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PREDICATE (dialogues with Pablo D'Stair)
Predicate features dialogues from a variety of independent novelists, poets, and authors of short-fiction. Each author participates in a three-tiered dialogue process with author Pablo D'Stair. The dialogues are set through a particular filter selected by D'Stair, but the subjects, direction, nuances, and conclusions of each dialogue are dictated by the artists.These dialogues are not offered as simply introductory Q & A sessions, nor as advertisements for any particular volumes - these rather are Portraits of the Artist: their individual drives, their thoughts on influences and contemporaries, and their in-depth feelings as to every minutia and nuance of the question What Is Literature?
Kill Christian
Christian is a lonely emigrant, nearing seventy, having never come to terms with witnessing the murder of his mother, more than forty years in the past. When confronted with an official summons to return to his country -where the murderer of his mother has now confessed and awaits execution- Christian is forced to consider his life. As he travels to witness the execution, events from his past -opportunities he either ignored or retreated from- illustrate to him his state of removal from the world he inhabits. While attempting to reintegrate into his life, he encounters a young woman who confides in him her troubles with a temperamental lover. Trying to construct a kind of redemption for himself, Christian offers his help in extricating her from the situation
Regard
Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth is a curious yet reticent girl, awakening instinctually to the details and sensations of the world. The majority of her time spent waiting between incidental events, she sates her curiosity through observation of the things which surround her. With little input from her family or peers and with no distinct passion toward any individual pursuit, she drifts through the events of her days unnoticed and detached. Isolated by her manner in the world, she is able to observe the behaviors of people -encountering humor, loneliness, sexuality, violence, friendship and comfort without distinguishing one from another.
Man Standing Behind
Leaving work on a nondescript evening, Roger is held up at gunpoint when he stops at a cash machine. He attempts to hand everything in his bank account, but robbery isn’t on the gunman’s mind. Roger is told simply to walk. The gunman takes him on a macabre odyssey―from city pubs to suburban neighborhoods to isolated homes in the country―and as the night presses on, a seemingly not-so-random body count grows around him. A moment-by-moment exploration of moral paralysis, Man Standing Behind charts the psyche of a random man caught in the roils of a mortal circumstance nothing to do with his own life. Is he a witness, a victim…or something altogether worse? Praise for MAN STANDING BEH...
Dustjacket Flowers
Danial Thames spends his free hours loitering in the public library. There he tries to glean some semblance of the life he finds described in books from his encounters with staff and patrons. Finding a scrap of writing on the library floor, he is inspired to litter fragments of his own random prose into the pages of various books. After many months, he discovers a notebook in which his writing has been copied down. Discovering that the collector is a talented writer, Danial Thames attempts to develop a friendship but finds himself jealous of the freedom the writer has to accept or desert him.
Mister Trot from Tin Street
Wynol Trot—a family man and high school teacher with a pornography habit he takes pains to keep hidden. To Trevor English, the idea is simple—threaten Wynol with exposure unless a modest sum is paid. But when the blackmail doesn’t go through, Trevor realizes his own past makes him more vulnerable than his would-be victim—and that Wynol Trot is more amoral than he could have imagined. Praise for the Books by Pablo D’Stair “D’Stair is clearly a master. Likely Jean Patrick Manchette reincarnated…” —Matt Phillips, author of Countdown and The Bad Kind of Lucky “Somehow again and again you’re drawn in…you get used to the book’s rhythm and follow it because the work is o...
Voices Restless Inanimate
Voices Restless Inanimate collects the entirety of the verse composed by Pablo D'Stair Gonzalez between 1999 and 2005. Included in this volume are the fifteen poems that comprise the collections Milling In The Cemetery, This Structure Without Words and Cold When She Dances.Published for the first time together, these poems offer the reader a chance to explore a mind both detached and romantic, melancholic and passionate.Primarily a novelist, Gonzalez's verse provides him a further and more abstracted outlet for his examination of the minute and reserved details that make up an individuals life and desires, the unconscious collections of motives that drive us.
this letter to Norman Court
When petty crook Trevor English is offered two thousand dollars to deliver a letter across the country, the choice seems fairly simple—money up front, no way he can go wrong. And when he finds himself in possession of correspondence several parties would pay to get their hands on, the choice seems even simpler—take what he can, while he can, from who he can…and disappear. this letter to Norman Court is the first installment in Pablo D’Stair’s five-novella Trevor English cycle. Praise for the books by Pablo D’Stair: “D'Stair is clearly a master. Likely Jean Patrick Manchette reincarnated…” —Matt Phillips, author of Countdown and The Bad Kind of Lucky
this gun from Norman Court
Skint, on the skids, reduced to life in skid-row shelters, Trevor English, petty thief and habitual blackmailer, is apprehended shoplifting by store-detective-cum-freelance-investigator Leonard Bellow. Turning a blind eye to his theft, Bellow offers Trevor a job doing shutterbug reconnaissance work—an opportunity Trevor jumps at (if already with his own ends in mind). But in the world he has cornered himself in nothing remains what it seems on the surface…except, he comes to realize, for Trevor English: deadbeat, desperate, easy mark, lamb to the slaughter. this gun from Norman Court is the final installment in Pablo D’Stair’s five-novella Trevor English cycle. Praise for Pablo D’S...
Crooked Roads: Crime Stories
You want heartfelt sensitive stories about the mid-life crisis of a middle-class white guy? How about ironic tales of suburban marriages where the love has faded? Yeah, if that’s what you want, pick up some other book, because Crooked Roads, Alec Cizak’s first short story collection, is not for you. This book is about real humans in the real streets of cities and small towns. People who are messed up, people at the edge of things—at the edge of sanity, at the edge of morality, at the edge of legality. Criminals, the homeless, the depraved, the perverted, and just normal folk at the end of their rope. Go ahead, pick it up, give it a read. We dare you. Praise for CROOKED ROADS: “With fists pounding against cliché and convention, Alec Cizak creates prose that is bold…and bloody.” —David Cranmer, author of Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles, and publisher of Beat To a Pulp Books
