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PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME

stories by Jaret Ferratusco

$14.00, 134 pages (trade paperback)

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With these twelve stories, Jaret Ferratusco presents unsettling vignettes of people existing at the very fringes of self, society, and reality. Through investigations of the psychology of seemingly ordinary individuals –from the haunted confines of childhood to the void of isolation in adult life– these stories offer harrowing glimpses of a hidden world around us –a world that for some becomes inescapably and horribly real.

In the tradition of the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME presents the reader with narratives that pit the conceits of the everyday and tactile world against an encroaching and undefined menace of horror and the macabre in a struggle for sanity, identity, and survival.

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THE DOG AT THE SIGNPOST

a novel by Eric Glick

$14.00, 204 pages (trade paperback)

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Joe Berzinski lives in a state of perpetual malaise, drifting from the confines of his home, to the drone of his working day, to casual encounters with acquaintances. The plodding rhythm of this existence is set off kilter after meeting Reed Devonshire, an enigmatic stranger whose continuing and unexplained presence in all aspects of Berzinski’s life carries with it a disquieting air of foreboding and a constricting sense of dread.

THE DOG AT THE SIGNPOST is an exploration of the rifts in one man’s identity, as well as a study in the unspoken, unknown connections that have both the power to bind any group of people together and to leave them isolated forever.

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EMOTIONLESS SOULS

stories by David S. Grant

$13.00, 100 pages (trade paperback)

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Disaffected tourists idle through the streets and bars of Paris and Dublin. Office workers suspect each other of stealing cocaine at the Christmas party. Human Resource officers interview the stripper they frequent for a position in the firm (or at least they think it’s that stripper). Pickpockets get pick-pocketed. Nobodies stage emergencies to save the day. Mediocre porn stars murder their co-stars to increase DVD rentals. Executives drop Ecstasy during the board meeting and realize their affection for the touch of their supervisor’s shirt. Comics drop shrooms in the restaurant’s sauce to get laughs from even the toughest of Monday night crowds.

Jerk offs, ex-cons, new cons, pranksters, one hit wonders, and homeless entrepreneurs are the EMOTIONLESS SOULS that populate the twenty stories in this collection by David S. Grant (author of Corporate Porn and The Last Breakfast).

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THE LAST BREAKFAST

a novella by David S. Grant

$13.00, 90 pages (trade paperback)

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In sparse, unsparing prose, THE LAST BREAKFAST details forty-eight hours in the life of a disaffected and utterly amoral man. His plan is simple: murder his unfaithful wife. The complications being with a botched drug deal, the shooting of several policemen, and an ill fated border crossing into Tijuana with his pill popping partner Ordel.

A dark and vicious story set at breakneck speed, David S. Grant’s novel is a portrait of a world adrift in disillusion and betrayal in which their exists neither good nor evil, only the brutal reality of consequence.

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RED CROWS

a novel by L.A. Wilson

$14.00, 160 pages (trade paperpack)

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Christian Jharr awakes with no memory in the pristine world of the Aurora Dome. His only companions are Carolina, an obsolete model android, and Simone Cady, a mysterious woman who claims he is a criminal, imprisoned for an offense she either cannot or will not name. Given the directive to open the Black Box, a completely solid object with a flawlessly smooth surface, he is told that only when this box is opened will any of them be able to return to Earth. But as his memory slowly begins to stir, so do thoughts of violence, distrust, and the sense that he may be something much different from what he has been told.

At once intimate and hauntingly abstract, RED CROWS is L.A. Wilson’s science fiction vision of the limits of human evolution and a resonating fable of identity, passion, and loss.

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OUR MACHINERY

a novel by Thais Miller

$14.00, 132 pages (trade paperback)

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In Thaïs Miller’s dark fable of apathy, self destruction, and redemption a machine is invented that converts the flesh of living human beings into a source of energy capable of powering the world. First used as a means of capital punishment, the machine is soon put to use on ‘volunteers’: the terminally ill, the disenfranchised, the starving and helpless, those who feel they could do better for the ones they love by trading their flesh for monetary compensation. And as rumors spread that death by the machine produces a euphoria beyond imagination, people begin willfully sacrificing themselves to it by the hundreds of thousands.

OUR MACHINERY is the story of one woman’s attempts to stop the spread of the machine, to end the swell of suicide in the name of survival, and to find solace in a world descending more and more into amorality, hopelessness, and chaos.

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FIGMENTS OF CALCULATION

a novel by Pablo D'Stair

$14.00, 194 pages (trade paperback)

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FIGMENTS OF CALCULATION takes the form of a relentlessly vulgar and bitterly detailed monologue delivered by a failed writer. Recounting the frustrations of failing to complete dozens of novels, he interlaces intimate reminiscences of random moments of his life, descriptions of the physical act of writing, and flailing explanations of the unwritten novels’ plots, themes, characters, styles, and purposes into a brutal confession of self hatred.

Pablo D’Stair’s first novel is a guttural representation of the isolation of an artist from the expression of their ideas, of a man from his own desires, and an evocation of the profound fear and helplessness of the individual.

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BREAD AND SALT AND TEETH AND TONGUE

a novel by Pablo D'Stair

$14.00, 132 pages (trade paperback)

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A graphic portrayal of aimless, inarticulate anger, resentment, and hatred Bread And Salt And Teeth And Tongue follows a young man from day job to train commute, to night job to train commute, and through sleep deprived encounters with lovers, acquaintances, and strangers, unflinchingly detailing his detachment, lack of purpose, and snarling inner monologue.

Disquieting and relentlessly vulgar in its prose, this novel from Pablo D’Stair (author of Figments Of Calculation) attempts to delineate an existence between conscious and unconscious, identity and expression, and offers an unapologetic rendering of the individual devoid of hope.

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