You wait three years for a new SAVAGE KICK and then three come along in a few months. Each issue full of exclusive stories that foreground the dark and fascinating underbelly of literature. SK#8 is the first of them... CONFESSIONS deals with people revealing their darkest - or sweetest - secrets. That concept has been at the core of every issue of THE SAVAGE KICK. Previous writers Robert McGowan and Steve Hussy return; along with folks like Cathi Unworth and MSP's latest member, David Noone. SK#8 Contents: --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Cathi Unsworth --- Intoxicated Man by Cathi Unsworth --- Fourth Degree Burn by Amy Yolanda Castillo --- The Fix by R.C. Rogers --- Exclusive Interview with David Noone--- Confessions of a Tennessee Lowlife by Anthony Tinsman --- Secretary by Robert McGowan --- Harvest by Steve Hussy --- Mara by Grant Flint
I had learnt that teachers are almost exclusively smug, phony left-wing, backstabbing, pseudo-intellectual, frequently stupid, hypocritical cunts. But I better explain all that. "And why you need to run, fucking run, from them." --- After quitting teaching in his late twenties, Steve Hussy became an editor of Murder Slim Press. He then became penniless due to be being screwed over by one of his co-editors. Forced back into teaching, he follows a series of rules to ensure that he keeps his job... whilst constantly watching and writing about the strange and often repellent hundred-plus teachers that he works with. For Hussy, his students are rarely the downside of the job... The true pitfall is the charmless, corporate face of modern education. --- Hussy's sparse, venomous writing - first in STEPS and then in numerous literary magazines - has drawn comparisons to the darkest and most honest confessional writers.
It's here, folks. The Savage Kick Literary Magazine #7 will continue to push the boundaries of ballsy literature, mixing writers you know and love with new discoveries in the grit-lit genre. We could release a book every year, but we prefer to wait until it's just damn right. SK#7 is cooked perfectly... rare to blue with shots of whisky to wash it down with. The writers and artists in this issue are: --- Carson Mell --- Gene Gregorits --- Mark SaFranko --- Jon Terranova --- Steve Hussy --- Joel Williams --- Shea Hennum --- Mark Rogers --- Chris Rogers --- John Biggs --- Jonny Gibbings --- Joe Machine --- Oliver Pover The Savage Kick is ideal for fans of confessional and dark crime literature. Think Charles Bukowski, Louis-Ferdinand Celine and John Fante. Then throw in some Joe R. Lansdale and Jim Thompson.
To read Steps is to experience the thrill and disgust of real human emotion, to see the absurdities at the heart of all relationships revealed under the spotlights glare." --- TONY O'NEILL (From the introduction to Steps) "Hussy treads the same broken path that Messrs Bukowski and Fante have walked before him... Yet, he has a distinct poetic voice, a voice made his own." --- SUSAN TOMASELLI (Dogmatika) Steps' narrator faces a career filled with empty-headed liberals, a boarding-house full of grotesques, a girlfriend who can't stand kissing him and a brain that won't let any of it rest. But maybe - maybe - there's another lesson for a teacher to learn. Available exclusively in this limited edition chapbook and set before SK#1's Tara and SK#3's Wilson, Steps charts the origins of Hussy's days as a college and university lecturer.
Nuclear Deception The Mossad has uncovered Iran's plans to smuggle untraceable weapons of mass destruction into Israel. The clock is ticking, and agents Nir Tavor and Nicole le Roux can't act quickly enough. Nir and Nicole find themselves caught in a whirlwind plot of assassinations, espionage, and undercover recon, fighting against the clock to stop this threat against the Middle East. As they draw closer to danger—and closer to each other—they find themselves ensnared in a lethal web of secrets. Will they have to sacrifice their own lives to protect the lives of millions? Inspired by real events, authors Amir Tsarfati and Steve Yohn reteam for this suspenseful follow-up to the bestselling Operation Joktan. Filled with danger, romance, and international intrigue, this Nir Tavor thriller reveals breathtaking true insights into the lives and duties of Mossad agents—and delivers a story that will have you on the edge of your seat.
