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Rowena has a mother: “This is my life, Mom. Not a Jane Austen novel. Not—” “Listen to me, Miss Independence. He’s a nice young man, but men expect things. Even nice ones, sometimes. He’s going to think that you’re inviting him to do . . . married people things.” Rowena tried to interrupt, but when she opened her mouth nothing came . . .
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A full understanding of Bent Magnus begins with his mind. Imagine if you poured the intellectual horsepower of Einstein, Edison, and Ben Franklin all into one man. Now imagine that the man wasn’t a total pansy, like those other guys, and you have Bent Magnus. Beginning with his birth at the “Fight of the Century” in 1910, Bent Magnus . . .
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Greg Grendle is 20 something, unemployed and living in a boring suburb. Every now and then he looks for a little adventure. . . .
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For the Ai-Naidar, a species of slim, gracile aliens, caste and tradition are not the shackles that imprison the spirit but the silences that make sense of the music of their lives. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar collects 25 short tales about what it is to have an Ai-Naidari soul: to find comfort in tradition, law and structure; to revere interdependence . . .
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The cult-classic “noir” columns return. Charles Bukowsky said, of these pieces, “What this guy understands is that the street IS a wound.” Hunter Thompson commented, “And people keep saying they should lock ME up.” . . .
Beloved comes from an upper middle class immigrant family, all of whom cling to their traditions, static in a changing world. Spearman comes from a working class immigrant family, who discarded everything that suggested them unAustralian in their desire to survive, then drifted, aimless. When they get together, no one’s exactly happy about it. This collection of character sketches, . . .
A disclaimer: I generally post reviews only after having read a good proportion of a story (at least 50%, if not everything posted). I’m not entirely sure how much of content I’ve read of Flesh Wounds but – to be honest – I’m not interested in reading more.
Flesh Wounds is [more . . .]
These stories are billed as previously published in newspapers and magazines, so I guess they aren’t really "web fiction", but you gotta wonder a little.
The word "noir" comes up a lot around these essays or tales or whatever they are. And they are certainly dark. Prison violence, murder, psychotic [more . . .]