ANC 004

12 Month Subscription

For the meager sum of $1 per month, ten strangers will burst through the agonizing minutiae of your daily ephemeral slog via an attractive, accordian-fold artifact. This jolt of simplicity will arrive when you least expect and most need it. Time and space will hold their breath as you ponder and appreciate a year of smallness. Do you have any idea how much a stamp costs? You should probably do this.

If you are ordering Shepherd's Check for a loved one, please let us know. Stately gift cards are available to present to the lucky beneficiary. Commemorate your decency!

Twelve handmade, numbered microzines delivered over the course of a year
$12 (US postage paid)

ANC 003
An Implausibility of Gnus
Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf

An Implausibility of Gnus is the product of Bengelsdorf’s compulsive pick-pocketing from the coats of the American psyche. Over 30 short and shorter stories pack into the collection, each revealing sparkling tidbits of the ordinary or ordinary disclosures of the fantastical: kitchen slop and siphonophores, travel and murder. Connect the dots if you care to, or just marvel at the rounded corners and think about swimming.

Numbered box of handmade cards, books, and "ketchup"
$10 (US postage paid)

ANC 003 is out of print. If you are losing sleep over it, please let us know. Would purchasing a copy make your life complete? Our fingers are in the general vicinity of a shiny button that reads "make a few more".

ANC 002
"Kill Marguerite"
Megan Milks

Megan Milks, a true gem in the Chicago literary scene, marks a new kind of daring with her chapbook, "Kill Marguerite." The story runs with its variations on a theme and bends them with a retro twist: life in an old school video game. The result is a fresh, entertaining story with a heroine the reader lives and dies with, again and again, while continually forgetting that she is nothing but a pixelated image on a screen, whose volition is tied to the trivial push of an A or B button.

64 pages, handmade and numbered
$7 (US postage paid)

ANC001
Amicability
A Light Sleeper

What’s a person to do when he wants to shout, but all he can muster is a whisper?

Not so much defying genre as politely brushing it aside, Amicability captures a band growing into its identity while simultaneously attempting to challenge (and even subvert) that very identity. Despite the sometimes tight confines, ideas are allowed plenty of breathing room—they ebb and they flow, as ominous crescendos placidly give way to lilting, waltz-like cadences. Long and strange conversations to melt your face slowly. Own this.

1. For Lovers, All is Beauteous
2. In Praise of 4-letter Words (MP3)
3. Diazepam
4. Senseless Sentiments
5. To Be Too Good for One’s Own Good
6. Everything as You and I Know It
7. Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been
8. A Curious Preoccupation

CD in numbered, handmade packaging
$10 (US postage paid)