‍Periodic Table of the Elephants | print
at 118els.com
by Bry O’Shaughnessy
This piece is discovered by Wish Bernum in the map room of Rabbit’s lodge in Bern O’Shaughnessy’s novel Wish.

Wish | novel
unpublished, 210K words.
‍by Bern O’Shaughnessy
‍When Wish Bernum’s Alzheimer’s-ridden mother vanishes from her nursing home and turns up behind the wheel of a supercharged vintage 1936 Pierce Arrow that hit a moose at 135 mph, it’s up to him to find the mysterious parties kidnapping and killing old people in apt and spectacular ways all across the country.

William Blake’s Tube Map of Hell, 21c. | print
by Nog O’Shaughnessy
This is another item hanging on the wall i Rabbit’s map room, alongside the elephants print.

Bark Mice | novel
unpublished, 240K words
by Bern O’Shaughnessy writing as Wish Bernum
Eight preternaturally intelligent mice paddle an egg carton thirty miles down a small southeastern Wisconsin river, facing owls, cats, winter, and the limits of their understanding, as they seek to deliver a dying creature’s urgent plea for help.

Yeats’s Vision & Destiny Sorter-Outer | print
in progress
by Bry O’Shaughnessy
Large-format disinformation graphic collaboration between Nog O’Shaughnessy and Bry O’Shaughnessy explicating William Butler Yeats’s vision of the 28 possible human destinies, based on the moon’s phases, as illustrated after a chance meeting in 1931 with a young Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss).

‍Pluck  | novel
in final drafts, 107K words
by Tommy Gilboy
‍What if one man sought to yank away all our fig leaves, exposing all our hidden desires and shames, and discovers the means to do so? A techno-thriller copied and pasted from today’s ledes, Dunts follows the exploits of Peter Quince—a mashup of Steve Jobs, P.T. Barnum, and Edward Snowden—who threatens to make public the secrets of every last person who’s ever touched a digital device.

Frye’s Potato Chip of Literature | print
by Nog O’Shaughnessy
in progress
Large-format disinformation graphic depicting literary critic Northrop Frye’s structure of the whole of literature as a three-dimensional hyperbolic paraboloid. (Think of a Pringles® chip extending beyond its edges endlessly.)

Other Clocks | novel
by Tommy Gilboy
abandoned at 130K words
‍The O’Shaughnessy brothers—Nog, Fergus, Bern, Michael, Bry, and Pad—in their adolescence granted one wish apiece by the pookas, learn that desire alone is not a good compass, though it’s not the worst of beginnings.