It's No Fun Anymore is a haunting collection of eight stories, reaching into the darkest corners of modern womanhood to illuminate themes of trauma, identity, and the elusiveness of safety in our capitalist society. 

A stay-at-home mother takes inspiration from a 1950s self-help book in a desperate attempt to reclaim her agency. A marriage implodes under the weight of a shampoo-sales pyramid scheme. The specter of generational trauma haunts a new mom in the delivery room. These stories juxtapose the everyday with the uncanny across diverse territories, from anime conventions to kindergarten classrooms. The result is an eerie familiarity, an intensity that lingers long after the final page.

Advance Praise for It’s No Fun Anymore:

"It's No Fun Anymore is a bracing read, a fearless collection that's willing to get weird and push the boundaries. These stories are incisive and visceral depictions of mothers on the brink. Each one digs into the real, beating heart of its characters, in all their messiness, anger, and humor. Brittany Micka-Foos is a gifted writer with an eye for the little details that make stories come alive."

—Tom McAllister, author of How to Be Safe 

“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

“Literary in its language, astute in its psychological contrasts and considerations, and hard-hitting in its diverse examples of women under psychological siege, It's No Fun Anymore is thoroughly engrossing and completely empowering.”

— D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

Brittany’s prose poetry chapbook, a litany of words as fragile as window glass, is available to order from Bottlecap Press.

a litany of words as fragile as window glass examines life in the aftermath of a suicide. Weaving in and out of memories, traveling through time, these prose poems are an inquiry into the life of a brother, an attempt to piece together a narrative and illuminate the legacy of trauma that precedes—and endures after—suicide.

This collection interrogates the limitations of language in the face of grief: the ways in which words fall short, the seeming futility of conveying such a personal and tragic loss, and the enduring necessity of the attempt.

Anthologies and Multi-Author Collections

Between Fact & Fiction (Whatcom Writes anthology), available at Village Books

Not a Trace and The False Portrait, published by SCARS

Blanket Stories, published by Ragged Sky Press

Preorder It’s No Fun Anymore at Village Books