Category: News!
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Them’s the Breaks – Alaco Doyle
‘Aww, look at them…’ Suzy swivelled her phone a semi-circle and shoved it under Tessa’s nose. The accompanying waft of patchouli offended her nostrils. An unwilling audience, Tessa nevertheless looked in the direction of the screen, where a mass of Golden Retriever puppies writhed beside an indifferent bitch, each of…
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Toxicology – Ian Johnson
The plastic police tape flutters like a hummingbird’s heart. I stoop underneath, slopping through the fetid water, into the chasm of a storm drain. My brother-in-law, Detective Grimley, chops me in the chest. It burns – that Faustian rush – the towel whippings from my bully, Chase Dankworth, in those…
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The Incredible Disappearing Woman – Madeleine Armstrong
Peter suggested going to see the magician. Illusionist, he called him, but it’s still the same old tricks. Something to while away the empty hours in our empty nest, I supposed. I wasn’t sure it was my kind of thing, but I agreed anyway; I’d just been reading a magazine…
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The Okayest Boy in the World – Jill Williams
It was 1981. I had Tina Turner hair and a body designed for sin. I caught every boy’s eye, but still saw myself as loose dirt covering a sinkhole. I was destined for a fall. Been told that since I was five. Reckless, impulsive, never listened, yadda, yadda, same old…
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The Croaking Season – Swetha Amit
After he was laid off that summer, Dad began to shrink. The first thing to change was his voice. When he addressed me, he cleared his throat often, each cough deeper than the last. Mom blamed it on allergies, and Dad blamed it on the heat. But I noticed other…
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Liechtenstein Mountain Marathon
Is it the end of the road for our two good-spirited gents? Or just the end of my endless hill puns? Somehow, I think this blog has grown some legs and not just in the muscle department. Either way, this has been an incredible achievement by these absolute legends. Well…
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Short Story Subs Open: Transformation
Urban Pigs Press is open for short story submissions! Mark Burrow will be running this one and the topic of choice is ‘Transformation’. Prose only submissions should be between 500 and 1,500 words. Please email Mark at urbanpigsguest@outlook.com with the title ‘Transformation’ and attach your prose submission as a Word…
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10% off Summer Lit List – The Camera Obscure by Virginia Betts
Slip into a supernatural world of gothic pastiche in a collection of bone-chilling stories that blend the familiar and strange. Betts combines the horror of Poe, the darkness of Stevenson and the wit of Dickens to explore the spectres that lurk within us all and leaves the reader haunted. “Betts…
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10% off Summer Lit List – Gutter Punch by A.J. Stanton
Sam Carter’s new job as a private investigator is going to get him killed. The Hollywood sex scandals and all night partying might be exciting, but now the tabloid newspapers are after him, not to mention the deranged thugs. And that’s just his first week. Welcome to the world of…
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10% off Summer Lit List – Driver by Sebastian Vice
Rick Malone is dying, but not before one last ride. Travel with him through the seedy underworld of pimps, crooked cops and broken dreams in this transgressive noir novella. Driver should appeal to fans of James Sallis (Drive), as well as Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?Deeply introspective, Vice drags the rotting…
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