It's No Fun Anymore
by Brittany Micka-Foos
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Pub Date Jun 17 2025 | Archive Date Mar 01 2025
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Description
“It’s No Fun Anymore” is a collection of eight stories that explore the politics of victimization, the sites of trauma on women’s bodies, and their attempts to divine meaning from suffering.
In “The Experiment,” the murder of a young girl prompts a stay-at-home mother to undertake a desperate bid for agency, drawing unlikely inspiration from a 1950s self-help book. An MLM saleswoman in “Border Crossings” is held captive at the Canadian border, and in her marriage. And “Thumb Stump” introduces a new mother who worries her baby will inherit both her perceived deformity and generational trauma.
These stories examine the double binds of motherhood, the sham of “having it all,” the daily struggles. The centralizing thread is the question: How can trauma be transformed?
Advance Praise
“In Brittany Micka-Foos’s extremely impressive debut short story collection, younger women, wives and mothers—some married, some not—contend with their relationships with the men in their lives and, in some cases, their relationships with their own bodies. The collection delights with its subtleties, dark hints, and surprises. The author’s voice is probing, questioning, and compassionate. Every story in It’s No Fun Anymore drew me in and left me thinking and caring about the characters long after I finished the book.” — Lynn Levin, author of House Parties and The Minor Virtues
“Alternating between poignant, grim, and sometimes haunting stories, It’s No Fun Anymore cuts to the core of all our deepest fears about being a woman in the 21st century. In stark prose, Micka-Foos makes you feel the immediacy of her characters’ experience as they navigate motherhood, career, love, and getting out of bed each morning. Every story invites you to wrestle with the choices you’d make in the same situation, and that’s where the real fun begins.” — Alexandria Faulkenbury, author of Somewhere Past the End
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781627205856 |
PRICE | $16.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 124 |