Cirrus@Austlit

A 'zesty, amusing (and serious) anthology of fiction and non-fiction on the theme 'slut'.'

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'23 writers weave 24 stories - real and fiction: funny, sad, creepy, arresting - on the theme 'emergency exit'.'

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'31 writers spill their guts about their lives, your lives, our lives … a compulsive collection of new non-fiction on topics from sex to self-determination, politics to personal legacies, and freak shows to food.'

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'54 stories told by 33 writers … each story is a chapter in the tale of the misplaced Café Gano, a restaurant in a small town on the Maine coast. The action takes place over one day, and as the afternoon progresses and the evening unfolds, customers’ lives unravel and staff decorum snaps to erupt in a crescendo of miscalculated faith and desperate bids for ultimate control. Yeah, it’s that crazy!! And hey, it’s funny too!

'Part Altman!  Part Almodóvar!  100% Pure Slush!'

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'5 poets … 15 themes … 75 different opinions … a mélange of misery, myopia, mischief, madness and mirth!'

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'Webster Murphy Allen 1925 – 2012

'Noted lawyer, opera-goer and philanthropist, father and grandfather, upstanding member of the community, generous with his time and talents and money … or was he?

'Obit. explores the many sides of a man many people thought they knew … but maybe didn’t. Each writer has taken an incident or an anecdote or a memory from Webster’s life and created a fully-fleshed man with multiple quirks … and maybe even multiple secrets.

'Where does the truth lie?'

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'Catherine the Great, Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, was a fascinating woman and legends about her abound.

'Catherine refracted is a re-imagining of her life and the legends about her. Her lovers, her illegitimate children, her wiles, her wit and her place in history … all feature in this lively reinterpretation of one of history’s most beloved and reviled leaders.'

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'Bar stories. Club stories. Dive stories. Pub stories.

'There must be millions of them, true and bullshit and in between.'

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'18 writers … 61 stories … celebrating food and life and food and love and food and friendship and food and jealousy and food and fun and food and families and food … so dig in!'

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Works on the theme or prompt 'five'.

'68 contributors submitted work on the theme or prompt tall …'

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Poetry, stories, and essays on the theme of 'summer'.

'55 writers get their freak on …'

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'57 writers riff on inane …'

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'73 writers do their happy thing … stories, poems and essays'.

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A subset of the Pure Slush anthologies, Seven Deadly Sins was published between volumes 15 and 16 of the standard anthology series.

'The premise: town librarian Euphoria Rivers has left town, leaving behind a scathing list of all those who have offended, upset and wronged her during her time at the library.

'The Shitlist tells us who made the list, and why …'

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'89 writers take on beauty'.

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'91 writers take on bacon …

'Featuring the poetry and prose of Alex Reece Abbott, Tobi Alfier, Jane Andrews, Helen M. Asteris, Cathie Aylmer, D. A. Bailey, Linda Barrett, Paul Beckman, Cheryl Ferguson Bernini, Steven Borg, John Bost, Sy Brand, Mark Bridge, Laurie Byro, J. D. Carter, Patti Cassidy, Chuka Susan Chesney, Jan Chronister, Michael Cieslak, Jennifer Clark, Robert Cooperman, Carolyn Cordon, Matt Cowan, Ruth Z. Deming, Julius De Smedt, Steven Deutsch, Tom Fegan, James FitzGibbon, AJ Fowler, Nod Ghosh, Michael Gigandet, Ken Gosse, Jonnie Guernsey, Samuel Gulliksson, Tom Hazuka, Mark Heathcote, Sharron Hough, Mark Hudson, Abha Iyengar, Doug Jacquier, Tim Jarvis, Paul Jauregui, Jessica Joy, Sarah Jane Justice, Kathleen Kenny, Len Kuntz, John Lane, Tracie Lark, Christine Law, Mike Lewis-Beck, Ann Liska, Lisa Marie Lopez, John Maskey, Holly McCann, Jan McCarthy, Lynda McMahon, Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz, Colleen Moyne, Remngton Murphy, John Notley, Jill Olson, Daniel O’Donovan, Eileen O’Reilly, Carl ‘Papa’ Palmer, Joseph S. Pete, Winston Plowes, Matt Porter, Niles Reddick, Alex Robertson, Eve Rose, Jennifer Rose, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, Leah Holbrook Sackett, Kathryn Sadakierski, Gerard Sarnat, Wayne Scheer, Iris N. Schwartz, Andrew Sellors, Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri, Martin Shaw, Jonathan Slusher, E. M. Stormo, Christopher Tattersall, Lucy Tyrrell, Alan Walowitz, Gertrude Walsh, Michael Webb, Hazel Whitehead, Debbie Wiess, Allan J. Wills and Rita Wilson'

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'86 writers rue bad decisions!'

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'102 writers take on life …'

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'89 writers wrestle with their appointments with destiny ...'