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VIDEO - Gabriel Ricard reads Exercise Occasionally from LOVE AND QUARTERS

10/11/2018

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GABRIEL RICARD READS
EXERCISE OCCASIONALLY 
FROM LOVE AND QUARTERS

Exercise Occasionally 
When you notice that part of the sky
is moving even faster than your late father’s illness,
and another part seems to be suffocating under glass,
geometry starts to get a little weird.
 
And then geography starts telling half of its static story
with conflicting memories from dysfunctional families,
while the other half comes from a sense of chaos
that wants to eat the cynics and veteran travelers with fire.
 
It’s understandable that you just want to borrow a car,
a couple of comas, or the kind of arrogance that comes
with being young, taking a coffee can full of 20s,
and getting out to the west coast.
 
The unrealistic one. The west coast that someone told you
they remembered from a visit twenty-years earlier.
And you’ve been hoping to finally start saving your money
for something impossible for twenty years on top of that.
 
Either you’re dead,
or the friend of your father who told you that story is.
 
Your dad is definitely dead.
Your mom is definitely living with a generous sex cult in Mesa.
Your friends are racists with extraordinary job security.
This town doesn’t have a lot of use for you anymore.
But you’re staying. You can’t afford to go anywhere else.
You take anxiety pills for anything grander than the fact
that the state fair these days is the kind of thing that can fit
under your fingernails.
 
It’s better, you feel,
to be disappointed with yourself,
than with a thriving fish bowl of apartment complexes
and black market empires
that doesn’t have the faintest fucking idea
of what you’re babbling about.
Stay put.
Get old. Exercise occasionally.
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VIDEO - Austin Davis reads Flying Home From Indiana After Driving Past the KKK House in Irvington

10/11/2018

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AUSTIN DAVIS READS
Flying Home From Indiana After Driving
Past the KKK House in Irvington 
FROM
SECOND CIVIL WAR


Flying Home From Indiana After Driving Past the KKK House in Irvington
 
I want to tell you it’s comforting
to cry your eyes out on an airplane
because the jet turbines to your left
and the raindrops beating against the window
make your tears sound faraway,
 
but I feel like a birthday party clown
smoking a cigarette in the alley outside the bar
who just popped his colored balloons,
becoming one with the soft September night
with the orange embers falling into the dark.
 
The family in the row behind me puts their heads down,
afraid that empathy is a disease they might catch,
that maybe if they just look away for long enough
my tears won’t consolidate into the Blob from 1958
and eat them like angsty teens. I want to shut the fuck up
 
and stare with a poorly painted mask
into the purple clouds, but I can’t seem to forget
about the brick path in the back of my nightmare.
 
The one that curves down the hill
past the long white house
into infinite nothingness -
the woods, the grass, the primroses
with their heads cut off. 

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VIDEO - Austin Davis Reads The American Dream from Second Civil War

10/11/2018

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AUSTIN DAVIS READS
THE AMERICAN DREAM
​FROM SECOND CIVIL WAR

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The American Dream
 
If capitalism is an old blanket
flowing down the back of America,
those on America’s shoulders
think it’s warm and comforting.
Like a tent during a summer rain
or a parachute when they’re falling
through the clouds. For those at the bottom,
the blanket feels like a straight jacket
dragging through the mud - stained and patched
with ripped corners and loose threads
that rise in the middle of the night
like Medusa’s snakes. There’s always someone
on the top tugging on the blanket, trying to have it all,
so we pull with all our strength
through the darkest hour of night
but the morning never comes.
The sun never breaks a hole in the ceiling
and our feet always end up a little colder
than they were the night before.

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Moran Press Presents - The Paperback Edition of BLOOD CHILL by L. M. Bryski

10/10/2018

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BLOOD CHILL
BY L. M. BRYSKI

Moran Press is proud to present the paperback edition of BLOOD CHILL, a medical thriller by L. M. Bryski. Congratulations to Lisa and the entire Moran Press team that worked overtime to get this book released. Thanks to Jette Harris and Kelley York. The book truly is beautiful. 

Check out the description of Blood Chill from Amazon. 

In the blood chilling winter of 2046, the world has survived the Aging Virus epidemic although the threat of disease remains. Top researchers at the Janus City Virology Institute are seeking a cure, but Dr. Karin Bhaima, a scientist given a second chance, wants to know—why is talentless hack Graham Mogden one of them?

A corpse has been found frozen under a bridge, another missing and murdered woman, and the people of Janus City are demanding answers. Detective Sonny Merrick wants in on the case and relief from his own guilty secret.

