Archive | March, 2011

The Crazy Brain: An Interview with Alex Young

19 Mar

By Jason Michel

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BLACK BETWEEN THE FRAMES #3

19 Mar

Some might have their whole lives flash before their eyes.

Others turn their thoughts to loved ones and friends.

Tommy yells as the change he just bummed for a coffee drains from his pockets.


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Truth Lies Bleeding – Tony Black Interview By Paul D Brazill

19 Mar

Scottish crime writer Tony Black has written four cracking novels featuring the wonderfully stroppy journalist -turned -Private Eye Gus Dury. In his latest novel, TRUTH LIES BLEEDING, however, Black has taken a rest from Dury. The protagonist is Detective Inspector Rob Brennan.

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I Didn’t Say That, Did I? : The Big Bamboozler Recommends

19 Mar

By Paul D Brazill

Truth Lies Bleeding by Tony Black.

The protagonist of Tony Black’s previous four novels is Gus Dury-a boozy  journalist turned private eye. Dury is an antisocial, cantankerous, stroppy, trouble maker who lives on the cusp of catastrophe.

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The Black Swan versus Catwoman By Gary Widdowfield

19 Mar

“What must be done, practically? Which action is good? Which action is bad? To ask such a question is also to fall into a naive abstraction  . . . Ethics does not furnish recipes any more than do science and art.”

Simone de Beauvoir

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Writers’ Commerce and the Steering Clear of Unified Communication Devices By Dr. KJ Hannah Greenberg

19 Mar

In a span of five minutes, I had to check my email addresses, cell phone, land line, and fax for the most recent message Continue reading 

Swarm Intelligence By Lynn Alexander

19 Mar

She had a thing with queens. Not necessarily current queens with specific

personalities, but the idea of queens, organic queens, females surrounded by

workers, coalesced in orbit servitude. Continue reading 

Slow Horse By Mark Porter

19 Mar

Copywrited to Bryan Clopton

Jimmy’s got a race horse. Tommy knows a man. Lizzie’s got a wedge and Jimmy’s got a plan.

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I REMEMBER THAT DAY SHE CAME LIKE A SEAL By 2011

19 Mar

“As the second decade of the 21st Century started; profits were such that mass starvation, inevitable though it was, was Continue reading 

The Writer Without A Soul By Matthew Acheson

19 Mar

When the door swung open Penny was met by a face she didn’t recognize. A tanned and well muscled young man with Continue reading 

Not With A Bang By Finnegan Cole

19 Mar

Barry threw his duffle bag over his shoulder and began running down the terminal at Los Angeles International. What Continue reading 

Ruby Tuesday By Stephen Conley

19 Mar

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Martin stabs at the thin steak, burnt black at the edges. It’s leaving little pale red pools on the Styrofoam plate. The dishes are never done. The steaks are always done wrong. The laundry sits wrinkled on Continue reading 

Get Her A Fucking Card, Man! By Phil Beloin Jr.

19 Mar

Friendship— The enjoyment of spending time with Sally.

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Affectionately Yours, Sherry By Diane Bechtler

19 Mar

I stepped into the humid night air looking for the white SUV. I had a romantic sex filled night waiting for me in that Continue reading