This is a collection of stories set in a bizarre, almost believable universe. The lord of cockroaches breathes the same air as a genius teenage girl with a thing for criminals, a ruthless meat tycoon who hasn't figured out that secret gay affairs are best conducted out of town, and a telepathic bowling ball. Sit back. Scratch your head. Let the color wash over you. Enjoy the ride.

Benjamin Golden Devilhorns

Literature & Fiction

Shields, Doug

Short Stories & Anthologies

Saltimbanque Books

In "The Victim," April wants Grace to help her prosecute the guys who raped them years before. The only problem is, Grace doesn't remember things that way…. Includes other short plays, in which: A young man picks up a strange woman in a bar, only to realize she's no stranger after all; an uptight socialite learns some outrageous truths about her family; a sister stumbles upon her brother's bizarre sexual rite; a first date ends in grotesque revelations; a love potion proves all too effective; a lesbian wedding is complicated when it turns out one bride's brother used to date the other bride.

The Victim: and Other Short Plays

Boyett, J.

Dramas & Plays

Gash-Eye already thought life was hard, as the Neanderthal slave to a band of Cro-Magnons. Then zombies attacked, wiping out nearly everyone she knows and separating her from the Jaw, her half-breed son. Now she fights to keep the last remnants of her former captors alive. Meanwhile, the Jaw and his father try to survive as they maneuver the zombie-infested landscape alongside time-travelers from thirty thousand years in the future....

The Unkillables

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Part H. P. Lovecraft and part Alien, Ironheart is the story of what happens when the mining ship Canary comes across a strange derelict on the edge of the galaxy--a derelict occupied by a strange woman, a woman who cannot possibly exist but does....

Ironheart

From Long Island diners to Victorian murderers and small-town French cross-dressers, these writers and poets will transport you as far as the written word can carry you. The Saltimbanque Review: we've been putting the "er" in "literature" since 2016.

The Saltimbanque Review, Number One: Fall 2016

DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN

Hurley, Brian

Kolm, Ron

Austin, Heather

Lindgren, Michael

Roa, Amy

Rachmani, Jon

Tanner, Matt

Hahn, Douglas

It's New York in the 1990's, and every week for years Fred has cruised Port Authority for hustlers, living a double life, dreaming of the one perfect boy that he can really love. When he meets Adam, he wonders if he's found that perfect boy after all … and even though Adam proves to be very imperfect, and very real, Fred's dream is strengthened to the point that he finds it difficult to awake.

I'm Your Man

Sykes, F.

Literary

Ray Takeshi doesn’t remember his parents--they died in sorcerous battle, when he was just a baby. He’s been raised in Missouri by a mage named Ned. Ned says his Destiny approaches: a final test, to determine whether Ray will achieve manhood, or be destroyed.Just because Ray is a fledgling mage doesn’t mean he buys such mumbo-jumbo. But then the delectable succubus Melania von Fleiden shows up in town, alongside her hideous Thrall. Ray has to stop her evil plan--or die trying, at least. Could this be that test Destiny was sending? And if so, does he have the slightest chance of surviving it?

Ray Takeshi and the Medallions Of Skarth

Genre Fiction

Beth used to be a powerful witch, till a meth addiction burned her powers away. Her daughter Farrah thinks she's nothing but a loser. But Beth thinks maybe Farrah would change her mind if she had to spend a few days in her mom's shoes-and when she gets her hands on a new source of magic, she decides to make that happen?.

The Switch

Fantasy

The AI Revolution has come, and it ain’t easy for a single dad to find a decent job. Most things that a human can do, a computer can do better and cheaper. So Brad provides for his kids as best he can, using virtual reality to remote-control a sexbot in a brothel. Male, female, straight, gay: Brad the anonymous operator does it all. A man’s got to provide.But even the brothel gig is barely enough to scrape by on. So when his kids’ guidance counselor Duane shows up as a customer, Brad wonders if he can use this chance encounter to build a better future for his children?

The Sexbot

Eighth-grader Sam Peabody's boyfriend (well, not exactly boyfriend) asked her to text him a picture of her boob, so she did. But then her not-really-boyfriend didn't keep it to himself.So now her life is sorta ruined. But things will get better. After all, the civilized adults charged with Sam's care won't leave her to writhe in hell, all on account of a dumb text. Obviously.

Raw Flesh, Cold Air

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