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dispatch nine, "The Absolutely True Story of Peter Allen Dunn" by Kelly Jameson, is a historical and fantastical mix of a story of WWI, love, loss, and murder. Here is the first paragraph: When I awoke, there were puke stains on the carpet. I sat up. The room swayed. I needed a drink. Empty bottles stacked in my sink. Got up. Slowly. Half a bottle of Corona in the fridge. Finished it in two glugs, chucked it in the sink with the rest. Looked in the mirror. Someone shaved one side of my head while I was out. Maybe I'd done it myself. I stared at my reflection. Wrinkled dark blue T-shirt with food and beer stains on it. Hadn't shaved my face for two days. If I'd still had all my hair, I'd have said I looked menacing. “I look pretty menacing,” I said anyway. I'd only been in a town a week. I needed different friends. Friends who wouldn't shave my head when I passed out. Stay tuned to litareview.com for the latest free issues and more information. Very few of us have gone through childhood without reading at least one storybook or seeing one cartoon which depicted humans coexisting with anthropomorphic vehicles. Now, what would life in such a society actually be LIKE? If you've ever worked with large animals, you might already have a faint inkling. Add an engine to that, and you will understand why humans might want to step lightly around, say, a cranky, sleep-deprived helicopter. In times of great peril, there is only one thing to do: DIAL "P" --- FOR PIMP! During the 1970s, the hood was the place to be. Its streets were safe and clean, soul music filled the air, and every neighbor was black and proud, all thanks to their local protectors: the Super Pimps. Together, these urban revengers abandoned their previous careers as hustlers and hookers. Devoting themselves to the betterment of their brothers and sisters, the Super Pimps delivered justice with a strut, battling such villains as the Mo-Foe, Honkey Kong, Buffalo Soldier and their arch-nemesis, Darquefire, the self-appointed voice of the people with a penchant for violence and voodoo. But that all changed on one night in 1979... And the Super Pimps were no more. Now, almost thirty years later, the hood is a different place. Libraries and theaters have been replaced by liquor stores and porn shops. Brothers kill brothers. And the Super Pimps have faded into nothing more than a myth used to frighten ghetto children. But one man remembers the truth. Detective Jackson Maple still believes in his childhood heroes and sets out to renuite the Super Pimps, just as a familiar evil returns to the hood after so many years... For, in times of great peril, there is only one thing to do: Dial "P" For Pimp! For more information on this release, please visit http:///www.dialcforcomics.com Virus Comix is proud to present its latest online comic. Psycho Hunter was Ju Gomez's first character creation and was last seen in the successful comic book series of the same name, released by Hart Fishers Boneyard Press. Here we present to you an as of yet, unpublished story from the archives of Ju's creation. Please enjoy and thank you for your support with our work! To follow this release, please visit http://www.myspace.com/psychohunteronlinecomic The classic story of human triumph, written by James Baldwin, finally gets its due in this 15 page edition, adapted by rising comic creator, Joshua Santa-Cruz. In the heart of New York, two brothers, despite their differences, come together to realize that family and survival go hand in hand, and that music is the ultimate healer. 250 years in the future, the last bastion of mankind's technological might has been preserved in series of tube like cities suspended over the dense clouds that enveloped the surface. Here, the first truly independent A.I. is created, and lost. When the A.I. resurfaces years later, it makes an enemy of the CEO that runs the corporation, after she accesses his highly classified files. On the run with her three children, Sophia decides that in order to survive, they must flee their digital world for that of flesh and bone. With the help of her creator, they grow human bodies and genetically encode them with their digital memories. Growing human bodies was the easy part, getting away in one piece is the challenge. 29p preview of River Runs Red by Jeffrey Mariotte A CNN journalist kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq is held in a cavern prison, where he sees strange glowing images on the wall at night. A reporter for a local independent weekly in El Paso, TX, finds herself strangely thrilled to cover murder stories, even while her beloved brother is dying in a nearby hospital room. A CIA agent assigned to run Operation Moon Flash, the agency’s covert psychic investigations program, has to step in when his psychics start to die, one by one. An anthropologist searches an ancient rock art site near a small Texas town on the Rio Grande, hoping to find clues to her father’s disappearance. When these characters come together, they will confront their own pasts and each other, as combatants in a supernatural war spanning the eons and the continents, all linked by the raging currents of the world’s rivers… River Runs Red is the second book in a loose trilogy, linked by theme and setting, following Missing White Girl and coming before 2009’s Cold Black Hearts. It’s a big, ambitious epic of a supernatural thriller combining elements of spy fiction (and fact) with flat-out horror. Character-driven and fast moving, River Runs Red has more unexpected twists and turns than a mountain stream. To find out more about River Runs Red, please visit http://www.jeffmariotte.com/river/ To purchase this release, go to http://mg.booksense.com/NASApp/store/Product;jsessionid=bca93WuvT2i2zdjGgvaVr?&s=showproduct&affiliateId=JJM&isbn=9780515144772
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