Download or read book Gutter Angels written by Larry Fondation and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gutter Angels contains work from 1994 to the present, all shining a light on buried life in the darkest corner of the darkest alley in Los Angeles, illuminating the force of life erupting through the rubble of the inner city. Fondation drives with precision the way life can tangle good intentions and trip up even the most sure-footed pedestrians. These are compact city fables delivering an anti-moral and a humbling reminder to judge not. With compassion but without pity, with tenderness but without sentimentality, always tough but never cruel, always loving but never blinded by love, always funny but never ironic, Fondation tells the stories of America’s cities. Critics have compared Fondation to Dickens, John Dos Passos, Wanda Coleman, Steinbeck, Henry Roth, Henry Miller, Frank Norris, Denis Johnson, and Eminem as he exhibits a wide range of styles sharing laser sharp focus on the depths and heights of humanity: hate and discrimination, sacrifice, and redemption. He’s been called a ruthless poet, a supernatural and mystical animal, as complex as Borges and as accessible and engaging as Elmore Leonard. Stories from Angry Nights include “Glass Underfoot” in which tenement tenant Johnny Martins shoots rats as a public service while practicing taking out an enemy and “Blood Relations” where Felice gifts a bottle of Popoff vodka to her homeless brother in exchange for his reading the fortunes of a new boyfriend. Common Criminals, a dark account of Los Angeles alienation in a controlled style that sheds harsh electrifying light on the darkness, contains “Deportation at Breakfast,” the most widely anthologized of Fondation’s flash fiction stories and “Trying to Get Aids,” a raw and twisted love story. In Unintended Consequences, according to critics, Fondation “tells the tale of Everyman, limning the stories of the seldom heard, and often neglected “Greek Chorus,” rather than the well-known stories of Oedipus or Antigone.” With Martyrs and Holymen, Larry Fondation continues to record gritty stories of city life. Here he has expanded the scope to include the experiences of Angeleno soldiers on duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and returning home to LA. When Fallujah is transplanted to Southern California, “survival” can take many meanings, all of them translating into four letter words. Fondation details the scars left by that which does not kill us and tests the notion that we really are left stronger by the experience. The “Working Class” section of Gutter Angels contains twenty-two brief stories published in journals as diverse as Fiction International (experimental fiction) and Flaunt Magazine, a fashion and culture magazine located in Hollywood. His post-realist books of fiction have been called “ensemble novels”—a collage method owing more to Alberto Burri and Robert Rauschenberg than to Henry James. Fondation’s characters, striped by poverty of all pretenses, exist in an inner-city world where hope is constructed and joy desperate and limited. For all that, these characters persevere, continue groping for transcendence, looking for—and finding—reasons to go on. “Neither sensationalistic nor unremittingly bleak, Fondation’s work is engrossing and entertaining at the same time it is thoroughly horrifying. It should be read not only by those interested in the future of fiction—by anyone interested in the future of this world.”

Download or read book The Wharf written by Jesse Bull and published by Jesse Bull, Logan McHenry. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tokyo, 2034 A.D. Japan has finally relaxed her borders to allow an overdue influx of immigration, and with it subsequent street crime and true multilingual diversity. The world's first transition to an entirely cashless banking system has created a society completely reliant on the Personal Life Assistant, or PLA, a mobile device that acts as phone, wallet, keys, identification and more. Over the course of roughly one week a story of technological security, financial terrorism and socioeconomic upheaval unfolds around a small cast of characters, including J., an American banker, Sana, a female television personality, and Shade, an underground tech kingpin shrouded in mystery. The Wharf is a subversive, parodical black comedy and also a classic crime novel penned by two Americans with a combined twelve years experience working, studying and living in Japan.

Download or read book Throwing Kisses to the Beautiful Lady on the Moon written by Robert Harris Blum and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of chaos, fear, distrust and hatred inherent to war, a fragile love blossoms and remains nurtured on a mutual promise. A U.S. Marine is swept up into battle, then far away, back to his homeland to suffer his physical wounds and anguish in his personal defeats, as his lover is swept away in her country's dubious victory of 'The People', who perpetrate countless executions against the intelligentsia and those that sided with America. Amer-Asians who are a disgrace to the homogeneity and assumed purity of Vietnam, are marginalized, shunned and remain as scorned social outcasts. Ai steals away on an un-seaworthy boat, enduring being hijacked and left to die by pirates, on a tiny island. Rescued, she makes her way to America and at last comes face to face with the man whose countenance love and promise maintained her desire and gave her strength to find him.

