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December 16, 2013
FEMALE TROUBLE ZINE #1
FEMALE TROUBLE is making our first zine. Interviews, art, articles, and a chunk devoted to some old Velvet Underground fanzines we got our paws on. We are offering some FREE classified ad space for Gainesville, FL lady musicians. So if you’ve got a musician wanted ad or you’re selling some gear or whatever please submit!
Please reblog so we can get the word out!
Hey ladies!
December 13, 2013
December 9, 2013
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HALF OFF EVERYTHING, YEA, WE SAID HALF OFF EVERYTHING
Half off everything means this:
If you buy the Piles of Poetry option, it is now $15
If you buy either print issue, you get the other one free ($8)
With the Piles of Poetry, you get both in-stock print issues, a spoken word mix tape, a chapbook, and a t-shirt!
With the print issues, you get 2 for 1 pricing, and work that you can’t get anywhere else by some great authors, including: Noah Cicero, Melissa Broder, Erik Stinson, Michael Seidlinger, Chelsea Martin, Ken Baumann, Elizabeth Ellen, King Stimie, Yasmin Belkhyr, Chris Killen, Timothy Willis Sanders, Maia Ibar, Andrew James Weatherhead, Fernando Garcia, David Fishkind, and more.
Buy a good Xmas present for your loved ones now in the Store.
And have a Merry Fucking Christmas
Half off some good shit!
December 6, 2013
NEW BOOK IS OUT!
My new short story collection, The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow is out at Amazon.com! 120 pages! Includes two cut-out mustaches! Deal of the century! Tell your friends.
Twenty-one comically gut-wrenching stories—highlighting schemers, dreamers, losers, boozers, stolen televisions, professional wrestlers, self-mutilators, compulsive masturbators, shoe fetishists, and a dead cat named Johnny Thunders—BRIAN ALAN ELLIS delivers a debauched world where sex is empty, life is meaningless, addictions are required, and nobody can ever get it together.
“Impossible to put down… [Ellis] captures the subtle nuances of those unavoidable bruises life offers—touching on themes of love and relationships; art and poetry; depression and loneliness; family; heartbreak; poverty and addiction… these dark and seedy snapshots take readers to a place where loneliness is replaced with an ever-present bottle, and friends come in the form of fistfuls of pills.”
—Ale Gasso, author, Poems from Dark Places
“[The book] climbs on top of you and pounds your head full of profoundly distinct characters, hilariously disturbing plots, and veracious insights on the ‘sick-sad’ depths of human existence. Surreal notions of reality painted across the page in cheap beer stains and undeniable narrative genius.
—Kona Morris, co-founder/editor, Fast Forward Press
“[Ellis] reveals a bit of tender flesh beneath the hard facade of his anti-heroes, and shows you that underneath all the ugly bits, bleeding wounds and broken glass, that everyone’s got something salvageable inside.”
—Allie Marini Batts, author, You Might Curse before You Bless
December 1, 2013
Very soon it will be coming on your face.
Very soon it will be coming on your face.
November 19, 2013
November 15, 2013
Crack The Spine: Issue Eighty-Seven
Crack the Spine Literary Magazine
Why must you leave me in this room? It has cobwebs, I said, and there are broken bottles everywhere that can cut me if I should happen to fall on them drunkenly.
“So Long Shakespeare,” some dumb shit I wrote once, is in Crack The Spine #87.
November 11, 2013
Smashwords – Eulogy for Johnny Thunders —a book by Brian Ellis
I think of Johnny—snow-leopard white, with brown and gray spots circling his belly—sitting outside the bathroom door, purring, as Phoebe and I showered; or sleeping at the corner of the bed, somehow peaceful, during the sound and fury of Phoebe and I hate-fucking.
Check out Eulogy of Johnny Thunders, my new estory on smashwords.com, for free. FREE!
November 7, 2013
The Round Up Writer's Zine | The Round Up Writer's Zine – Short stories, poems and other literary musings with an edge.
Ever hear about the time I drank rubbing alcohol at a graduation party and almost died? Read about it in the special “Moonshine” edition of The Round Up Writer’s Zine, among other equally depraved and embarrassing stories from other codependent authors!
October 31, 2013
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Happy Halloween! Now, go read my spooky story, “Halloween Decorations,” from Diverse Voices Quarterly!
