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"From the limitless imagination of Nod Ghosh, we readers are gifted with three novellas of impressive scope and depth. These narratives, deftly distilled and interwoven, speak to the vagaries of love and loss, of betrayal and intrigue. Brilliant, dark, and riveting, 'Filthy Sucre' is a collection by one of our best writers at the height of her powers." ~ Kathy Fish, author of 'Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018' "Nod Ghosh knows how to unspool a tale that keeps us turning pages, missing train stops, and binge-reading way into the night. The three flash novellas of 'Filthy Sucre' entice us into complex liaisons both acrid and sweet; to read her work is to become complicit in her clever webs of dysfunction, where guilt and innocence lose their boundaries and human nature is laid bare." ~ Nancy Stohlman, author of 'Madam Velvet's Cabaret of Oddities' and 'The Vixen Scream and other Bible Stories'

... 67 poets take on 'indigo' "The term "indigomania" was coined for the Impressionists' "unhealthy" passion for blues." from 'The essence of blue' by Belinda Recio and Catherine Kouts "... "One year one paints violet and people scream, and the following year every one paints a great deal of violet," Manet remarked on a different occasion." from 'Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art' by Laura Anne Kalba

15 short stories by Eddy Knight, based in and around Port Adelaide, South Australia. "Eddy Knight's semi-autobiographical stories are plugged with a hidden charge, always about to set off a chain of curiosities or minor tragedies which form the universal abyss of ordinary life. Throughout there is a formation of subjectivity, a stillness of observation working as a "speaking wound" which is suffered through quiet sensitivity and authenticity of experience. This is a great mapping of Port Adelaide and its surroundings, of its estuarine effluvia, both human and environmental, redeemed by the plucky melancholia of its characters transcending their histories through memory and empathy. 'A Short Walk to the Sea' is an impressive dissent against ignorance of the human condition." ~ Brian Castro (Recipient of the 2014 Patrick White Award for his contribution to Australian Literature)

"A spectacularly understated page-turner. Each story enters a world apart, often spoken with a poetic dry wit, sometimes acerbic to the point of controversial, honest to the point of brutal. Some people and situations are so funny you'll wish you'd been there. Many times you wonder how some have survived - some don't. From Ceduna, Madura, Mundrabilla, Kimba, and Yalata near the dog fence, Lewis has met, worked, and lived with the creme-de-la-creme of drifters and transients, as well as the fourth and fifth generational outback station owners. In the great Australian outback - among the dry red soil, the mulga and saltbushes, where the kestrels observe and keep their secrets - beware who you're talking to." Helen Travers, author of 'A Little Lower Than Angels'

"In a terrifically impressive collection of short short-fictions, Steve Evans takes us on a tour of the metaphorical sinkholes of suburbia. Via his observant eye and febrile imagination, we behold the mischievous and manic, the tawdry and tragic, and more. We come upon familiar scenes that then glow in a broadband delivery of hyper-realism. Second-hand books become a successful stalking strategy. A private letter-burning becomes a communal cleansing. In a final afternoon tea, a potential inheritance is consumed in gold-leaf-infused cakes. A deposit-secured wedding cake, a promised book of window paintings, a normal Bay-City tram ... never arrive." ~ Moya Costello, author of 'The Office as a Boat: a chronicle'

"Salvatore Difalco's fiction is a finely blended mix of toughness, street-smart insights and violence, along with flashes of tenderness and compassion. (His stories) are thoughtful, enigmatic ... drawing the reader in with sharp detail, poetic phrasing and recognizable characters. Though we're dealing with thugs, prostitutes and crackheads, they are all folks you'll feel uncomfortably at home with. That's Difalco's magic: scrape characters from the bottom of society's bowl and reveal them in literary daylight as powerless dreamers, failed mothers, caged creatures." ~ Matthew Firth, 'Front & Centre'

"Alan Walowitz's poetry can provoke out-loud laughter and pensive melancholy; better still, he can even do both in the same poem. He has a particular talent for reconstructing recollections, quietly showing us what is moving about them and why, as in this volume's splendid title poem." ~ Robert Wexelblatt, author of 'The Posthumous Papers of Sidney Fein' "What I love about Alan Walowitz's poems, is the very relatable way in which he captures so many of life's important moments with astute observation, wry humor, and empathy. He has a distinctive voice which infiltrates my synapses and resonates with my heart." ~ Betsy Mars, author of 'Alinea' "Alan Walowitz is neither withholding nor unnecessarily oblique. And then there's the welcome wit, as he juggles the sometimes Jewish-blues in deft narratives that never cease to surprise. In his refusal to claim wisdom, he is wise. And oh, so rare to turn a breath into a gasp." ~ Estha Weiner, author of 'at the last minute'

