This is the internet home of Dave Housley, author of The Other Ones, Looney, The Greys (with Becky Barnard), Howard and Charles at the Factory, Massive Cleansing Fire, This Darkness Got to Give, If I Knew the Way I Would Take You Home, Commercial Fiction, and Ryan Seacrest is Famous. 

The Other Ones

"“Dave Housley’s The Other Ones is a riotous and bighearted office comedy, about a surprising kind of Rapture where it’s not a heavenly force that whisks away half of your co-workers but a winning lottery ticket you forget to throw in on. Fans of Chris Bachelder or Sam Lipsyte will thrill as Housley applies eight point eight million dollars worth of regret to his loveable left-behind heroes, eager to learn who will crack among the cubicles and who might find another way to win their own good life.”

— Matt Bell, author of Appleseed

Massive Cleansing Fire

"Once again, Dave Housley has shaped a singular collection to dazzle and delight, this time with a tool as old as civilization itself: fire. In eight stunning stories and an equal number of interstitial vignettes, Housley wields spark and flame and smoke as plot device, metaphor and theme, while balancing his uproarious comic sense with an unerring glimpse into the human heart. Reader, Massive Cleansing Fire doesn’t care that the roof is aflame. It lets that motherfucker burn."
- Tom Williams, author of Don't Start Me Talkin' and Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales

Howard and Charles at the Factory

"Housley's a madman and his book Howard and Charles at the Factory is a pitch perfect funhouse mirror view of our ridiculous times. We're all Howard and Charles standing in front of a closed factory waiting for the world we knew to make sense. Read this in front of a shuttered factory, while looking for dinosaurs and UFOs, or just any moment you want to feel pleasure in a mad, mad world."

— Rion Amilcar Scott, author of The World Doesn’t Require You