THUGLIT Issue Eighteen
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Across the aisle sits a perfect family of four, a snapshot from the 50's, the kids wearing round-eared hats with their names stitched in gold thread across the back. Dad's bragging about some app he downloaded, how it's going to cut the wait-time for all the rides at the Enchanted Kingdom. Mom just looks expectant.
Manero keeps his voice below the engine's whine. "I hope you people appreciate all the trouble I go through."
AUTHOR BIOS
Angel Luis Colón’s fiction has appeared in multiple publications. He writes book reviews for My Bookish Ways and is an editor for Shotgun Honey. He's been nominated for the Derringer Award and has won a writing contest or two. His debut novella, The Fury of Blacky Jaguar, is out this July.
Garnett Elliott lives and works in Tucson, Arizona. He's had stories appear in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Needle: A Magazine of Noir, Blood and Tacos, Shotgun Honey, and numerous other online magazines and print anthologies. You can follow him on Twitter @TonyAmtrak.
Dan J. Fiore is a freelance writer from Pittsburgh with work published by Writer's Digest, DarkFuse, Hot Metal Bridge and Thuglit, among others. His short fiction won grand prize in the 82nd annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition and his screenwriting was awarded the Pittsburgh Filmmakers Institute's First Works Grant in 2009. He's currently pursuing his MFA. You can find more info and stories at danjfiore.com.
MATTHEW J. HOCKEY recently left a nice, stable, boring job in Northern England to teach Elementary English in Seoul South Korea. Though his days now contain more screaming and snotty noses, he finds it a hell of a lot easier to concentrate on writing. He has previously been published by Shotgun Honey and has short stories upcoming with All Due Respect and Comma Press.
Mike Madden lives in Washington, DC. His work has been published in The Saturday Night Reader, Pulp Metal Magazine and in the Baltimore Sun.
AMANDA MARBAIS’ fiction has appeared in a variety of publications including Hobart, Joyland, The Collagist, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. She lives in Chicago where she is the Managing Editor of Requited Journal.
Michael Pool is a writer and martial artist born in Tyler, Texas and living in Gunnison, Colorado. His debut crime novella, Debt Crusher, is due out February 15, 2016 from All Due Respect Books. Michael’s fiction, satire and journalism have appeared or are upcoming in All Due Respect, Out of the Gutter, Thuglit, Urban Graffiti, That Other Paper, and Rocky Mountain Chronicle. When not writing, Michael teaches Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to adults, teens, and children. For more information on Michael and upcoming places to find his work, check out his blog.
Joseph Rubas' work has been featured in a number of ‘zines and hardcopy publications including: [Nameless], The Horror Zine, The Storyteller, Eschatology Journal, Infective Ink, Strange, Weird, and Wonderful, and Horror Bound Online. His short stories are also collected in Pocketful of Fear (2012) and After Midnight (2014).
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, All Due Respect, and several anthologies. He has been nominated three times for the Derringer Award, twice shortlisted for Best American Mystery Stories, selected for Writers Digest's Year's Best Writing 2003, lost the Anthony Award both in 2013 AND 2014, and won the inaugural Bullet Award in June 2011. The first collection of his short stories, Dirty Words and his debut novel The Hard Bounce are now available.
ALLISON GLASGOW (Editor) is all about that bass, 'bout that bass…
…no treble
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.
Blacky Jaguar—ex-IRA hard man, devoted greaser, and overall hooligan, is furious. Someone’s made off with Polly, his 1959 Plymouth Fury, and there’s not much that can stop him from getting her back. It doesn't take him to long to get a name—Osito, the Little Bear. This career bastard has Polly in his clutches, and Blacky doesn’t have long until she’s a memory.
Arthur lives a quiet life in London, wandering from the bar to the racetrack and back again. When his pension check dries up, Arthur decides to win it all back with one last big bet at the bookie. When that falls through, Arthur borrows money and repeats the process—until he's in too deep with a vicious gang of leg-breakers.
The repercussions are felt across the American South when a pizza joint in sleepy Lake Castor, Virginia is robbed and the manager, Odie Shanks, is kidnapped. The kidnapping is the talk of the town, but it's what people don't know that threatens to rip asunder societal norms.