Category: News!
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Prim and Proper – Edward Hagelstein
The arrangement regarding domestic chores had always been this: I took care of the outside and my wife, fondly known as Cheeky by most, was responsible for the inside. And that worked for years, until we retired within months of each other. Cheeky, whose real name is, or was, Clarice,…
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BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO – Kurt Newton and L. L. Soares
“So, Marty, I was watching this program on the TV the other day… you know, one of those medical shows? They said the eardrum is one of the most painful places on the human body,” Big Phil said as he held a kidnapped man down and plunged a Philips screwdriver…
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Dead Rats in a Bag – Virginia Betts
(A young ‘Hoagie’ story, from the ‘burnt lungs and bitter sweets’ tales by Virginia Betts) ‘Kecks! Kecks!’ Hoagie was yelling from the bottom of the ladder staircase in the split level flat. ‘What are you doing in there? I need to get in.’ Kecks heard him yelling but she was…
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The Knowledge – Terry Holland
‘The Instructor’ sizes me up: big, sallow face incongruous behind a pair of bright blue eyes that are grotesquely enlarged by the thick lenses of a pair of heavy framed spectacles. Twin TV screens broadcasting the All-Seeing Eye. Double vision. Myopic as hell. But wide open for all that. Unblinking.…
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Urban Pigs Press reviews…
Weston-super-Nightmare: A Hellbent Riff Raff Thriller by John Bowie ‘Bristol builders, sparkies, carpet fitters and plumbers face-off London gangsters in a Wild West showdown…’ A Classic Crime Pulp-Noir… in Weston The Hell’s Belles was Jimi’s bar. A retirement gift to himself after a hard life’s graft and no one owned…
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Iklil And The Punk – Jay Passer
She was Turkish, which explains the weird name. Iklil, really? Does that even mean anything? Yeah, she said, it’s Urdu. Muslim. It means crown, or garland. She was tall, unnecessarily. We were at the Kennel. When weren’t we at the Kennel? We drank, snorted speed, and shot pool at the…
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Submissions open!
Urban Pigs Press is now open for submissions in short and flash fiction ranging from 500 words to 2500 max. To celebrate our first book release we are looking for stories relating to the above call “Life in Dirt”. We are open to a wide range of genres but find that CRIME,…
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Neighbourhood Watch – Colin Leonard
My friend Mike was a tough guy with a temper that he always had to take out on someone. It had gotten him into trouble in the past. As he got older, had a family, bought a house, his temper didn’t dissipate but he managed to find more useful places…
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Tracheotomies – Stephan Zguta
The red sedan idled between two white lines on the chipped blacktop of a parking lot across from the 7-Eleven. A placard on a green pole read, “All vehicles towed at owner’s expense.” There used to be a video rental place at the far end of the lot. Eventually, it…
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The Pressure On My Heart – Mark McConville
I salute the picture of you on the wall. A single nail keeps it ascended, straight and vibrant enough for me to see your sublime features. In my dreams, this picture has been tarnished by fidgety hands, ripped apart, and thrown into a coal fire which rages on. Those dreams,…
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