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An assortment of twelve stories that begin in the gritty depths of rural noir and slide down the literary spectrum into the tragedy and triumph that is contemporary realism; then shuffle through small-town America where carnivals and psychedelic awakenings are experienced, and finally, the last three stories take a detour into the strange and surreal.
In DOWN ON THE FARM, Army veteran Lyle Mullins loses his farm to the bank and is now being forced to leave. But for Lyle, cowering to the bank’s orders will not be an option.
In MY BROTHER’S FLAG, Jake McGee carries an abundance of grief for the loss of his little brother, which also hinders his ability to coexist with his grandfather who has come to visit for the summer.
In ARCADE MONEY, two boys go door-to-door swindling people in the neighborhood for a quick dollar to spend down at the arcade, but their cheating ways are met with unforeseen consequences.
In the Americana flavored CARNIVAL FUN, Preston Monroe sets out to see his favorite wrestler at the town carnival, but his course is rerouted by fistfights, barking carnies, freak show mermaids, and lizard people.
In PAINTED SMILES, a young boy gets to know his grandmother and finds comfort in an unorthodox family tradition.
In WHERE THE GRAVEL LANE ENDS, a brother and sister go on a strange school bus journey that takes them to see their deceased father.
These are only some of the stories to be found in this entertaining collection. Discover pain and sorrow, love and joy, and the strange and off-kilter throughout this entire mixture of tantalizing tales. (166 pages, 5 x 0.38 x 8 inches)
In DOWN ON THE FARM, Army veteran Lyle Mullins loses his farm to the bank and is now being forced to leave. But for Lyle, cowering to the bank’s orders will not be an option.
In MY BROTHER’S FLAG, Jake McGee carries an abundance of grief for the loss of his little brother, which also hinders his ability to coexist with his grandfather who has come to visit for the summer.
In ARCADE MONEY, two boys go door-to-door swindling people in the neighborhood for a quick dollar to spend down at the arcade, but their cheating ways are met with unforeseen consequences.
In the Americana flavored CARNIVAL FUN, Preston Monroe sets out to see his favorite wrestler at the town carnival, but his course is rerouted by fistfights, barking carnies, freak show mermaids, and lizard people.
In PAINTED SMILES, a young boy gets to know his grandmother and finds comfort in an unorthodox family tradition.
In WHERE THE GRAVEL LANE ENDS, a brother and sister go on a strange school bus journey that takes them to see their deceased father.
These are only some of the stories to be found in this entertaining collection. Discover pain and sorrow, love and joy, and the strange and off-kilter throughout this entire mixture of tantalizing tales. (166 pages, 5 x 0.38 x 8 inches)
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When Frank Jamison was released from prison three years ago in 1924, he wasn’t sure if he’d ever make moonshine whiskey again. He’d been sent up for possession of intoxicating liquors, being made an example of for all to see. Then his old customers came calling. Frank knew there was money to be made, and besides that, he had moonshining in his blood.
Now, he and his son, Raymond, try to eke out an honest living by cutting timber and continuing on with the family tradition of making backwoods spirits. When word spreads Frank is once again making his legendary whiskey, another local moonshining family, led by matriarch Edith Bartlett, along with her sons, feel that Frank is taking away their customers and ultimately cutting in on their own family profit. When Edith’s middle son, Jesse, decides to take matters into his own hands, he’s determined to create havoc for not only the Jamison family, but for anyone who gets in his way.
