Former victim’s rights lawyer Brittany Micka-Foos is releasing her newest release, It’s No Fun Anymore, a collection of powerful short stories, on June 17th, 2025.
Micka-Foos, a published short-story writer, stuns readers with her stories that survey the dark, but impactful, minds and issues faced by women. She weaves her stories in a way that makes you question your own experience and perspectives on topics you thought you were sure about previously.
“Alternating between poignant, grim, and sometimes haunting stories, It’s No Fun Anymore cuts to the core of all our deepest fears on 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,” says Alexandria Faulkenbury, author of Somewhere Past the End.
It’s No Fun Anymore is available at your local bookstore, in addition to Amazon.
Description:
“It’s No Fun Anymore” is a collection of eight stories that explore the politics of victimization, the sites of trauma on women’s bodies, and their attempts to divine meaning from suffering. In “The Experiment,” the murder of a young girl prompts a stay-at-home mother to undertake a desperate bid for agency, drawing unlikely inspiration from a 1950s self-help book. An MLM saleswoman in “Border Crossings” is held captive at the Canadian border, and in her marriage. And “Thumb Stump” introduces a new mother, who worries her baby will inherit both her perceived deformity and generational trauma. These stories examine the double binds of motherhood, the sham of “having it all,” the daily struggles. The centralizing thread is the question: How can trauma be transformed?
About the author:
Brittany Micka-Foos is a writer and stay-at-home mom living in the Pacific Northwest. Her shortstories, essays, and poetry have appeared in Ninth Letter, Witness, Hobart, Literary Mama, CALYX Journal, Briar Cliff Review, and elsewhere. To read more visit: www.brittanymickafoos.com.
About Apprentice House:
Apprentice House is the nation’s first and largest entirely student-managed book publisher. Students at Loyola University Maryland are responsible for every aspect of the publishing process, from acquisitions to design and publication of every book. Our mission is, first and foremost, to educate students about the book publishing process. As a program within the Communication Department at Loyola University Maryland, it is driven by student work conducted in four courses: Introduction to Book Publishing, Manuscript Acquisitions and Development, Book Design and Production, and Book Marketing and Promotion. Students in these courses serve as staff in Apprentice House’s acquisitions, design, and marketing departments, respectively.
