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City Smells
Cities are as much collections of smells as they are collections of bricks: smells define them. From one block to another you can be overwhelmed by any number of odours: the garbage outside a busy restaurant, flowers on display outside a florist or freshly ground coffee as you meander past an open door to a cafe. Some city smells make you sigh warmly and think of old friends; others, like those that seep out of dank alleyways, make you skip a step and screw up your nose. Those of us that live in cities cannot avoid the olfactory messages that the streets bombard us with. Nor should we. This book is an international collection of poetry, fiction and non-fiction dedicated to celebrating the redolent urban bouquet. So take a deep breath, and enjoy this assorted melange of City Smells.
Broken Worlds
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places... In a future of bleakness and roboticism, a totalitarian government enforces upon the people a lifestyle that lulls them into a state of obedience. Your career and social status are predestined and you cannot alter it - this is a reality that walks a fine line between evoking sensations of fear and inducing a sense of futility. A dystopian reality can sometimes turn out to be as powerful and strong as it can be fragile, collapsing in on itself from one second to the next. As a race, we are fascinated with what comes next, what's over the hill and, inevitably, what happens if we're left all alone. How can things ...
Gods of Chicago
Quarter-finalist for the 2014 ABNA!It's the hit of the century, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, and Chicago City's top newshawk, Mitchell Brand, has the scoop. But this hit isn't just one mob wiping out another. Soon enough, Brand wades knee-deep into a world of gangsters and G-men. The bodies pile up and Brand worries that he's bitten off more than he can chew when his newsboys are added to the stack. Then the Governor sends his army into the city with one mission: clean house.Dodging bullets and bombs, Brand and his last remaining newsboy, Aiden Conroy, have to get the real story out on the airwaves. In scenes that take Brand back to the trenches of the Great War, he and Aiden must get the evidence the city needs to see the Governor for what he is. Through it all ride a corps of tramps on rusty bicycles, the mysterious Bicycle Men, and one of them has a message for Brand.
Haints Stay
Brooke and Sugar are contract killers without a contract. Bird is the 13-year-old who appears in their camp one night, with no memory and palms as smooth as stones. Driven from town after a bathhouse brawl, it's only a matter of time before the sheriffs will find them. Before the cannibals and stampedes and marauders will find them. Before the past will clamber up from where they buried it, covered in animal skins and teeth. In Haints Stay, Colin Winnette breaks down the classic Western and builds a bloody lean-to from the scraps.
Scaring the Stars Into Submission
A great, unnamed event. A world both drowning and engulfed in flames. Autopsies reveal gardens of lilies sprouting up inside the rib cages of the dead. Clouds fall to the earth and affect the behavior of those that come in contact with them. Revolution and violent uprisings spread through nations across the globe. Twelve blind men in a basement transcribe the history of the world as it burns down around them. Nightmares become reality; reality becomes nightmare. Families turn to reluctant cannibalism in the hopes of waiting out the horrors beyond. Corporations push to create a new population to replace the old one. Philosophical musings from a balcony overlooking a dark, empty city. A brief ...
Love in the Time of Dinosaurs
DINOSAURS! LOVE! WAR! MONASTIC LIVING! Three days after his partner is bitten in half by a brachiosaur, a nameless monk meets the love of his life. Her name is Petunia. She is a dinosaur. But a twenty-year war between their species is about to come to a head, and only one will survive. To be together, the monk and the dinosaur must fight their way through hordes of pterodactyl samurai, anti-aircraft stegosaurs, gigantic kamikaze moths, and machine gun-wielding tyrannosaurs. Love in the Time of Dinosaurs is a surreal war tale of forbidden love, betrayal, and magic kung-fu. Forget Jurassic Park, this is the greatest dinosaur story ever told.
L' Allure Des Mots, Issue XIII
Underneath the surface of rational thought, the human mind is shaped over a nucleus of emotion, feeling, and unreason. Our irrational ancient minds seek out the entire spectrum of the human experience. Experiences that are beautiful, repulsive, intensely pleasurable, and profoundly terrifying. Moments and sensations that take us by surprise and leave our brains tickled and bruised. L'Allure des Mots celebrates this experience through the written and visual arts.
Wearing Dad's Head
A unique collection of short stories that astounded readers with its vaudeville of the subconscious set loose in broad daylight.
American Fuji
Japan itself is the comic hero of this sweet and funny, sad and inspiring novel. Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama exchange student who was killed in an accident. (No one will tell him exactly how.) Alex has come to this utterly foreign place to find the truth, and now Gaby is serving as his translator and guide. The key to mastering Japanese, she keeps telling him, is understanding what's not being said. And in this "deft and delightful" (Karen Joy Fowler) novel, the unsaid truths about everything from work and love to illness and death cast a deafening silence-and tower in the background like Mount Fuji itself.
Circus + The Skin
When a circus caravan is torn apart by a destructive summer storm, the show's tattooed man and his fellow performers are scattered across the wheat fields of a nameless hamlet. The tempest's survivors convene at a local boarding house, but a series of violent attacks and strange deaths sabotage their attempts to regroup. The show's tattooed man is Sue, a middle-aged, world-weary war veteran whose days are haunted by dark memories. At night his inks call to him, seemingly alive. As the circus strains to stay the course, Sue's sense of reality begins to fragment -- and something reaches for him from the recesses of his past.
