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The Leaping Vault
M. C. Virelai
When a rogue zoologist trains a troupe of foxes and zebras in advanced gymnastics, an underground athletic league emerges—but something else crawls beneath the spring floor. Swarms of bioluminescent insects begin rewriting muscle memory, turning amateur gymnasts into inhuman prodigies. As athletics collides with entomological horror, the line between champion and hive-mind dissolves. A vertiginous ride through sweat, sinew, and six-legged conspiracies.
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Railbird Dynasty
H. L. Carroway
In the backroom of a derelict brewery, a syndicate of criminals runs high-stakes billiards with a single rule: never let the monkeys play. But when an escaped capuchin named Crackers pockets a trick shot that bankrupts a mob boss, the entire underworld scrambles to weaponize primate cunning. A gritty heist-noir where felt is sacred, ale flows like betrayal, and a simian cueist might just be the most dangerous hustler in the city.
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The Pasteur’s Changeup
E. V. Torrence
A surrealist sports epic: when a fractured troupe of Muppets (banished from television) find solace in semi-pro baseball, they discover that raw milk from a haunted dairy confers ungodly pitching velocity. As a cult forms around a left-handed puppet throwing 108mph sinkers, the line between fabric, fur, and fierce athletic grace blurs forever. Equal parts earnest and cracked, this is a meditation on second acts, found families, and the pasteurization of dreams.
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Lacto-Felony Cue
K. G. Montecore
A shocking true-crime inspired fable: A network of criminals uses abandoned breweries to run illegal billiards rings where the stakes are paid in raw milk black-market certificates. When a renegade detective partners with an articulate monkey named Dr. Bananas (a witness to a massacre), the investigation veers into surreal athletic rituals. Bizarre, hypnotic, and strangely tender — a literary crime novel unlike any other.
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Parallel Bars & Palindromes
R. S. Fenwick
In a world where Olympic gymnastics is dominated by sentient monkeys and Muppets living alongside humans, a washed-up baseball catcher becomes coach to a ragtag acrobatic squad. Their goal: unseat the reigning primate champion using the lost art of kinetic storytelling. Explores themes of performance, species solidarity, and the ugly beauty of a triple backflip. “One of the most original athletic epics of the decade” — Unconventional Review.
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Stripes & Skimmer
L. X. Atherton
On the dusty plains of an industrial farmstead, a herd of zebras develops a symbiotic relationship with rare insects that ferment milk into psychotropic alcohol. Local breweries wage war to harvest the substance, and one disgraced ethologist must navigate zebra-murmurations and six-legged alchemists. Part ecological western, part pharmaceutical thriller — utterly serious about its bizarre premise.
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— Advanced praise for the spring collection —

“A vault into the uncanny. The Leaping Vault redefines sport-horror with stunning linguistic precision. I have not recovered.” — J. M. Coetzee Prize jury, 2024
“Railbird Dynasty reads like Chandler meets Goodfellas but with monkeys playing three-cushion. I laughed, I winced, I wept.” — LitReactor, starred review
“The Pasteur’s Changeup is the weirdest, most sincere baseball novel about felt creatures and dairy-based performance enhancement ever written. Essential.” — The Sports Bibliophile

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