The war skulks in the outline of every shadow, wound about every heart. Words hastily scribbled on crumbling brick are but alley-testament to the myths ground underfoot and fed to the rapacious machinery of acquisition. In Bloomsburgh, mist-veiled and drowsing, the tidal screed that washes from mouth to mouth is gentle, even apologetic. The war is distant; the war is rumor; the war is already a memory. It may even slip out of dreams. But some find its silhouette in the suddenly empty boarding houses, the wails cut short in the dead of night, the beggars that mumble and turn ruined lives in their maimed hands. Most choose to sleep; some wake, whether they wish to or not.
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The Empire sleeps, as it must. Murmurs crawl from indolent mouths, the borders howl with old hatreds, and prayers arise too quickly amidst pleasures snatched from uncertain seasons. Ten thousand prophecies choke the Empire's infinite doorways, pull knives across the throats of beggar and satrap alike, and slick the machinery of commerce with warm blood. Its endless cities wail; its countless rivers surge; its depths brood in silence. But the Empire has endured such ripples for millennia uncounted. The Empire has slept through the ages; its dreams crush the world, pound it to mirror. The Empire has slept so that it might obliterate time, reduce all to dream. The Empire yet slumbers. There are those that would have it wake.
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Casalena's non-fiction work melds a millenial coming-of-age tale with a ruthless satire of the literary 'memoir' as a form, creating a space both self-deprecating and wise. Journey alongside the author as he learns what it is to 'live' in corporate America, battles against the forces of societal inertia, and comes into his own personal enlightenment.
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The Grey Alley is a semi-annual anthology released by Empty City Press showcasing various authors from all over the U.S. The second volume's selection features works by Don Karen Ann, Keith Backhaus, Maggie Cleveland, CD Collins, Donavon Davidson, Jenna Duncan, Meghan Guidry, Daniel Moss, Aaron Tullier, and Lucy Turner.
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The Last Place on Earth is a journey into the sediment left behind after a deluge of nightmare and happenstance. It is a confluence of symbol and sentiment, a stare turned inward upon itself, a hesitating look to the half-birthed present. Davidson's work waits in disordered thresholds and lurks at the edges of long, barren paths.
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Enough Said is a narrative collection of poems that trace the discourse of despair, indifference and joy. Potentialities clash against dead memory, leaving the grotesque and the mundane inexplicably linked. Zickefoose's work is a careful and vigorous deconstruction of gain and loss.
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In the dis-reality of consciousness, there is only one truth: THE FUTURE IS A MYTH. A collection of interlinked stories sutured into a novel of fractured identity, Backhaus' work evokes the bleak sentimentality of the self.
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Everything is Conditional Love Poems is a collection of related poems that interweave the mundane and the surreal. An amalgam of deeply worn and deliberately manipulated cliches roil and interweave to create unsettling, eerily apt reflections of the human experience; Davidson's work does more than transform the familiar, it transcends it.
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The Grey Alley is a semi-annual anthology released by Empty City Press showcasing various authors from all over the U.S. This selection features works by Keith Backhaus, Michael Casalena, D'Metrius John Cauthorne, Donavon Davidson, Tuvia Dulin, Jenna Duncan, Meghan Guidry, Alicin Mack, Suzanne McDonald, Megan Rippey, Benjamin Stoehr, Aaron Tullier, and Chris Zickefoose.
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Afterheat is the term for extreme temperatures generated by nuclear explosions and nuclear reactors. It is a persistent heat that must be removed now and a year from now. Dangerous and explosive, it is a fire that cannot be put out. Like memory.
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Ages or moments, it hardly matters. What to do when cast adrift in a vast ocean? What to do when survival comes at the price of one's own sanity? The world is different now, but when is now? A man wakes but with one burning memory: a war that unmade the world, that ended reality itself. So what then, is this? An ocean populated by dreams, forests without end, a vast desert that swallows time itself--these are rumor manifest, truths that seem familiar and yet so alien. Beyond them: crawling cities, ancient empires, labyrinthine cosmologies. Each builds upon the other, cancerous and insatiable. Truth is somehwhere on the next horizon, or it is drawn bloated and dead from the sea. The past is a myth that no one seems to believe; the future is an unfulfilled prophecy that cannot be true.Between are the all too familiar struggles for power, loves caught in complexity, the peace at the center of the heart. Can a traitor be made whole again? Can a killer be redeemed? Can a liar be believed? Life is a maelstrom. In the center, a man walks. The world turns with him.
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Among the crumbling tenements, beneath a mustard-yellow sky, something in Radnor is waking up. The war limps on, half-dead and dazed. A fever sweeps through the crowds, picking away at the weak, the infirm. Ideas and memories swirl through the thick air. Mosquito wings whisper blasphemies into the ears of the faithless population. But something somewhere is waking up. In a child-brothel a boy pulls words through skin while a priest of empty faith seeks more than salvation. Across town, a painter rots in regret. Each resonates with a secret language, an axiom that will come to define an era.
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