Category: News!
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Take Out – Conor Dowling
Sticky tiles clutched my soles. Nobody should have to stay here longer than five minutes. But how was it fast food if they took this long? What was even the point beyond ten minutes? The impulse was dead, like post-nut clarity. I thought about inching my way toward the door…
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Go With God – Joel Nedecky
Grandpa asked me to sit with him on the front porch. He fingered a dip out of the tin and stuffed it in his lower lip. The sun flared in the dark blue sky as a hawk soared overhead. It was too hot, and I remember sweating through my shirt.…
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It’s Pub Day!
Arcanum Fabulas: Tales Both Strange & Absurd – Bam Barrow Urban Pigs Press are delighted to announce the release of our second book Arcanum Fabulas by our very own Bam Barrow. This delightfully twisted collection will stretch your imaginations wider than you believed possible with Barrow’s trademark style. The fascinating…
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The Hunger Anthology
Urban Pigs Press is now open for submissions for our first ever charity anthology! We have decided to donate all profits from this collection to FIND -Families in Need. This Suffolk based charity is one we here at Urban Pigs Press feel very passionate about. It is our aim to help contribute…
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Ballad of a Dead Man – Tom Milani
You walk into the bar to meet your friend. You’ve known each other for twenty years, been best men at each other’s weddings, helped each other through your divorces, never gone more than a week without a text or call, completed each other’s sentences, lent each other money. Your friend…
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Not Doreen – Heather Haigh
Pausing on the doorstep, breath held, keys jangling, bold as brass in the afternoon sun, she’s here. The woman too stupid not to be. The woman who isn’t Doreen. Her natural inclination is to slide the key in silently, palming its brothers to prevent their chattering announcement. Pipe down. Shush.…
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The Pigs Press is burning!!!
Here at Urban Pigs Press, we’ve been busy putting together our second book release. I am very excited to announce the upcoming debut work of Bam Barrow. Arcanum Fabulas: Tales Both Strange & Absurd will be dropping for release in both paperback and eBook on the 12th December! This delightfully…
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The Last Party at the Death Rattle – James Maxwell
There was a strange club in the hills around Santa Cruz just a few years back. Not strange in the sense of a horrific backstory or any sightings of stray souls. Ordinarily strange. You know, the location didn’t make much sense, the paintjob was hideous, the architecture was nonsense. That…
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Urban Pigs Press reviews…
Sex Robots Must Die by A. J. Stanton Davlav is experiencing an existential crisis. He is tired of his job at the robotic sex palace, he’s in love with one of the workers, and now he’s caught up in a war between the Federal government and a group of rebels.…
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Tastemakers – Jon Doughboy
The writer crouches in a dumpster in a nondescript alley in Brooklyn, hunkering beneath a hot and sticky and seeping mound of used condoms, eggshells, grapefruit rinds, syringes, coffee filters full of artisan grounds, empty antidepressant bottles, and chicken bones stripped bare of all but their stringiest ligaments as if…
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