Download or read book Every White Man s Fantasy written by Linda Porter Harrison and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willow James has always dreamed of finding Mr. Right. She thought she had found true love in her last relationship with Jordan Michael, but that turned out to be a hot mess. Jordan was an incredible piece of eye candy, but he wasnt worth a penny. Then one day she meets Rece Gallantine and her world is flipped upside down. He is everything that she has ever dreamed of. Tall, smart, funnyhandsome. What else could a girl ask for? Well, theres only one problemhes white and shes black. How will she ever tell her parents that shes dating a white guy? Her dad is going to hit the roof! Oh well, shes a grown woman and she can do as she pleases. At least thats what she keeps telling herself. At any rate, she cant think about all of that stuff right now. Willow is in love and shell cross that bridge when she comes to it. Until then, shes going to enjoy Rece and all that comes along with it!

Download or read book It s Decorative Gourd Season Motherfuckers written by Colin Nissan and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate and profane love letter to fall, the best fucking season of the year. Do you get excited at the first brisk breeze of the year? Are you overcome with delight when you see piles of red leaves? Do you lose your fucking mind at a pumpkin patch? At last, the epically funny internet sensation It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers is now a visual tour-de-force, teeming with a cornucopia of perfectly paired photos and seasonal enchantments to make it really fucking sing. Whiffy candles, wicker baskets, motherfucking gourd after gourd, and people going insane they love fall so much? Check! Also included: the equally lifechanging meditation It's Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers, because all good things must end. Give it to everyone you love, or put it on your fucking coffee table next to a pile of shellacked vegetables to really tie the room together. Perfect for: For anyone who fucking loves fall, and fans of McSweeney's, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Deep Thoughts, the Onion, and the New Yorker.

Download or read book Serious Roommate Problems written by Paul Arata and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serious Roommate Problems is the story of a man’s desperate attempt to save his marriage by writing the story telling his wife how he first met and fell in love with her. Pete Dominico’s narrative set in Brooklyn in the early 1990’s offers a dive into the complex urban social issues young people face every day. It follows Pete Dominico’s journey moving into the black neighborhood of Fort Greene a couple of years after being mugged and stabbed by an African American crack addict in New Jersey. The story follows how Pete meets and falls in love with Holly while he is caught in the middle of a dispute between his two Jamaican roommates that gets crazier and more complicated every day. The story highlights how relationships blossom with the excitement of attraction and personal chemistry and illuminates the breakdown of relationships because of men and women’s wildly dissimilar perspectives on love and commitment both when they are single and when they are married. This is the first novel of a two-part series with the second part of Serious Roommate Problems following the relationship when they move to Portland Oregon and Pete must adjust to life with Holly’s colorful western family.

Download or read book My Wife in Prison written by Ty Forest and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My wife in prison is an auto-biographical account of an inmate Cash Lucas' life and his love affair with a female correctional officer Heather Blake inside of prison. This book is a first hand account from an inmate from 2005 to 2008"--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Incognegro written by Frank B. Wilderson III and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro is that "comment." It is also his response to a question posed five years later in a California university classroom: "How come you came back?" Although Wilderson recollects his turbulent life as an expatriate during the furious last gasps of apartheid, Incognegro is at heart a quintessentially American story. During South Africa's transition, Wilderson taught at universities in Johannesburg and Soweto by day. By night, he helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda, launch psychological warfare, and more. In this mesmerizing political memoir, Wilderson's lyrical prose flows from unspeakable dilemmas in the red dust and ruin of South Africa to his return to political battles raging quietly on US campuses and in his intimate life. Readers will find themselves suddenly overtaken by the subtle but resolute force of Wilderson's biting wit, rare vulnerability, and insistence on bearing witness to history no matter the cost.

Download or read book Growing up in Bensonhurst written by Ronald Newman and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how I grew up living in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, from age two to age twenty-one during the late '60s, '70s, and half of the '80s. It talks about the dysfunctional family that I grew up in and the choices that I made during this time in my life. It started from as far back as I can remember. It shows the things that my mother had to endure in the times of my childhood, the craziness that our immediate family members were capable of saying and doing, and the lunacy that would came from our immediate family members and the new family members that became party of our family through marriage. It lets you read about some of the things that I have done and been a part of. It lets the reader laugh and/or get mad at some of the decisions that I made during this time. This book is entertainment for whoever reads it. Some readers may have had similar situations in their lives, or it can be for pure entertainment. The book was written in the hopes that whoever reads it, reads and anticipates the next page.