Moonshiner’s Honor is a story about family, freedom, tradition, loyalty, betrayal, power, and greed. (150 pages, 5 x 0.34 x 8 inches)
Moonshiner’s Honor is a story about family, freedom, tradition, loyalty, betrayal, power, and greed. (150 pages, 5 x 0.34 x 8 inches)
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FORSAKEN LAND: SELECTED STORIES brings in fifteen selected stories by Jeremy Perry from his books Hard Luck, Chicken Liver Blues, and other online publications. In this collection, you’ll dive headfirst into the underbelly of a fringe society in rural America that often forces many to live by their own rules. These are people who live in an environment saturated with drugs, crime, and other evils that destroy lives every day. This culture believes you need to get what you can, while you can before the forsaken land comes calling. These are stories of crime, rural noir, and hillbilly gothic. (245 pages, 5 x 0.56 x 8 inches)
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Chicken Liver Blues is an inimitable collection of twelve stories that at times barrels and swerves down rural backroads kicking up gravel and dust in its wake, and other moments it’s a calm late night country cruise that soaks up the stars, the moon, and the heavens while contemplating the meaning of life. Ride shotgun on this memorable journey that looks in on the struggling working-class, the old moonshiners, the backwoods guitar pickers, the demented Jesus freaks, the alcoholic spouses, the hard-luck writers, and other notable characters who try to make it through life the only way they know how…for good or ill. (194 pages, 5 x 0.4 x 8 inches)
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Hard Luck is an evocative collection of seventeen stories that glimpses into the lives of the often broken and downtrodden people in small-town southern Indiana. Some residents escape while others are consumed by their drug-fueled, crime-ridden environments.
A man’s love triangle goes awry in CRANKED. Sex, drugs, and gambling seduce the characters in LOOKING FOR ACTION. In the title story, HARD LUCK, a hard-drinking sheriff enforces his own kind of law. A once, imprisoned biker returns to his hometown to witness a backwoods, bare-knuckle brawl in THE FIGHT. In the dark, hillbilly gothic tale YOUR BIRD, MY CAT, a young boy is fascinated by the chance to see the female anatomy up-close and personal for the first time. A man rides the rails looking to escape the perils of his hometown only to discover a town much stranger and more unlivable than his own in BOXCAR TO PARADISE.
The stories in this collection spring in and out of the gritty country noir genre and often land in steamy piles of contemporary and dirty realism. (190 pages, 5 x 0.4 x 8 inches)
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Brothers of the Mountain: Heart of the Frontier is a collection of seven adventures that follows the lives of mountain men and brothers Henry and Lucas McCarty. Each story is not only filled with extreme action and adventure but also represents the special breed of men who were willing to risk their lives in the adverse and hostile conditions of America's western frontier in the 1820s and 1830s. The stories in this book have been arranged in chronological order. (152 pages, 5 x 0.3 x 8 inches )
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Moonshining is a common way of life in the poverty-stricken region of eastern Kentucky. For Frank Jamison, backwoods distilling is his primary means to surviving the harsh and uneconomical time.
Three years have passed since the ratification of the 18th Amendment, which banned the sale and distribution of intoxicating liquors. It was also then, in 1920, that Frank had his first run-in with the federal revenuers. The encounter resulted in a temporary setback for his business, but also led to the tragic loss of his oldest daughter.
Now, an insider has tipped-off the authorities and Frank is once again feeling the pressure of losing his operation. It’s Frank’s father, an old-time moonshiner with an itchy trigger finger, who steps in with readied guns to set matters straight and help restore the reputation of the backwoods distiller. (146 pages, 5 x 0.3 x 8 inches)
Three years have passed since the ratification of the 18th Amendment, which banned the sale and distribution of intoxicating liquors. It was also then, in 1920, that Frank had his first run-in with the federal revenuers. The encounter resulted in a temporary setback for his business, but also led to the tragic loss of his oldest daughter.
Now, an insider has tipped-off the authorities and Frank is once again feeling the pressure of losing his operation. It’s Frank’s father, an old-time moonshiner with an itchy trigger finger, who steps in with readied guns to set matters straight and help restore the reputation of the backwoods distiller. (146 pages, 5 x 0.3 x 8 inches)
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In "The Good Neighbor," a brittle and downtrodden man contemplates a neighborhood massacre. In "Kate's Funeral," a young woman mysteriously finds herself in the middle of her own funeral service. The title story plays host to a ridiculing wife who causes her husband to find tranquility in his prized willow tree. Also, an old writer bargains his soul to save his diminishing career, and a lonely, unloved wife seeks her desires elsewhere in "Secret Lovers."
These stories possess compassion and honesty and resonate with the pains and perplexities of everyday life. (168 pages, 5 x 0.4 x 8 inches)
