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“Dead Souls: An American Poem” Chapter Four: Beware the Doppelganger

What do you do when you meet someone so alike to yourself, that it stuns you? The answer to that is in the fourth chapter of our serialized free novel, "Dead Souls: An American Poem," a continuation of Gogol's 1842 classic set in modern-day America.Read More →

Dead Souls Lesson, Ch. 3: Don’t Sell Votes to a Cheater

When you have the votes of deceased persons, and you're trying to sell them, it probably helps to find a buyer who isn't already up to their neck in fraud. A sales lesson from "Dead Souls: An American Poem," Chapter 3:Read More →

Free Novel – “Dead Souls: An American Poem” Ch. 2 Is Up!

Taber was a man whom enterprising women found most attractive, but not in the traditional, predictable sense of physical attraction; no, not that base, animalistic type of attraction. What he lacked in what one might term “general good looks”—though beauty be held in the eye of the beholder—he made up for in corpulence and, more importantly, political pull.Read More →

Dead Souls: Our Latest Literary Project

Our first novel "Dead Souls: An American Poem" is coming out this summer! You can preorder now!Read More →

“Self Made Man” Larkin Poe’s Romp into Rock

Rebecca Lovell’s is not the voice of an angel, unless that angel sported a black leather jacket riding a classic Harley.Read More →

“Call Forwarding”: First Place in On The Premises Fiction Contest

We'd like to make an announcement. Our short speculative fiction "Call Fowarding" has won the 35th On the Premises fiction contest. Hooray! Come and read it!Read More →

Tall Tall Trees Towers Above with Most Beautiful Single

We met New York-based banjoist Mike Savino at the Newport Folk Fest in 2014, and our impression went something like this: "This gent is kind and intelligent and when's his next record?" This fourth full-length, A Wave of Golden Things, is our sadly delayed introduction to Savino, aka Tall Tall Trees.Read More →

It’s Officially a (Pussy) Riot in the US

Perhaps the most famous Russian band since Tchaikovsky, the all-female protest punk group Pussy Riot has taken on Putin and corruption, Trump, and even Eric Garner's death at the hands of police officers.Read More

“Alright” is an Understatement: Nathaniel Rateliff Introspects and Soars

So you're still jamming to 2015's self-titled "Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats." So you're still impressed how well Missouri-born Rateliff dances in cowboy boots. So you're looking forward to Rateliff's third solo album (it's only been seven years since the last solo LP). Drop those expectations.Read More

“The Vote”

An Honorable Mention for the L. Ron Hubbard "Writers of the Future" Award, Q4 of 2019, the short story "The Vote."Read More