensional lives on the page. There’s no denying that OH PAIN is an absolute pleasure.”
— Eric Raglin, author of Nightmare Yearnings and host of The Cursed Morsels Podcast” DRIVE