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Fluid is a story about people and their bodies, their connections to each other, and their unwavering primality. In 1970s Hull, a tiny revolution is brewing. Young sex workers find their creativity and independence. Besotted artists perform outrageous stage-shows, and young women discover the beauty of feminism, book clubs, and shower heads. This intersectional collection of short stories paints a picture of a post-hippy, bohemian lifestyle, where punk, art, and abjection meet. Fluid is an interconnected collection of short-stories, each chapter based on a piece of 1970s artwork containing or alluding to body fluids. All the artistic pieces examined were chosen because they fitted within two categories: they all included the use or suggestion of body fluids, and they were all successful in creating controversy. The artists included are Vivienne Westwood, Mary Kelly, Valie Export, COUM Transmissions, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Oppenheim, Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann, Judy Chicago, Suicide, Chris Burden, and Jenny Holzer. The chapters bleed together to create a cut-and-paste plot reflecting northern England during a time of social unrest.
Acid trips, terrorists, and one hundred birthday candles. Icy baths, burning bodies, and everything in between. This thought provoking debut short story collection from Cathleen Davies pulls no punches. Expertly skewering readers' expectations on failing relationships, cabin fever, police violence, feminism, loss, and loyalty; each unique character tells a tale of the dissatisfied, the angst-laden, and the justifiably outraged. Elder members of the LGBTQ+ community lament simpler times. Young women in foster care construct a death-pact because #promises. A cult dismembers their followers to prove more than loyalty. In a place where horror straddles humor, Cheeky, Bloody Articles dares to ans...
Short fiction, featuring Florida and the Fantastic! Throughout her career, award-winning, paranormal fantasy romance author Valerie Willis has been collecting her thoughts in short fiction. Some of these tales you may know, published in anthologies, blogs, or even featured as contest winners. Others are hidden gems that are no longer satisfied to collect dust, including some deleted scenes from The Cedric Series. Readers will encounter myths and monsters from all over the world before being pulled back close to home, or in this case, Florida. If that wasn’t enough, find love in unusual places from the sea to cemetery. Val’s House of Musings is the first short story collection pulled together for fans and new readers to savor a little at a time.
Welcome to Adjunct Hell, where second-class teachers do first-class work. A 30-year veteran of higher-education, Professor Virgil Henry uses Dante’s Inferno as a guide to take readers on an epic adventure through the hellscape of higher education in the United States. Follow Virgil and his band of like-minded adjuncts as they battle educational bureaucracy, low-pay, lack of health-care or job security, and social and professional indignities, all while showing up every day (and every night) for the students they care for and the job they love.
This is the tale of a town on the fringes of fear, of ordinary people and everyday objects transformed by terror and madness, a microcosm of the world where nothing is ever quite what it seems. This is a world where the unreal is real, where the familiar and friendly lure and deceive. On the outskirts of civilisation sits this solitary town. Home to the unhinged. Oblivion to outsiders. Shallow Creek contains twenty-one original horror stories by a chilling cast of contemporary writers, including stories by Sarah Lotz, Richard Thomas, Adrian J Walker, and Aliya Whitely. Told through a series of interconnected narratives, Shallow Creek is an epic anthology that exposes the raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre's core. Welcome to Shallow Creek!
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Between 2015 and 2020, I was lucky enough to produce a remarkable set of photographs of a group of people who were at best, invisible to society and, at worst, the frequent targets of mistreatment. I met with them consistently, carefully documenting their story and gradually becoming absorbed into their lives. Together, we have been through births, deaths, arrests, fights and the day to day struggles we all endure. I had expected to document the people in Sol, but I did not expect to like them so much or to be welcomed into their family. This has been a baby step toward changing the negative perceptions of Romani people in Spain. Although, at the very least, the Romani community in Madrid has found an unlikely friend and ally. I am the lucky one, as they were easily the best thing that happened to me during my time in Spain.
The anthology comprises 43 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Queer writing today. This is writing that explores characters, stories and experiences beyond the mainstream. Celebrating the fascinating, the forbidden, the subversive, and even the mundane, but in essence, the view from outside. The book will be dedicated to the memory of Lucy Reynolds, the trans daughter of Sarah Beal, Publisher at Muswell Press, and niece of co-Publisher Kate Beal. A student, musician and strong advocate of LGBTQI rights, she died in March 2020 at the age of 20.
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