Category: News!
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Our first release!!!
Here at Urban Pigs Press we are celebrating our first ever book release. Both editors have been working hard to make this dream a reality and we hope that this is the first of many. Our values remain the same and we are continuing to build an indie press for…
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She Comes In With The Rain – Leigh Brady
The doors swiftly shutter behind me as I thank the driver and shuffle my way down the bustling bus to find an empty seat. The bus smells stale and wet as the rain pelts the roof; the metal clank dulling into a soft thud. The cacophony of sniffles is the…
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She Comes In With The Rain – Leigh Brady
The doors swiftly shutter behind me as I thank the driver and shuffle my way down the bustling bus to find an empty seat. The bus smells stale and wet as the rain pelts the roof; the metal clank dulling into a soft thud. The cacophony of sniffles is the…
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The Broker – Ben Coppin
The broker brought him at eight, sharp. He had very little idea what to expect – a sense of safety, of finality – but no concrete understanding of how this tiny house could provide those things. The risks were so great, but he had no alternative, given how badly things…
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Pigeon – Syreeta Muir
She’s in bed, slowing herself down to one breath per five Mississippi’s. Wants to make the room disappear/reappear/disappear behind her closed eyelids, so it looks just like dusk through a black silk scarf. She’s taming the werewolf in her chest, feeling for the leash inside her that is willing her…
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Pigeon – Syreeta Muir
She’s in bed, slowing herself down to one breath per five Mississippi’s. Wants to make the room disappear/reappear/disappear behind her closed eyelids, so it looks just like dusk through a black silk scarf. She’s taming the werewolf in her chest, feeling for the leash inside her that is willing her…
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First release!
Here at Urban Pigs Press we are delighted to announce the impending release of our first book. Life in Dirt is a collection of short stories from our very own James Jenkins. As promised, we are starting small and building from there. This is why we have chosen to use…
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We are open for submissions!
Urban Pigs Press is now open for submissions in short and flash fiction ranging from 500 words to 2500 max. We are looking for stories relating to the above call “Terror in Suburbia”. We are open to a wide range of genres but find that CRIME, HORROR and GRITTY REALISM…
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Dark Edges – Mark McConville
Your world was different from mine. It had sheen, class, and you sat comfortably in it like a child who was contented, drawn to the colours of the paintings you created with optimism nipping at you. Those paintings brought out your personality more than a human being could, they made…
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Dead Swan – Virginia Betts
They found a dead swan in the river today. I was there when it happened; I’d just cut across the skate park on my way to meet my man Dave on the riverbank when this minor drama started to unfold. Like bloody Swan Lake, right there in real life. I…
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