Drinking Until Morning

Justin Grimbol

Black Coffee Press, LLC

An intensely moving debut collection of poems rooted in different moments of life that weave back and forth in time. Unafraid to confront the ecstatic or the brutal side of a woman's experience in love, loss and self-identity, Wielkopolan transforms these moments by using language that is alternately casual and startling, fierce and transcendent.

Border Theory

Stefanie Wielkopolan

A story of excess at its most self-destructive. Excessive drugs, sex and failure is not the usual recipe for redemption, but Bradley's narrator is hell-bent on living life his way, even if it takes a Shiva-like path of destruction to do it.

Code for Failure: A Gas Station Novel

Bradley, Ryan W.

Literature & Fiction

This epic poem begins and ends with a house exploding in Pasadena, California on June 17, 1952.  The explosion killed Jack Parsons, one of the principal founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Aerojet Corporation and co-inventor of the American rocket.  Jack Parsons, who probably knew more about explosive powders than anyone on Earth, was also an occultist and Satanist and fell in to the orbit of the Great Beast himself, Aleister Crowley.  Is it a mere coincidence that in 1942, the same year that Crowley appointed Parsons head of the Agape Lodge, Parsons made a major breakthrough in the development of rocket solid fuel?   Set against the backdrop of World War II and the race for supremacy in the air, this poem explores Jack Parsons, genius scientist by day, wild party animal by night.  The characters include famous engineer Theodore van Karman, a young L. Ron Hubbard, Wernher von Braun, and Marjorie Cameron - otherwise known as the mysterious Scarlet Woman.  Did Jack kill himself?  Was the US Government too concerned about his unearthly activities?  Or did Jack evoke sinister forces that were too much, even for him?   Matt Bialer continues to write about obscure American history and myth, and find humanity even in the most bizarre.

Black Powder

Matt Bialer

WHEN KEROSENES INVOLVED

Daniel Romo

if i really wanted to feel happy i would feel happy already

Jordan Castro

William Burroughs meets Philip K. Dick = The Song of Synth

THE SONG OF SYNTH

SEB DOUBINSKY

Richard Marzten is bored. He&#8217;s been married a long time to his considerably older wife, and if he wants to get a little action on the side, he&#8217;d better do it now, before he&#8217;s too old. But there&#8217;s a small complication &#8211;- well, more than a just small complication. While Richard is just a &#8220;nobody from nowhere,&#8221; his wife is rich. Very, very rich, and she&#8217;s made it possible for her husband to enjoy the finer things beyond his wildest imagination. There&#8217;s no way he&#8217;d ever want to lose Monica. 
 But like lots of men before him, Richard has it all figured out, and he&#8217;s not going to get caught stepping over the matrimonial line. Richard&#8217;s plan works to perfection. A personals ad for a discreet affair brings on an avalanche of responses, including one lady who stands out above all the rest &#8211;- the stunning Gretchen Trecker. Gretchen is the young wife of a wealthy &#8211;- and much older &#8211;- Long Island attorney. In other words, she&#8217;s Richard&#8217;s counterpart. She&#8217;s bored too, and soon the pair plunge headlong into an affair with &#8220;no strings attached&#8221; -- exactly what Richard Marzten desired. 
But something goes wrong. Soon after ratcheting up the pressure on Richard to see her more often, Gretchen disappears. One day he gets a phone call from a private detective demanding that they meet &#8211;- he knows exactly what&#8217;s become of Gretchen Trecker. 
 Richard Marzten will have learned that having your cake and eating it too comes with a heavy price tag indeed. 
	An intriguing page-turner, NO STRINGS is a crime novel solidly in the tradition of Jim Thompson, James M. Cain and Jason Starr.

No Strings: A Novel

SaFranko, Mark

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