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Shane Filer

    Shane Filer crafts novels and comics that delve into the whimsical territory between childhood and adulthood. His narrative voice is marked by a playful, distinctive perspective, exploring the often-overlooked nuances of everyday experience. Readers are drawn to his unique humor and the charming way he examines the simple joys and quiet disappointments of life.

    Ugly Beautiful
    Cowboy & Tribe
    • 2021

      Cowboy & Tribe

      • 188 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Strangers at a crossroads meet in an airport. A killer couple on the prowl contemplate myriad murderous choices. Anex-Confederate soldier seeks revenge and redemption across time. An art-terrorist unveils her ultimate work. A writerspends a day living as art-lit wunderkind Milan Kundera. A teenager goes on the run with a pickled, talking fetus in a jar…Atoms crash together, orbit, intertwine and dissolve. Games, fantasies, and schemes abound while people react instrange and varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses and psychological disintegrationCowboy & Tribe is an anthology of paradoxes. Absurd, poignant and disconcerting, each story touches on loneliness, the search for happiness, and the often extreme measures necessary to achieve it.

      Cowboy & Tribe
    • 2019

      Ugly Beautiful is an anthology of paradoxes. Absurd, poignant and disconcerting, each story touches on loneliness, the search for happiness, and the often extreme measures necessary to achieve it. A youtuber at a crossroads, a killer couple on the prowl, an art-terrorist unveiling her greatest work, a sister facing unbearable loss, a teenager with a pickled, talking foetus in a jar...Lyrical and dark, mixing black humour with the humanity of every day, Ugly Beautiful is a set of stories which will linger long after the final page is closed.

      Ugly Beautiful