Category: News!
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Words don’t belong behind bars
The Pigs Visit Prison Today EDIT – ***This post has been awaiting approval for understandable reasons***, myself and Bam accompanied the newest member of UPP, Virginia Betts to a UK prison. We were asked to run a workshop and talk about indie publishing. All the joys, pitfalls and opportunities it…
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Release date!
Cover art by Jo Andrews Robinson Crusoe Maybe Colin Gee The tide is nigh! C’mon me hearties and all the Pieces of Eight you can think of. That’s right, Colin Gee’s crazy, hilarious and outright brilliant book is upon us. Never has something so unoriginal been so uniquely original. Gee…
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Disulfiram – Zakary Fekete
Each morning, my wife stands by the sink. I place the small white pill on my tongue, swallow two mouthfuls of water, then open my mouth…tongue raised, mouth empty. Some mornings we say nothing. Other mornings, she asks if I slept well. Either way, this quiet ritual has become our…
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Glutton like the Doo-Dah Man – Jon Gluckman
On jobs, I drive because Demetrius, Sal, and Vinny say I’m too fat to run. I’d weigh them down. They gotta point, but it hurts. I wait in the Charger. Don’t go into the paymaster’s office. Sit behind the wheel. Miss out, and get Twinkie all over my balaclava, waiting.…
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The Creation of Adam – Tabitha Bast
If you don’t know Etchy, you’ll know someone like him. He’s in the corner of the pub when we enter, and I put on a smile that’s tight around the edges. Etchy’s a couple of pints in already, though whatever he used to buy those will inevitably dry up on…
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Poetry by Nick Romeo
Today I Can’t Read your poetry or your messages I moved them all to a floppy disk Then placed that item in the attic To be nibbled by the rats and bats But I apologize for torturing the animals I will make it up to these cuties By letting them…
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Pink Tide – Paige Johnson
Some people say they lose their spark with the end of an era, an addiction, but I lost my shadow. I stare up at dusk’s spiral clouds like I’m waiting for a cyclone that won’t come. Like I’m a fiend for the fervor of wind and hail storms, yet I’ve…
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The Long Hike – Jody Wenner
As the garage door inched upward, it revealed the collection of a life complete. Boxes, bins, bags. A vignette of time represented by poorly labelled mementoes now piled in a dank, musty storage space. While my heart broke, my brother, standing beside me, let out an anguished moan as the…
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Restoration Hotwire – Scott MacLeod
Aldo slid into the driver’s seat. Brought the sweet new Volvo to a low purr. He was on a tight time schedule but couldn’t resist leaning back and breathing in that new car smell. Marvelled that his career had brought him to this place where he’d be sitting in a rig…
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Subway Stare –Amy Grech
George Gage sits in silent judgement, watchful hazel eyes keenly focused on a woman sitting next to him on the crowded, Manhattan-bound R train as it rumbles through tunnels threatening to crumble, stopping at pre-determined destinations, passengers come and go, silent spectators traversing the bustling corporate landscape. Keeping pace in…
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