All proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the National Network to End Domestic Violence. The Whumpy Printing Press presents Hurt and Comfort: A Whump Anthology . Whump: A genre of fiction that involves hurting fictional characters. It often also involves the comforting of those characters, but not necessarily. Collected in this anthology are over two dozen whump stories from the whump writers of the internet. From vampires to mers to supervillains and more, these stories deliver a hell of a punch. And a lot of whumperflies.