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A property harbouring a gruesome secret goes up for sale. Two men--perhaps, the wrong men--are...
Nadine Ltaif's poems reflect deeply on the meaning of life, of regrets and the irrepressible...
In her debut collection of poetry, Conyer Clayton hovers in the ether, grasping wildly for...
How do you write about an artist who refused to be contained? Roy Kenzie Kiyooka...
At war against Napoleon near bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system acquiring...
A bored part-time college English instructor who teaches a class called "Humour in Classical Novels" to students who really don't care decides to try his hand at stand-up comedy, which takes him from his very protected academic world into an arena open to attack and persecution by his family, the public at large, the media and the courts. The novel explores issues such as political correctness/cultural sensitivity, personal and private space and social media, freedom of speech, huckster media, the notion of originality and most especially the nature of humour itself -- what makes something funny, what subjects are taboo...
"It's all out there in the ether swirling around like a giant dried cat turd waiting to drop on my head. Suddenly people are staring at me on the street, nudging each other, whispering: Look! That's him. That's Bruce Leonard. The piss comic."
