Sarah Leamy

STAY is a hybrid visual story of a British tomboy & clown negotiating place/identity, trauma/neurodiversity, friendship/play, sexuality, and violence. Mixing illustration, photography, and narrative non-fiction, this experimental work transcends the binary, bravely imagining a world that makes space for all of us. What happens when an awkward and shy tomboy doesn't always feel safe at home or at school? Leamy has fantasies of another life-and at 18 she finally takes flight. She leaves her small town to study languages and migration patterns in London before setting out with a rucksack, teddy bear (John), and juggling toys to hitch across Europe and the States. Leamy begins to wonder: Will she ever find her people, her place, her purpose? Or will each new home be forever as inconsistently hospitable as the first?

"Wry, wise and humorous, these charming sketches offer a captivating look at the world through the eyes of dogs, Harold and Rosie, along with monkeys, mice, a turtle, a fire ant and one pet writer. Gritty and heartening, these fables give us a magical look at critters, creativity and life itself."-Denise Ryan (award-winning journalist and essayist)"Unconditional love for animals, art, words, and weirdness-a treat for us good humans."-Kayleigh Marinelli (The Fantastic Fabricated Life of Lyle Parker)"Here is a mad romp into the lives of animals that has elevated this human's consciousness to the point of bursting with sight and sound, taste and smell-what it is to touch the world in a more pure way; a work of expansive, fundamental empathy."-Miriam McEwen (Editor at South Carolina Review and the Swamp)"Genuine animal-sprinkled stories that will suck you in."-Gina Tron (Employment)

From Devil's Party Press, publishers of the award-winning anthologies EQUINOX, SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, and SOLSTICE, comes a new collection of 55 short stories, poems, and reflections. From the introduction: "The authors we publish are the voices of experience, of triumph, of tragedy, and of life. They're bad-asses, one and all. WHAT SORT OF FUCKERY IS THIS? is a celebration of their unique badassery. INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL FOLLOWING WORKS: - The Fuckery of It All: An Introduction by Dianne Pearce - I am the man who yells at his wife, "Bitch, I'll put a cap in your ass " by Bill Ayres - If You're Going Through Hell, Go Through the Back Room by Maureen McVeigh - The Last Lootenant Wins His Fuckin' Medal by William F. Crandell - Not Getting Flirted With at the Fucking Gym by John Sheirer - How the Fuck Are You? by Judith Speizer Crandell - Hell No We Won't Go by David W. Dutton - What the Fuck: Monday Morning Strike by Claire McCabe - Sonnet for Shitty, Rotten Love by Claire McCabe - Those Damned Sunday Vices: View from the Third Floor by Claire McCabe - One Badass Snowflake by Lisa Fox - He's My Man, Damn It by Liliana Widocks - I Fuck Men Up by Laura Nelson - A Fucking Catastrophe by V.L. Brunskill - Dear Beguiling Fifth of Vodka, or, Oh Shit, What Really Happened the Night I Claimed I Got So Sick Because I Ate a Hotdog at My Girlfriend's Graduation Party Given by Her Parents by Alice Morris - Hot Damn, if Only That Painter Had Not Gotten Out of Bed by Alice Morris - Damn, the Problem With the Word French Fries by Alice Morris - Don't Be a Bitch by David Sturm - Screwed by a Lake Trout Called Sir Jack by Sarah Leamy - My Old Cock Blues by William Butler - When Cornholing Wasn't a Game by William Butler - A Tattooed Asshole by William Butler - Cock Tale, Dick Dialogue, Penis Patter by Felix Pire - Shitty Mushrooms by Philippa Hawley - Unnatural Shitbags by Carolyn Colburn - Another Day at the Fucking Office by Krystina Schuler - A Meditation on Lust and the Karmic Tab for Kinky Shit by Howard Brown - Bitch Delivery for Mister Fucker by R mi Savard - Full of Shit at His Age Now by Paul Milenski - The Red Fucking Converse of Sergio Menendez by Felix Pire - Fucking Songbird by K.T. Vanderlaag - Daemon Fenroy, God of the Fucked by Janna Miller - The Shit Collector by Mark Kodama - broken as fuck by Lola Steel - 'Cause Dammit, I'm Alive by Anthony Crutcher - Huffy Wee Fuckin Bampot by Jan McGuire - For the Love of Fuck by Les Zig - "You're fucking coming to hell with me, puta" by Alberto Ambard - My Neighbor's a Fucking Monster by Andrea Goyan - Resting Bitch Face by Terri Clifton - The Self-Mindfuck by Luanne Castle - Fucking Other Men's Daughters by Mark Hein - Shakespeare, Where the Fuck Art Thou? by Paulene Turner - On Fucking Oneself by Desiree Harvey - Stop Fucking Up the Gene Pool by Noel Alcoba - Attacked by a Fucking Fish ... A Love Story by Leslie Wibberley - Wrong Fucking Number by John Sheirer - Cocksucker by Eric Machan Howd - Fucked Up Young by Eric Machan Howd - Mannish Cunt by Eric Machan Howd - The Goddamned Rug by Dianne Pearce - Old and in the Fucking Way by Andrew Paul Grell - what the fuck was i thinking? the unfortunate chest tattoo by Cortney Collins - a match made in heaven by Cortney Collins - Shit That Baby Out by Carrie Sz Keane - Never Sink, Dammit by Dianne Pearce

Sarah continues to entertain with these quirky and whimsical characters in Before Coffee/ Before Kibble. Simply drawn, insightful and empathic, her style appeals to all ages. This time in the series, the focus has shifted slightly to life with the four-leggeds, Harold, Rosie, and Stevie. Sarah is an award-winning novelist, a non-stop wanderer, and a cartoonist currently based in Vermont.