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Notes From a Monkey With a Hand Grenade is a collection of horror and dark short comic stories written by Steven Prouse in collaboration with seventeen amazing creators and illustrators. Initially released in 2010, this re-release is the collection's first time in print in more than a decade.

• Blue: Originally a dialogue-free script challenge, Blue follows a girl on her road toward brutal justice after witnessing her mother's murder.
• Born Again: An inmate on his last walk to the electric chair is one priest's last chance to save a soul. But, is it a soul that wants, or needs, to be saved?
• Hand Me Downs: On her final mission, one superhero re-lives the event that set her on her heroic path.
• The Ride: Savannah: An officer is in over his head as he faces drug-induced spirits and a cult leader in Savannah, GA, and a young woman experiencing visions follows the call of a dead girl to her killer.
• Mommy Said: A latch-key kid left alone on mom's date night reflects on the many contradictory parental mandates he has endured. One of those things turns out to be a deadly lie. 
• CtrlAltDel: Bobby: With the world rebooted under a mysterious pulse that destroyed every electrical machine, society collapses around one man living in Atlanta.
• The Dancer: From a ripped-from-the-headlines collection inspired by a Canadian pig farming serial killer who feeds his victims to his livestock, a woman dining on a barbeque sandwich is influenced by a murdered woman of the night to find and care for the daughter she left behind. 
• Graffiti: A mysterious veiled stranger paints a portrait of rolling hills on the walls of a tunnel and leads the unhoused taking shelter there into paradise.
• K.I.P: The World Askew: Grappling over an untranslated ancient text unravels Dr. Jennifer Meaus' life.
• K.I.P: Breaking the Seal: Aradia and Cernunnos journey deep under the Hindu Kush mountains following a dark guru. 

Publication Date: Nov 12, 2023

ISBN-13: 979-8372541276

Pages: 225

Cover by: Dre Lopez

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