Daniel is a bike messenger in Chicago. He’s good at his job and takes pride in his work. In his riding. In the fact that he knows the city’s streets like the back of his hand. Daniel’s also in debt to his drug dealer, Lawrence. And when he’s offered a job to work off his debt Daniel doesn’t hesitate. It’ll be an easy job, Lawrence tells him. Just running packages.   But Daniel’s about to learn that things are never easy.   Not in this city.

Only Bones

Vlasaty, Daniel

Literature & Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Graveyard shift at the appliance cemetery wouldn't be so rough on Jeremy if his head wasn't turning into a television. Having his head turn into a TV might not be so bad if there wasn't a fanatical cult out to kidnap him and force him to father their savior. Luckily for Jeremy, he's got a talking dog with an attitude and a very pregnant sexy cult member on his side as he fights back against The Church of TV as God.

The Church of TV As God

Contemporary

Eraserhead Pr

Eric is an ex-con, bareknuckle boxer better known around his Chicago neighborhood as "Ugly." He wants to shed his past, build a life with his family, but his past won't be so easily left behind. His junkie brother Joe has stolen $100K from a powerful drug dealer--and Ugly's on the hook unless he hands Joe over. Which is gonna be hard considering he has no idea where Joe is. Ugly and his "business partner" Nicky hit the streets to find him, each step taking Eric back into the violent life he's desperate to leave behind. Ugly's done with it all. He's pissed, sad, and exhausted, but he's gotta keep moving if he wants any chance of Joe--and himself--getting out alive. Praise for STAY UGLY: "Daniel Vlasaty's Stay Ugly is a vivid, visceral and bone-crunching tale of loyalty, loss and redemption." --Paul D. Brazill, author of Last Year's Man and Man of the World "Stay Ugly is raw and nasty in all the right places. Punch-drunk bareknuckle hardman Ugly is our tour guide across nocturnal Chicago, and his quest to find his junkie brother is a bone-shattering, bullet-strewn treat. This book fights hard and it fights dirty, and Daniel Vlasaty has crafted a brutally entertaining dog-eat-dog thriller. Savage, visceral stuff." --Tom Leins, author of Repetition Kills You and The Good Book "Daniel Vlasaty has a unique and recognisable voice in crime fiction. His dialogue crackles, and his violence hurts. He creates a vivid world that you'll find yourself fully immersed in as Ugly--sorry, Eric--chases his junkie brother through a busy night in Rogers Park, accompanied by his friend Nicky. It's a tale of loyalty, familial binds, and asks whether one man can outrun his checkered past, especially when everyone around him is desperate to drag him back into it." --Paul Heatley, author of Guillotine and Fatboy "In Stay Ugly, Daniel Vlasaty continually pushes the story forward, compelling the reader to turn the page. This book is so good, so beautifully written, and so horrible in its consequences, that Vlasaty succeeds in ways few writers would even attempt. I would say this novel is darkly evocative, but what in Hell does it evoke? The earlier works of Vlasaty is my only answer. And that is a darkness I would encourage any reader of dark fiction to step into." --Rob Pierce, author of Tommy Shakes, Uncle Dust, and With the Right Enemies "Vlasaty's latest gutter pulp gem has the propulsion of a meth head driving a race car that's on fire. Simultaneously over-the-top and romantically mundane, equal parts Frank Bill and Sam Pink." --Kelby Losack, author of Heathenish and The Way We Came In "What makes Daniel Vlasaty's Stay Ugly pack such a potent punch is its heart. And this isn't 'heart of champion' or 'tenderhearted, ' or even 'at his heart he's a good guy' sentiment. Eric (AKA Ugly) isn't a good guy. He doesn't have some sacred street code he's ready to die for. Frankly he isn't going anywhere but six feet under. Just a question of when. That he knows someday he'll go down and not get up again doesn't faze him. All that matters is that until that day, he'll take his punches and get back up and keep doing the best he can in a fight we all lose in the end. And that, my friends, is the stuff of poetry and legends." --Joe Clifford, author of Junkie Love and the Jay Porter Thriller Series

Stay Ugly

All Due Respect

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Surreal Worlds

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Iglesias, Gabino

Griffin, Michael

Boston, Bruce

Palisano, John

Doubinsky, Seb

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Hughes, Rhys.

Science Fiction

JournalStone

Bizarro Pulp Press presents… A showcase of the written word that represents the best of the weird and the grotesque; More Bizarro Than Bizarro is a gallery of the strange and unusual, including possibly-dead detectives, a beer-head invasion, some especially delicious cookies, the dream of Jackie Kennedy, and of course, the best story of a talking penis ever written in the history of classical literature.

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