Download or read book Porter Brothers Tragedy written by Glenn Porter and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Porter brothers, Glenn and Steven, were in their twenties and had their whole lives in front of them. They found jobs and worked at a business where the wealthy owners had two beautiful daughters. Glenn and Steven pursued these two girls with hopes of marriage. The Porters eventually quit working at the business, and everything turned against them. The two daughters labeled the Porter Brothers as runners, men who run away from the responsibility of marriage, while their rich parents put out a statewide man hunt alert for the state of Maine. The Porters were blacklisted statewide. Their story caught on like wildfire through the rest of Maine. Many people were jealous that they could become rich overnight by marrying these two wealthy daughters. There would be more than one murder attempt on the Porter brothers’ lives in order to prevent them from becoming rich. This is the Porter Brothers’ Tragedy, filled with romance, violence, and stories of torture and disappointed hopes.

Download or read book Dark Waters written by Nick Haskins and published by Kcin Entertainment Group, LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Waters’ is a strong, prominent black family in Philadelphia with access to the good life. Money, power, and lack of respect flow through the tight-knit family as destruction threatens to rock the foundation they are all trying to keep together. Judge Waters and his wife, Lillian, work overtime to save their marriage, but when hatred and bitterness take over, all bets are off. Once the fighting starts, their children Keenan Jr., Naomi, and Saint go off into the world, wearing their parents' drama as a coat of arms. They then lie, cheat, and steal, causing havoc in the lives they come across, just like their mother and father taught them to do. Ultimately, damaging secrets and decade-old lies will all come crashing down around them one by one. Then when death comes knocking, The Waters Family and their shattered fate hang in the balance, wondering what’s coming next . . .

Download or read book Wicked Throttle MC The Complete Series written by Esther E. Schmidt and published by Esther E. Schmidt. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a legend amongst members of the Wicked Throttle MC. Something that's rooted deep into their DNA. None of the younger generation believes it, that is, until the first one falls. Once a biker finds its other half, there is no going back. Only one option; Love and claim at first sight. Dive into the lives of the members of Wicked Throttle MC and see how they let love ride their hearts. This boxed set includes the complete Wicked Throttle Series: Corban, Zerox, Barlow, Quill, and Beecher. Full length, insta-love, fast-paced novels filled with hot, alpha biker romance and their happily ever after.

Download or read book Souljas Story 2 written by A. I.T and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga continues, but this time Soulja has the money and power. He's finally living the lavish life he has always dreamed of while hustling in the streets of Gary, Indiana. But was the price paid worth the wealth accumulated. While the kidnapping, robbery, and murder of Slick, a local drug dealer, brought Soulja keys of uncut drugs, it also brought him heat he never dreamed of and consequences that lead to more kidnappings, wars, and murders. With warrants for his arrest by the Feds and a bounty on his head by the cartel, Soulja has to maneuver smartly to move all the product he has, so he brought in new members after losing old ones. So will Soulja be the last man standing, or will the Feds or the cartel track him down?

Download or read book Loving a Thug 3 written by Cayla and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part two ended in a BANG, literally. With Cita still on the loose, causing problems, Hosea and Chyna are more than fed up and ready to rectify the issue permanently. Cita isn’t their only issue though. Hosea’s ex-wife, Rae, had seemed to become blinded by her new man and baby, leaving Hosea to make sure his sons are safe and out of the way with all of the turmoil around them. Chief is still trying to convince Portia to give him another chance, but he can’t seem to keep his extracurricular activities under wraps. Instead of wooing Portia, he seems to be digging himself into a deeper hole. Portia wants to forgive Chief, but he isn’t making it easy. Her heart wants what it wants, but she refuses to look like an idiot over a man who seems to like sharing what’s supposed to be hers. Carrying his child doesn’t make it any easier. Can Chief and Portia get back on track, or will a surprise pop-up dismantle all of the progress Chief was able to make? Neesha is struggling with the death of her mother, but Kyng is there to help her cope. With Dee out of the picture and her sisters finally in a safe environment, Neesha is fully able to devote her time to building a strong relationship with him. But with happiness comes a miserable ex determined to destroy what they’re trying to build. Will Kyng keep his faith in his woman, or will he let a bad situation make him walk away and not look back? These six friends have been to Hell and back, but their love for each other can never be questioned. Sometimes, you have to love someone from a distance... Will that be the case for them, or can they all get their happily ever after?

Download or read book What Was Asked of Us written by Trish Wood and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-11-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern-day successor to the Vietnam classic Everything We Had, award-winning investigative reporter Trish Wood offers a gritty, authentic, and uncensored history of the war in Iraq, as told by the American soldiers who are fighting it.

Download or read book SPIN written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Download or read book Broken Deeds MC Collection Part One written by Esther E. Schmidt and published by Esther E. Schmidt. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Deeds MC handles crime cases the government can’t close; they take charge and won’t stop until justice is served. Broken Deeds MC Collection Part One holds the correct reading order of the first FOUR books (Deeds, Broke, Depay, Unforgiving) in this complete biker series where each book is a new couple, handling a new case, and can each be read as a complete standalone with a happily ever after.