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Unlikely Books


Publisher info

Unlikely Books is the physical imprint of the electronic magazine "Unlikely Stories: Episode IV" (formerly "Unlikely 2.0", formerly "Unlikely Stories"), found at http://www.unlikelystories.org/ . Running on the web since 1998 (and the publishers of 2010's print anthology "Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind"), Unlikely features poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, interviews, criticism, political analyses, arts & culture analyses, first-hand accounts of political and cultural activism, visual art, movies, and music.

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    Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights    by Belinda Subraman
    Price: $1.99 USD. 3910 words. Published by Unlikely Books on December 31, 2012. .
    As a Registered Nurse, Belinda Subraman has worked in several difficult areas, but from 2001 to 2007 she was working as a hospice nurse. Hospice is the art of preparation, and when Belinda's own father reached his final days in 2008, she took what preparation she had and flew back to Carolina to assist him in his passage. No doubt she was more aware than most of us that no preparation is adequate.
    When You Come Again, You Will Never Go    by Andreas Morgner
    Price: $2.00 USD. 8220 words. Published by Unlikely Books on September 2, 2012. .
    The winner of the WRITE REAL GOOD Poetry Chapbook Contest (conducted in 2010): Andreas Morgner's manuscript, When You Come Again, You Will Never Go. It's a long manuscript--its twenty-three poems are detailed and complex--and in the process of forming it into a book, we found it appropriate to include a number of journalistic photographs, especially from Ed Kashi.
    Dr. Gonzo    by deb hoag
    Price: $3.99 USD. 35200 words. Published by Unlikely Books on August 1, 2012. .
    Dr. Gonzo: A series of loosely related essays on equality, visibility, and modern mental health, or, How the Mental Health System Drove Me Crazy, details Dr. Deb Hoag's efforts to provide effective psychotherapy in a nation of apathetic lawmakers and actively hostile insurance companies. Cover art by Gabriel Vrooman.
    Guttural Silk Make New Gong    by j hastain
    Price: Free! 870 words. Published by Unlikely Books on July 11, 2012. .
    guttural silk make new gong is a new chapbook of poems and photographic "poem-cells" by acclaimed Trans author j/j hastain. It includes seventeen intricate textual poems and four visual pieces on the subject of sex and love, approached transcendentally and transformationally. It includes an Afterword by Jonathan Penton. The e-book is free.
    My Hands Were Clean    by Tom Bradley
    Price: $3.99 USD. 24770 words. Published by Unlikely Books on July 10, 2012. .
    My Hands Were Clean by Tom Bradley tells, in outrageous and hilarious style, Tom Bradley's teenaged story of working as a musician for pseudo-Mormon polygamists who conducted Alister Crowley-style sex magick rituals under their place of business. Cover art by Justin Aerni.
    Soy solo palabras but wish to be a city    by León De la Rosa
    Price: $3.99 USD. 2220 words. Published by Unlikely Books on June 24, 2012. .
    "Soy solo palabras but wish to be a city" is a graphic longpoem (that is, one book-length narrative poem illustrated in the style of a comic book) written in Spanglish by León De la Rosa and illustrated by Gui.ra.ga7. Set in the crime-wracked border city Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, this poem explores life in the devastated city through the eyes of an academic and a "superhero" vigilante.
    Monolith    by Anne McMillen
    Price: $3.99 USD. 9740 words. Published by Unlikely Books on June 11, 2012. .
    Monolith, with cover art by Cecilia Ferraria, is Anne McMillen's first full-length collection, detailing everyday horrors of life in Cleveland and San Francisco; failed relationships, awkward sexual encounters, and always the specter of abuse.


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