by Joe Clifford
BENJAMIN WELTON is a music critic, fiction writer, poet, and academic currently living in Burlington, Vermont. He has written for InYourSpeakers, Vantage Point, Schlock!, and Ravenous Monster. He can be contacted at [email protected]
TODD ROBINSON (Editor) is the creator and Chief Editor of Thuglit. His writing has appeared in Blood & Tacos, Plots With Guns, Needle Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Strange, Weird, and Wonderful, Out of the Gutter, Pulp Pusher, Grift, Demolition Magazine, CrimeFactory and the anthologies Lost Children: Protectors, and Danger City. He has been nominated three times for the Derringer Award, short-listed for Best American Mystery Stories, selected for Writers Digest's Year's Best Writing 2003 and won the inaugural Bullet Award in June 2011. The first collection of his short stories, Dirty Words, is now available and his debut novel The Hard Bounce is available from Tyrus Books.
ALLISON GLASGOW (Editor) Shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
JULIE MCCARRON (Editor) is a celebrity ghostwriter with three New York Times bestsellers to her credit. Her books have appeared on every major entertainment and television talk show; they have been featured in Publishers Weekly and excerpted in numerous magazines including People. Prior to collaborating on celebrity bios, Julie was a book editor for many years. Julie started her career writing press releases and worked in the motion picture publicity department of Paramount Pictures and for Chasen & Company in Los Angeles. She also worked at General Publishing Group in Santa Monica and for the Dijkstra Literary Agency in Del Mar before turning to editing/writing full-time. She lives in Southern California.
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Table of Contents
A Message from Big Daddy Thug
IN THIS ISSUE OF THUGLIT:
Mouthbreather by Joe Clifford
Pegleg by Ed Kurtz
The Last Job by Justin Ordoñez
Two Sides of the Same Coin By Christopher E. Long
Cinders by Marie S. Crosswell
Quiet Dell, 1914 by Benjamin Welton
The Neighbor's Dog by Edward Hagelstein
Chum by Michael Sears
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