112 acrostics from John Lambremont, Sr. "The author's skill is paramount. It is not easy to create a puzzle with its answer embedded therein. Clever, yes, but more. There is a reason many have relied on this form of writing; beginning with the Bible, telling those who venture to know, there is more here than meets the eye; found in Medieval literature, the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, if you did not know, tells us Alice's real name at the end in this way, if you can find your way Through the Looking-Glass. Within these pages, "A Small Gift" telling of love, up and down the page. "A Big Pioneer" hinting with "Train colored blue made you a new sensation"-it's all there-for us to find." ~ Howard Richard Debs, finalist and recipient of the 28th annual 2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards, and author of Gallery: A Collection of Pictures and Words, a 2017 Best Book Awards and 2018 Book Excellence Awards recipient.

"Rob Walker has produced a delightful cross-genre melee ... sometimes bucolic, sometimes heartwarming and homespun and sometimes apocalyptic, but always engaging and thought- provoking, taking the reader into different times and places, always with an eye to opening perception." ~ Magdalena Ball, editor of 'Compulsive Reader' "Rob Walker reveals the breadth of his talents in this quirky collection of fiction, memoir and poetry. This is a book of journeys: on foot, bus, train and spaceship, from ancient past into distant future, from Australia to Japan and back again. Walker is our whimsical guide, moving effortlessly between the grounded normality of childhood memory and the surreal fantasy of an imagined future. An insightful dissection of contemporary morality that bristles with humour and humanity." ~ Alison Flett, poetry editor of 'Transnational Literature'

A woman is reunited with her estranged father, a proud man whose outlook is shaped by one of history's forgotten tragedies, the Partition of India in 1947. "As always with flash at its best, the power is in the space between the words. In 'The Crazed Wind', Ghosh provides a lush, unique collection of flash fiction, taking the reader from past to present day India and back, on a turbulent journey through cultural and family divides, leaving a disquieting truth." ~ Eileen Merriman, author of 'Pieces of You' and 'Catch Me When You Fall' "'The Crazed Wind' is an ambitious, cleverly crafted work. The core relationship between a daughter and her father is examined with psychological astuteness that lends itself to compassion towards both. Using a hybrid of fiction, non-fiction, prose poetry, and playful structures, Ghosh creates an entertaining, unexpected series of pieces that blend to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts." ~ Stephanie Hutton, author of 'Three Sisters of Stone'

78 flash fictions from a master of the form ... For the flash fiction connoisseur, 'Kiss Kiss' is a must read and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Beckman won an award for this collection. There are many surprises here and like other writers, I found myself thinking time and again, "I wish I'd written this." ~ Niles Reddick, 'MBR: Reviewer's Bookwatch'

108 stories of infidelity "Disturbingly knowing and knowingly disturbing, Edward O'Dwyer comes at his delicate subject matter with a playful and razor eye. These are shards that insist on being read, and then read again." ~ Alan McMonagle, author of 'Psychotic Episodes' and 'Ithaca' "Cheat Sheets (is) an astonishing collection of vignettes about life, love, lust and relationships, which are jaw-droppingly hilarious, tender, strange, potent and weirdly charming--all at the same time. I laughed out loud in public too many times, the laughs often interrupted with sharp intakes of breath, as stories took outrageously i-didn't-see-that-coming turns. If I have any advice for readers when they sit down with this collection, it is this: pace yourself. Like a packet of Nestlé's Rolos or a family size packet of salt & vinegar crisps, you won't want these stories to end." ~ Ali Whitelock, author of 'and my heart crumples like a coke can' and 'Poking seaweed with a stick and running away from the smell'

"Every word has gone through endless exacting rehearsals to shine. These are poems not only to be read, but to be memorized." ~ John-Ivan Palmer, author of 'Motels of Burning Madness' "Captures sentiment and observance in cunning detail, wit, and elegance." ~ Marge Barrett, author of 'My Memoir Dress' "The very finest of wordsmith sizzle." ~ Ted King, author of 'New Beat' and 'Coyote' "The seismic deluge continues, page after page, until the very final word crashes in and spreads across the sand." ~ 'The Write Launch Literary Magazine' Find preview snippets of 'Dollhouse Masquerade' here: https://truthserumpress.net/tastesof/a-taste-of-dollhouse-masquerade/ Find 'Dollhouse Masquerade' at Truth Serum Press here: https://truthserumpress.net/catalogue/fiction/dollhouse-masquerade/

