The Sodium Curtain and Other Broken Realities

By Cody Poston

A surreal, darkly funny collection of sci-fi satire and absurdist short fiction.

The Sodium Curtain and Other Broken Realities is a new Dystopocon anthology from Cody Poston, featuring seventeen stories where dark humor, speculative fiction, and satire collide. Each piece begins with something ordinary: a work meeting, a childhood memory, a broken appliance, and spirals into a world that's stranger, sharper, and uncomfortably honest.

Inside these pages you'll find humorous science fiction, satirical sci-fi short stories, absurdist speculative fiction, and dark humor threaded through every surreal detour.

Stories include:

It's Easy Being Green: a fallen mascot reimagined as a fading celebrity trying to outrun his own myth.

Some Assembly Required: workplace romance and corporate nonsense collide in a lab built on bad decisions.

Lux and the Sleeping Star: a cosmic fable about loss, loyalty, and the fracture lines between worlds.

ThunderTalk Ep.139, Gilman: a paranormal radio broadcast that's equal parts hilarious and haunting.

CHiPs Happens: a cop drama unraveled into spectacular, genre-breaking chaos.

The Aquarium Broke, and So Did Time: a surreal workplace disaster that bends reality and pushes one employee too far.

POWNED: Starch, Sovereignty, and the Sodium Curtain: a snack-food rebellion that becomes a national crisis.

Talking cats, imaginary friends, cosmic anomalies, bureaucratic nightmares, and cryptids with microphones: these aren't escapes from reality. They're new ways of seeing it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G6YM5D23
• ISBN13: 9798231209156
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Toley Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"