Clay Blackburn has two jobs. Most of the time he's your average bisexual book scout in Berkeley. Some of the time, he's...not quite a private detective. He doesn't have a license, he doesn't have a gun, he doesn't have a business card, but people come to him for help and in helping them he comes across more than his fair share of trouble. And, trouble finds him seeking the fountain of youth, the myth of paradise, the pie in the sky...The Incredible...

Perry wakes up in an arroyo, hungover and unsure how he got there. His wallet and cell phone missing, he walks back to the last place he remembers being before he blacked out the bar. Fueled by alcohol and a touch of companionship, Perry is determined to find out who rolled him, but standing in his way is an accident that happened six months earlier and the struggle his life has become since. In his search for the material things taken from him, he...

Bang. The door to your cell is shut. You have survived the arrest, you are mad that you weren't more careful, you worry that they will get others too, you wonder what will happen to your group and whether a lawyer has been called yet-of course you show none of this. The weapon, the fake papers, your own clothes, all gone. The prison garb and the shoes they've thrown at you are too big-maybe because they want to play silly games with you, maybe because...

After a divorce and an early retirement from newspaper reporting, Hank Fowler's life is back on track he has a girlfriend, steady freelance work, a teaching job that is, until he gets a call from his old pal Chris Beckwith. Beckwith, his college roommate and a former drug-addict turned motivational speaker, is found dead not too long after. Following up on Chris's sudden death, Hank begins to unravel a series of gruesome murders, all involving motivational...

They call him the Kid. He's a killer, a dark Latino legend of the Southwest's urban badlands, "a child who terrifies adults." They speak of him in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him. Others say he doesn't exist, a phantom blamed for every unsolved act of violence, a ghost who haunts every blood-splattered crime scene. But, he is real. He's a young man with a love of cooking and reading, an abiding loneliness and an...

Este es un relato crudo, realista, objetivo y sin ninguna clase de sensacionalismos, de un gamberro que viola a una pequeña niña de seis años, tras lo cual, este delincuente pasa a vivir el resto de su vida en las peligrosas cárceles uruguayas, y termina sus días internado en un hospital psiquiátrico. El hecho de que el autor de esta novela, Ernesto Thomas González (1968), le haya puesto su propio nombre a este personaje motivó una verdadera...

Clamor magazine was a movement publication that existed between 2000 and 2006, covering radical politics, culture, and activism. Clamor published 38 issues and featured over 1,000 different writers and artists. The mission statement was: Clamor is a quarterly print magazine and online community of radical thought, art, and action. An iconoclast among its peers, Clamor was an unabashed celebration of self-determination, creativity, and shit-stirring....

Edge City, from the author of Low Bite, takes place in an every-noir-city (a thinly veiled portrait of San Francisco's North Beach), and its newest resident is Reno, an angry fledgling just hatched out of prison. Getting out is like a weird dream, and the streets of the City are a muddle of sensations pooling around her. First, there's the bustle-everybody busy with mysterious businesses-an amplifying racket of choices. Staggering out onto the late...

Nachtkommissar Gideon Voss untersucht widerwillig einen tödlichen Unfall und stolpert dabei über blutsaugende Okkultisten, hartnäckige Ermittlerkollegen und Gefühle für die Hauptverdächtige, die ihn mit tiefschwarzen Augen und angefeilten Eckzähnen manipuliert.

Featuring an insane cast of anthropomorphic characters, Bare Snow is based on Brett A. Brooks's Pussy Katnip Series and was first featured in A Hand of Gold and other stories in 2018.Jerry O'Hare is a journalist for the Herald, who is hoping to get the real scoop on Grizz Bigly and his dastardly schemes. When he and his apprentice witness a murder, Jerry's realizes he has more to worry over than the puddle of piss he left in Bigly's bed. Now, with...