TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I: QUEENS ON THE FLY: BY SEA, HORSE, TRAIN, PLANE, AND SILVER SCREEN
"Alice Fantastic" MAGGIE ESTEP (Aqueduct Racetrack)
"Under the Throgs Neck Bridge" DENIS HAMILL (Bayside)
"Golden Venture" JILL EISENSTADT (The Rockaways)
"Buckner's Error" JOSEPH GUGLIELMELLI (Shea Stadium)
"Baggage Claim" PATRICIA KING (JFK Airport)
"Arrivederci, Aldo" KIM SKYES (Long Island City)
PART II: OLD QUEENS
"Hollywood Lanes" MEGAN ABBOT (Forest Hills)
"Only the Strong Survive" MARY BYRNE (Astoria)
"First Calvary" ROBERT KNIGHTLEY (Blissville)
"Bottom of the Sixth" ALAN GORDON (Rego Park)
"The Flower of Flushing" VICTORIA ENG (Flushing)
"Crazy Jill Saves the Slinky" STEPHEN SOLOMITA (College Point)
"Last Stop, Ditmars" TORI CARRINGTON (Ditmars)
PART III: FOREIGN SHORES
"Avoid Agony" SHAILLY AGNIHOTRI (Jackson Heights)
"Viernes Loco" K.J.A. WISHNIA (Corona)
"Out of Body" GLENVILLE LOVELL (South Jamaica)
"Lights Out for Frankie" LIZ MARTINEZ (Woodside)
"Jihad Sucks; or, The Conversion of the Jews" JILLIAN ABBOTT (Richmond Hill)
"The Investigation" BELINDA FARLEY (Jamaica)
About Akashic Books
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Akashic Books is an award-winning independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers. Akashic Books hosts additional imprints, including the Akashic Noir Series, the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series, the Akashic Urban Surreal Series, Punk Planet Books, Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery Series, Open Lens, Chris Abani's Black Goat Poetry Series, and AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series.
Our books are available from our website and at online and brick & mortar bookstores everywhere.
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