Do you wonder why bad things always seem to happen to good people? Do you want to know how to overcome adversity and become successful despite terrible odds? Would you like to know what a parkway on Long Island has to do with two evil dictators? Author Steve Borys has been struggling with these questions all his life. The conclusions reached in this book were arrived at after decades of getting beat up, making mistakes, and asking for help. You will learn about the trials and tribulations of the Borys family as they rocket through history on a horrific and hysterical ride. The hope is that these experiences can help you in your struggles and give you hope for a better tomorrow. If you are getting your butt kicked by life and want to turn the tables, this book might just be for you. It will at times make you angry, and yes, you might cry. You will definitely laugh, maybe even pee your pants, and who knows? It might change your life! Are you ready?
In Crying for a Vision, British-born poet, musician and performance artist Steve Scott offers a challenge to artists and a manifesto for the arts. This new edition includes an introduction and study guide, four newly-collected essays and an interview with the author. Steve Scott is the author of Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Post-modern Culture and The Boundaries. "Steve Scott is a rare individual who combines a deep love and understanding of Scripture with a passion for the arts." -Steve Turner, author of Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster. "Steve Scott links a number of fields of inquiry that are usually perceived as unrelated. In doing so he hopes to open wider possibilities for Christians in the arts, who may perhaps be relieved to find that, in many ways, they were right all along." -Rupert Loydell, author of The Museum of Light. Cover art by Michael Redmond
A humorous fantasy novel with elements of the detective genre, Fisher of Devils accepts common Christian beliefs and then does unspeakable things with them Opening in Eden with God demonstrating the use of Adam's unwelcome "quaint appendage," and ending in Heaven with the weirdest party of all time, in between it takes us on a riotous tour of the Afterworld. The rascally St Peter and his psychotic bodyguard St George take on Satan and a bunch of seriously pissed-off Fallen Angels. Devil and Saint have their hidden agendas, but are gradually forced into a dubious partnership. When not trying to destroy or save each other, they have to confront, inter alia: the impeccably mannered Beast of the Apocalypse; bones with a grudge; treachery by Satan's own ministers; rebellion by the original cannibalistic inhabitants of Hell; lovelorn souls in vats in Limbo; a rigged Second Judgement; conscience-stricken serpents; the gurgling (and deadly) Immaculate Infant; the Virgin Mary with her hideous secret. And at the back of both their minds is the memory of a certain woman . . .
This book provides practical hard-to-find help to fathers who are separated from their kids. It covers various relevant areas from legal and financial to emotional and recreational. This work is delivered in a down-to-earth and accessible style. Contents: 1. Separation; 2. Seeing your kids:the first few months; 3. Contact arrangements; 4. Court orders: dealing with family courts; 5. Mediation services; 6. Your financial responsibility to your children; 7. Ongoing parenting: become a great dad; 8. Building your own support network; 9. Paternity issues; 10. Parent Alienation Syndrome; Useful contacts; Index.
Book two of Last of the Shardyn A dark god, a police chief and four knights walk into a portal… Ex-commando and Montana police chief Skip Walkins's life just got a whole lot worse. The malevolent god Asmodeous the Pale has escaped to Earth's magical twin, Theia, where he plans to release his underworld minions and enslave mankind. Skip, in a fit of unwise bravery, follows. He ends up allied again with Gavin Blackburn and the Shardyn Knights. Desperate to warn the Theians about Asmodeous, the Knights don't blink at crossing a sky-high mountain range and battling a legendary necromancer to do so. The thing is, nobody wants to listen to the Knights' tales of dread. Immersed in a magic-fueled tournament for immortality, the Theians give Gavin and Skip a motley crew of mismatched warriors to lead against all the fury of the underworld. And if Gavin and Skip can't stop Asmodeous, both Theia and Earth will be doomed. See how the struggle began in Drynn. 126,000 words
A razor - sharp evisceration of celebrity culture and literary fame, How I Became a Famous Novelist is a satirical novel masquerading as a tell - all memoir. Sick of life as he knows it, Pete Tarslaw sets out to write a bestselling novel, armed with a formula for success cobbled together from previous bestsellers: he abandons truth, relies heavily on lyrical prose, creates a club with a mysterious mission, includes a murder and invokes ''confusing sadness'' at the end. Once the sales rankings for his novel The Tornado Ashes Club start their meteoric rise - thanks to a Christian evangelist, a recovering teen starlet and Law and Order: Criminal Intent - Tarslaw's inevitable decline looms, and his fall from grace will be nothing short of spectacular. How I Became a Famous Novelist is the hilarious tale of how Pete Tarslaw's ''pile of garbage'' became the most talked about, read, admired and reviled novel in America. It will change everything you think you know - about literature, appearance, truth, beauty, and those people out there who still care about books.
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