Last year we had the privilege to publish Burning Down the House, Michel Lee Garrett’s, with T. Fox Dunham, environmental anthology to fight global warming with stories incited by The Talking Heads. This year we are equally thrilled to publish BORN A RAMBLIN’ MAN, fourteen tales of thieves, killers, vagabonds and lost souls. What to […]
When I was a boy, my father built a shed for me in the backyard. When my mom asked what it was for, he told her the garage was overflowing with junk. Sticking the mower and toolboxes out back would clear things up enough to fit the car. Keep her from burning her fingers on […]
Elwood woke up groggy and sore in a room he didn’t recognize. The pain in his right hand, red and thrumming like alternating current from a cattle fence, sobered him up. He pulled the injured hand towards his torso but was stopped short. A steel manacle cut into the carpal bones of his wrist, chain […]
The hostess looks up at me. A patina of fine fair hair over her lip is faintly visible. I ate those up. I notice everything. I see everything. I see my sister, long gone now. I didn’t mean it. I just stare. She looks perplexed. She says eventually, are you okay mister? I nod. -One, […]
Water trickles down bare brick walls. A naked bulb lights up the scene. Upstairs, the roar of a nightclub rages against the sunrise. Down here, a man in a chair, stripped to the waist. Narrow chest hitches. Blood drips from his chin, as a mouth formed of broken teeth and ragged flesh works. Me, right […]
Our newest release release brings us to the streets in a heist that can be called The Thomas Crown Affair rebooted. Dark Neon & Dirt by Thomas Trang is as Nick Kolakowski, fast and smooth. We’re excited for you to read your copy today. What to Expect inside… Shaun Nguyen is a Vietnamese war orphan […]
“Ways I see it, it’s either the moonshine or the women. I ‘spose a combination of both, rather, now that I really think about. And ol’ Honeycutt himself’s got both of em’ locked up tighter than Fort Knox round here.” The overweight and underthought Ricky Rooney paused in his instance of wisdom to deposit a […]
She woke up all buzzed wires and rough edges and stood outside Lenny’s gathering the nerve to enter. Took her four tries ‘fore she finally gathered the might but just like anything else once she’d set her mind on something there weren’t no stopping the follow through. Put one foot in front of the other […]
There’s nothing like the feeling of digging the bony ridge of my knuckles into the meat of my opponent’s organs. The pain from a liver shot takes two seconds to register, so I shuffle a step backward to wait for his nerves to fire. On cue, a grimace spreads across his face, and his knees […]
Dust came to with a headache, eyes bulging, looking at a concrete floor. Quickly realized he was hanging upside-down. He panicked a second, terrified he’d fall and crack his skull open. Tugged his hands. Couldn’t move them. Rope? He shifted his shoulders, heard clinking metal. Chains. Of course. He wouldn’t fall. Briggs wouldn’t want him […]
The kid wore hate in his eyes like shades in the summer. If you saw him standing outside the store that day, you’d have sworn he’d burn a damn hole through the door. Alfredo’s Deli was almost empty when the kid stood outside, bad motherfucker that he was, ready to make his play. See, the […]
Kelly picked up the comic book from the spinner rack in the corner of the Dash Mart. The new Spider-Man wasn’t out yet so he read Daredevil instead. Look at that cover. DD’s arm in a cast. Red costume ripped up holding his billy club. Just messed up but look whose head is twisted the […]
