Recipes for Grief by Jonathan Wlodarski is the fourth chapbook in Abode's 2025-2026 lineup and is officially available for pre-order! All orders will be shipped by late September. There are only 100 copies of this chapbook available, so make sure to get your copy while you can! Request to review this book here.
 
Book Description: 
 
Not all hunger can be satisfied by food. 
 
Recipes for Grief by Jonathan Wlodarski is a collection of three surreal stories where food and mourning become inseparable. In "The Cake," a funeral cake slowly drives an isolated town to sacrifice itself for one more taste. In "Spider Lung," a caterer who coughs up spiders confronts grief, illness, and the limits of medicine must decide how he wants to face his own death. In "The Bread and the Bird," a son struggles to preserve his family's magical bakery while caring for his abusive, dying father. Through strange, unsettling worlds, these stories explore what we consume to survive loss as well as what loss asks us to surrender. Recipes for Grief is a meditation on death, family, hunger, and the ways we nourish ourselves when comfort is no longer enough.
 
About the Author: Jonathan Wlodarski is a graduate of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His book Love Letters to a Future Ice Age is forthcoming from Sundress Publications. His work has appeared in F(r)iction, Foglifter Journal, and The Forge Literary Magazine, among other venues.
 
Praise for Recipes for Grief
 
"Wlodarski recognizes the quiet alchemical power of both baking and grief. In these stories, simple ingredients and complex emotions rise and fall under the ceaseless rhythm of the everyday. Here, sacrifice is the bloody machinery of magic. What transforms the soul of the afflicted becomes an irresistible craving to the consumer, a bittersweet flavor that once tasted, will linger forever on the tongue." — Casey Hannan, author of Mother Ghost and The Three Woes
 
 
Publication Date: 9/15/2026
Copies will officially be distributed in late September.