"e;Reading 'Track Tales' is like key-holing a personal diary that gives the human drum on the racing industry in Australia during the early 1980s. The poems perversely honour the men, women, horses and dogs that were the industry at the time ... the poems jostle at the starting gate. Suddenly they're off and running! A totally absorbing read."e;~ Martin Christmas, author of 'Immediate Reflections'

"e;At first glance Claire Hopple's stories appear delightfully off kilter, even laugh-out-loud funny, but the flashes of wisdom start early in this collection and they don't stop. This is a world of constant disorientation where people aim for connection and gamble on intimacy, no matter how precarious. Hopple's small towns are in decline and her families are fragile. Everybody lives here: older relatives who unravel or disappear; a sibling tipping over into frightening criminality; three generations of women with the same name in the same house who manage to lose each other; a hitchhiker who proves the lie of American life; a couple of friends from childhood, forever connected in a web of communal memory. After watching Hopple's characters question the scripts they've been handed, we are left to marvel at the hard work of being lost."e; ~ Jan Stinchcomb, author of 'Find the Girl'

"Something quite wonderful happens when you allow yourself to drift through life without a plan of direction," writes Jack Buck in his poignant debut story collection. The writing in 'Deer Michigan' takes this philosophy to heart, embracing the flux of fate in over fifty ethereal narratives. In one story we meet an exiled Mao on a hiking trail, in another the narrator mourns the graceful disappearance of birds. Buck's stories ripple with nostalgia, a reverence for the natural world and an America with room in which to wander. Though the stories in 'Deer Michigan' are short-in one case spun out in a single sentence-they bottle up an expanse of human experience, offering us a stunning universe of feeling. ~ Allegra Hyde, author of 'Of This New World'

45 writers riff on the topic 'true' ... featuring stories, essays and poems by Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Mark Hudson, Lynn Hoffman, Len Kuntz, Danielle Davis, M. Earl Smith, Wayne Scheer, Sally Reno, Vivian Wagner, Paul Beckman, Michael Konik, David S. Atkinson, A J Huffman, Jack Granath, Tim Philippart, Martin Jon Porter, Martin Shaw, Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Ruth Z. Deming, John Lambremont Sr., John Grey, Em König, Brian Abiri-Osare, Patricia Walsh, Samuel Cole, Danny P. Barbare, Carl 'Papa' Palmer, Michael Marrotti, Barbara Ruth, Stephen V. Ramey, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, Irene Buckler, Robbi Nester, Flora Gaugg, Matt Devirgiliis, Sarah Anne Childers, Robert Beveridge, Anne E. Weisgerber, Richard King Perkins II, Nod Ghosh, Alan Walowitz, Tom Sheehan, Dusty-Anne Rhodes, Lynn White and Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz

"e;What Came Before is a remarkable achievement - a smart, fast-paced mystery that asks important questions about identity, family, and race. And, like the best of its genre, it's loaded with puzzles: What really happened on the day Abbie Palmer's mother killed herself? Who is the mysterious woman who shows up on Abbie's doorstep, and why would anyone want her dead? Gay Degani's prose is at all times lucid and compelling, and her exciting story will keep you glued to your chair."e;~ Clifford Garstang, winner of the 2013 Library of Virginia Award for Fiction for 'What the Zhang Boys Know'"e;With engaging characters and a compelling mystery, Gay Degani's What Came Before draws you in and doesn't let go. If this had been a movie, I wouldn't have left the cinema for more popcorn. A brilliant and complex whodunit with a memorable, imperfect character at its helm."e;~ Christopher Allen, author of 'Conversations with S. Teri O'Type (a Satire)'

Stories, poems & essays by Alex Reece Abbott, Duff Allen, Paul Beckman, Claudia Bierschenk, Rick Blum, Irene Buckler, Ron Campbell, Steven Carr, Jan Chronister, Ruth Z. Deming, Matt Dennison, Nod Ghosh, Jack Granath, John Grey, Louise Hofmeister, Mark Hudson, Len Kuntz, John Lambremont, Sr., Larry Lefkowitz, Cynthia Leslie-Bole, Michael Marrotti, Todd McKie, Lesley Middleton, Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz, Piet Nieuwland, Martin Jon Porter, Stephen V. Ramey, Alex Robertson, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, Wayne Scheer, Martin Shaw, DL Shirey, Jan Elman Stout, Sophie Van Llewyn, Jerry Vilhotti, Rob Walker, Mercedes Webb-Pullman and Allan J. Wills