“In the beginning there was trouble and it remained there all my life.” Wilson rolled the paper out of the typewriter carriage and called Kendall, his partner, over to check it out. “Looks like a suicide note to me,” Kendall said around the cigar in the corner of his mouth. He pushed his sleeve back […]
Mack trained for the moment since he was old enough to hold up his grandad’s .22 rifle taking out bottles and rabbits. He aced the classes. Received high marks from the instructor–a retired sheriff hell bent on instilling the Second Amendment remained intact. He positioned his feet like a boxer sparring for a title fight. […]
Home invasion sounded so aggressive. Grievous. Especially when the house in question was a place he had been before. Denning parked his liquorsickle on the curb a few mailboxes down. He had been casing the spot for a few weeks. Knew it would be vacant at this hour. The current occupant, a young woman, worked […]
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 […]
