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• “Cut off thy right hand if it offends thee” Brian Evenson’s Last Days

  By ericmbosarge on November 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  When a wanderer first travels to a new place, they see cultural and religious events they never expected and often find bizarre. In Garudan Thookkam, India, followers are hung from hooks to praise the God Vishnu. Judeo-Christians practice a form… Read More ›

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• Review of Resist: Tales of a Future Worth Fighting Against, edited by Gary Whitta, Christie Yant & Hugh Howey (2018)

  By John E. O. Stevens on November 8, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The subtitle above confused me at first; it sounded as if one should fight against the worthwhile future. But the editors clarify the collection’s rough theme in their Introduction: the authors “sing about a future that may be dire, but… Read More ›

• Breaking: Tom Brady Digs up Clone Corpses, Drops first Game of Season to Ravens

  By ericmbosarge on November 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  By Emilia Barrett Ben Franklin once said, “Early to be bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” In the case of Tom Brady, whose famously restrictive diet and lifestyle focuses on family and fitness first,… Read More ›

• Hungry Caterpillars and Hemingway and Horses and Men

  By editorialmonster on November 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Like many parents of small children, I have had cause to read the book THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR probably more times than I care to count. In this book, which is not very long, really, but extremely well illustrated, a… Read More ›

• A Halloween Treat from Vernacular Books

  By ericmbosarge on October 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  As of this writing, there are exactly 31 hours left to pledge your support for our first anthology The Way of the Laser: Future Crime Stories, and we’re running a special promotion for the final hours. If you donate now,… Read More ›

• Remembering the Classics: BURNING CHROME by William Gibson

  By editorialmonster on October 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  When I spent a couple months in Vancouver one summer, while writing and dogsitting and housesitting for a relative that was vacationing in Italy in this beautiful house in Vancouver, I walked around the city constantly wondering if I might… Read More ›

• Close Your Eyes by Paul Jessup

  By ericmbosarge on October 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  To read Open Your Eyes is to experience the magic of standing next to a furnace as a smith works, eyes and ears awakened to new sounds and techniques as each strike of the hammer forces you to blink. Keep your eyes open though. You won’t want to miss what happens next.

• We Are Fully Funded! Thank you for all your help and support!

  By editorialmonster on October 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Ladies and gentlemen, our anthology project has fully funded! Thank you to everyone for your support! We can’t wait to bring these stories to you, and get our little publishing operation off the ground! There is no reason to stop… Read More ›

• We’re almost there!

  By ericmbosarge on October 26, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Thank you all so much for your support! We only have $202 to go and we’re just warming up!!! Please join our Facebook Live Final Push event on 10/30 at 7:30 pm EST for a chance to win autographed books… Read More ›

• Reviews Revisited: Patrice Sarath!

  By editorialmonster on October 25, 2019 • ( 0 )

  We are turning in to the home stretch, here, and revisiting posts about our authors in case you missed them the first time. We have just a few hundred dollars left to raise, and only seven days to raise it!… Read More ›

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