If this fire ant had its way, It’d smash this window and pry me open. Can’t blame it—separated from Swarm and nowhere to fly, Everywhere starving and Stark raving mad, You’d crush the giant’s face with Black eyes tracking delirium, Watching you thrash As he sips coffee on the other side….
A Fire Escape Back Down to Gravity by Ryan Quinn Flanagan.
If you can’t stand the length of professional basketball, the width of sumo wrestling from video game Japan will confound you, leave you sucking back Vietnam-era defoliants in the dark looking for game show door prizes behind smudged crybaby peep holes that claim to have called the cops and there is no reason to disbelieve…
K A Laity Reviews Galway Girl by Ken Bruen
The penultimate Jack Taylor story is out and I tried to make it last as long as possible, but I finished it. I always say I’m not much of a series fan but I am there for Bruen’s beaten and bloodied ex-Garda until the bitter end. If he gets resurrected, I’ll be there for that…
Two Days before Florence by Chris Benton
Two days before Hurricane Florence hits, I wake up with another concussion. My wife’s been giving them to me every other week for months now, and I don’t know which one will be the blessed last. During the latest, I was having another dream of hell, laid bare within a vast, piss-reeking ditch with all…
How Many Does It Take To Burn A Teenage Girl? by Kristin Garth
How Many Does It Take To Burn A Teenage Girl? for Nusrat Rafi How many does it take to burn a teen- age girl? Bangladesh, sixteen are sentenced to die — as trial unfurls, new villains seen, unsentenced, your tragedy. For instance, the cop who leaked it to TV, victim statement of what…
John Wisniewski Interviews Henry Roi
John Wisniewski: Could you tell us about writing your latest book “With Her Fists”? What inspired you to write? Henry Roi: It began as a character driven story. I wanted a protagonist with the same abilities I possess, though enhanced, far more talented but not so over the top that they aren’t believable. What’s more…
Recommended Read: Tommy Shakes by Rob Pierce
Former heroin addict Tommy Shakes is a perennial screw up. He’s an habitual criminal with a long-suffering wife, a young son, and dog called Rommel. He’s also a heavy-duty booze hound looking for a heist that will pay enough for him to get back into his wife’s good books. He gets his chance when he…
Children of the Stones
Children of the Stones is a British television drama serial for children produced by HTV in 1976 and broadcast on the United Kingdom’s ITV network in January and February 1977. The story was depicted over seven episodes and produced by Peter Graham Scott, with Patrick Dromgoole as executive producer. A novelisation by the serial’s writers,…
The Two Ronnies: Done To Death
Piggy Malone (Ronnie Barker) and Charley Farley (Ronnie Corbett) are private detectives who investigate a mystery about a murdered family, featuring Sue Lloyd as Blanche Brimstone. As soon as Piggy finds out about the murder in the newspaper, a decision’s made that means a trip to the country, and there’s a second murder during an…
Just The Seagulls by John Patrick Robbins
I found myself burnt out as always alone on the beach . Why the hell was I drawn here , I cannot say . Maybe I was a junkie for the pain, maybe I just was unoriginal . And maybe it just reminded me of you . Either way I was here blown out of…
