Why are we so obsessed with fighting? There’s an old saying:No bar ever cleared out because somebody ran inside and said “Everybody come outside! There’s two guys getting along in the parking lot!” Unarmed combat has enthralled audiences since the dawn of time. It’s primal. Visceral. Immediate. And often, necessary. Bloody Knuckles collects a variety of two-fisted tales and real life reports that explore every aspect of the fight game. The underground, the amateurs, the pros, and the faded glory of aging warriors. Open the cage door and step inside.

Bloody Knuckles: The MMAnthology

Literature & Fiction

Gonzalez, Michael Paul

Korpon, Nik

Conaway, Cameron

Henderson, Berrien C.

Strayer, Michael

Savu, Teodora

Priest, Ryan

Pedowitz, Adam

Berg, Carol

Genre Fiction

Thunderdome Press

In a dystopian world ravaged by war and environmental collapse, one man fights history to discover the truth about his wife and child. After decades of war, the brutal Tathadann Party restored order toshattered Eitan City by outlawing the past and rewriting history. Memory is a commodity – bought and sold, and experienced like a drug. Henraek works as a Tathadann memory thief, draining citizens’ memories. Everything changes when Henraek harvests a memory of his own wife’s death, in the hidden rebellion that once tore apart their city. Now he will do whatever it takes to learn the truth – even ifit means burning Eitan City to the ground. File Under: Science Fiction [ Memory Thieves | Collaborators | Brothers In War | City on Fire ]

The Rebellion's Last Traitor

United States

Angry Robot

When freedom is brutally withheld, the people have no choice but to rise up, in this post-apocalyptic science fiction sequel to The Rebellion’s Last Traitor Overthrowing the tyrannical Tathadann government should have been cause for celebration. But as Eitan City announces its independence, soldiers from the northern province of Vårgmannskjør storm the ceremony and annex the city. The cruelties of the Tathadann soon pale beside their new rulers' atrocities. Henraek finds himself resettled in the north, in a city where the people seem happy and well… until its labor camps and enslaved spirits come to light. The rebellion must begin anew, in Eitan City and throughout Vårgmannskjør, and now the stakes are higher than ever. File Under: Science Fiction

Queen of the Struggle

STORIES: Ryan Wilson – “American Trash” Stuart Gibbel – “Break on Through” Craig Clevenger – “Obsolescence” Nik Korpon - "South of Thirteen" Dennis Cruz – “Smile Now, Cry Later” Pela Via – “Bathhouse” Stephen Conley – "Don't Feed the Animals" Grigori Black – “This Was Heaven” Doc O’Donnell – “Your Personal Apocalypse” Nikki Guerlain – “Sick Ticket” Patrick Verhagen – “Swim” Craig Wallwork – “El Bordello Alexandra” Nicholas Merlin Karpuk – “Ahm’s Bay” Nik Houser – “Subtitles for a Silent Film” H.R. Tardiff – “Walls in the Sand” Richard Thomas – “The Jenny Store” Bob Pastorella – “Alexandra” Simon West-Bulford – “Project Asmodeus” Jay Slayton-Joslin – “The Fantasy of California vs. The Reality of London” Amanda Gowin – “Gilded Bones” Chris Deal – “Padre Nuestro” Boden Steiner – “Here” Gordon Highland – "Fry Girl" edward j rathke – “All the Dreams You Dreamt Retold” Michael Paul Gonzalez – “Tidal” Victor Bengtsson – “Venice, Forever” ABOUT THE BOOK: Los Angeles is whatever you want it to be, and nothing like you think. I gave these photos to a group of authors and asked them for precisely 1,000 words about what they saw. They didn't disappoint. Dreams, drugs, drama. Fame, famine, and fading glory. Few of the authors in this book have stepped foot in L.A., yet the soul of this city is so invasive and pervasive that the collection embodies everything that makes up this sprawling metropolitan mess. There’s everyday life in Los Angeles, from the shiny dreams of the Hills to the hard realities of life in the Valley and out to the Inland Empire, and even more stories that are purely the stuff of dreams and fantasies, the kinds of worlds that exist only behind giant creaking doors on backlots scattered throughout the Southland. Whether you live here or just want to visit for a few moments, you’re in for one hell of a ride.

In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words

Clevenger, Craig

Wilson, Ryan

Gowin, Amanda

Slayton-Joslin, Jay

Cruz, Dennis

Pastorella, Bob

West-Bulford, Simon

Gibbel, Stuart

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

THUGLIT, one of the most award-winning crime publications on earth IS BACK with another issue filled to the brim with eight hardboiled short stories that will scorch your eyeballs. IN THIS ISSUE OF THUGLIT: THREE-LARGE by Nik Korpon PIPE by Jen Conley JUST LIKE MARIA by Mike MacLean MONSTER by Marc E. Fitch PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY by Katherine Tomlinson THE CARRIAGE THIEVES by Justin Porter THE NAME BETWEEN THE TALONS by Patrick J. Lambe SPELLED WITH A K by Buster Willoughby PLUS: Part II of Thuglit's exclusive first look at the upcoming novel by Todd Robinson, THE HARD BOUNCE from TYRUS BOOKS

THUGLIT Issue 2

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Conley, Jen

Tomlinson, Katherine

Porter, Justin

MacLean, Mike

Fitch, Mark E

Lambe, Patrick J

Willoughby, Buster

Mystery

Pile your hair high, shine your leather jacket, pop the switchblade, and turn on the devil's music! Get ready to roar down the desolate American highway with eight tales of hoods, hot rods, and hellcats!"The 1950s are recreated one more time, but here it's with a savage, razor-honed edge you'll never find in Grease, Happy Days, or American Graffiti," from the introduction by the legendary Mick Farren.Hoods, Hot Rods, and Hellcats features brand new fiction from Eric Beetner, Chad Eagleton, Christopher Grant, Matthew Funk, David James Keaton, Nik Korpon, Heath Lowrance, and Thomas Pluck.

Hoods, Hot Rods, and Hellcats

Pluck, Thomas

Keaton, David James

Beetner, Eric

Grant, Christopher

Lowrance, Heath

Eagleton, Chad

Funk, Matthew

Radicals

Thrillers & Suspense

Down & Out Books

Damon lives a content life, playing video games and dealing drugs from his second-hand store while his girlfriend, Mary, drops constant hints about marriage. If only he could tell her his name isn't really Damon. If only he could tell her who he really is. But after he witnesses a friend's murder, a scarlet woman glides into his life, offering the solution to all of his problems. His carefully constructed existence soon shatters like crystal teardrops and he must determine which ghosts won't stay buried - and which ones are trying to kill him - if he wants to learn why Mary has disappeared.

Stay God, Sweet Angel

Perfect Edge

Old Ghosts

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