​When teen orphan Marble Glass becomes the latest missing victim, can a detective with a painful past and a disgraced scientist find her alive and solve the mystery of the murdered women of Janus City?
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PHOTOS of Moran Press Titles - Courtesy of the Authors

10/10/2018

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#Poetry from CRUMBLING UTOPIAN PIPEDREAM by Scott Wozniak - Den of Demons

10/9/2018

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DEN OF DEMONS
CRUMBLING UTOPIAN PIPEDREAM
BY SCOTT WOZNIAK

​Den of Demons                                                                        
 
The last house
on the block was ours.
 
Neighborhood
kids said
it was haunted.
 
They could hear
screaming,                                                                                                                                                         
doors slamming,                                                                                                                                                    
glass breaking,
evil howling
from a block away.
 
The demons
living
inside
were far more
vicious
than any ghost
they could ever
imagine.
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Politics, Poetry, and Protest Combo Special

10/8/2018

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POLITICS, POETRY, AND PROTEST

Politics and literature have a storied and at times controversial past, with poetry, fiction, and essays by authors of the day becoming part of the political landscape. These current times are no exception. Authors from around the globe have picked up their pens to protest the policies of Donald Trump. 

Moran Press wades into the deep end of this pool with the politics combo pack - Second Civil War by Austin Davis and The Terrorist of Providence Street by Stephen Moran. These two books, one a collection of inspirational poetry that gives a call to action for this generation and the other a set of horror stories that challenges Americans to analyze their own culpability in today's societal problems, are the first of many offerings from Moran Press that will tackle tough issues of the day. 

Check out the descriptions for the books below. You can purchase the combo pack for $8 (with shipping included to a US address, extra for international). 

SECOND CIVIL WAR
AUSTIN DAVIS

In Second Civil War, Austin Davis issues a call to action for this generation. Composed of poems on gun violence, racism, immigration, and the nature of modern capitalism, Second Civil War implores the youth to take a stand against the bigotry of Donald Trump through non-violent protest and above all – to vote. This collection of protest poetry from Austin Davis slams a stake in the ground that the next generation won’t accept a return to the worst parts of American history tainted by white supremacy.

THE TERRORIST OF PROVIDENCE STREET
STEPHEN MORAN

In this collection of stories, Stephen Moran (Author of Ella) pushes the boundaries between reality and fiction. No ordinary collection, these stories paint a picture, a novella told in chapters. Mystery with a mix of horror, this character profile of Scott Holden is like nothing else you've read. Inside one writer's mind exists a hall of mirrors. Is he the creator-or a character? Is his work fiction-or a manifesto? And who set off the bomb at city hall?
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PHOTO - The Paperbacks of Moran Press

10/6/2018

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COMING SOON - Blood Chill, A #Thriller by L. M. Bryski - October 19th

10/3/2018

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​FINAL COVER REVEAL
BLOOD CHILL
BY L. M. BRYSKI
RELEASE DATE
10/19/18

The 21st century is midway through, and the world has survived the Aging Virus epidemic. In the cold of winter, top researchers at the Janus City Virology Institute are still seeking a cure. But Dr. Karin Bhaima, a scientist given a second chance, wants to know why is talentless hack Graham Mogden one of them?

A corpse has been found frozen under a bridge, another missing and murdered woman, and the people of Janus City are demanding answers. Detective Sonny Merrick wants in on the case and relief from his own guilty secret.

When teen orphan Marble Glass becomes the latest missing victim, can a detective with a painful past and a disgraced scientist find her alive and solve the mystery of the murdered women of Janus City?
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$15.99 SHIPPING INCLUDED TO US ADDRESS
(CANADIAN BUYERS - PURCHASE FROM AMAZON OR L. M. BRYSKI)
FREE PAPERBACK FROM MORAN PRESS ADDED TO SHIPMENT
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Dixiana by Austin Davis from SECOND CIVIL WAR

10/1/2018

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DIXIANA
BY AUSTIN DAVIS
FROM
SECOND CIVIL WAR


 
With my hands on my hips
and my right leg perched on a rock,
I piss off a cliff into the woods.
There’s something so simple
 
about letting the worst parts of yourself
grow into something new,
that in this moment, all the injustice
in our world briefly leaves my mind.
 
The image of migrant children
being kicked awake and beaten at the border,
nostalgic of the fetus like lizards afraid to lose
their summer skin, doesn’t even cross my mind.
 
I don’t think about how ICE made girls
strip naked before showering or how these girls
drank toilet water and ate raw meat
in the cages they were forced inside.
 
I certainly don’t think about Dixiana,
the 10-year-old girl whose tired eyes
began to resemble the sheet of aluminum
she slept with instead of a mattress.
 
I just stand between the trees
as the wind licks my back,
arguing with the leaves
as it pushes its way through the pines.
 
The rain begins to fall
and I begin to cry as I zip up my jeans,
considering for a moment
what it would feel like
to forget my mother’s face. 

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CLOUDY DAYS, STILL NIGHTS
SECOND CIVIL WAR

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