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Mendicant Bookworks


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Mendicant Bookworks is proud to present literary short fiction from a stable of brilliant, established small press writers. These unplucked gems have collectively spent decades publishing at the margins in a small press world that is, only now, reaching a wider international audience.

The stories themselves are both human and approachable -- stories that run the gamut: sometimes funny, sometimes dark, always well-rendered with casts of hard-scrabble misfits, dreamers, and madmen. At Mendicant Bookworks we are proud to publish stories that bring us closer to the world, to each other, and closer to ourselves.

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The Line Up    by Russ Litten
Price: $0.99 USD. 5000 words. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on January 17, 2012. .
Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by novelist Russ Litten.
The Terminator of Love    by Ben Tanzer
Price: $0.99 USD. 3110 words. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on December 26, 2011. .
(5.00)
He's Baaaaack! Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction from Emmy winner Ben Tanzer.
Something That's True    by Hosho McCreesh
Price: $0.99 USD. 5590 words. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on October 13, 2011. .
(4.00)
A lonesome mechanic searches the dingy velvet of his small-town strip club for answers and for Something That's True. Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Hosho McCreesh.
The Artistic Life    by Mark SaFranko
Price: $0.99 USD. 3710 words. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on September 5, 2011. .
(4.00)
Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by the incomparable Mark SaFranko.
The Graveyard    by Alan Catlin
Price: $0.99 USD. 3310 words. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on July 17, 2011. .
A motor-mouthed cabbie knocks a few back while extolling the vices and virtues of life driving graveyard in Albany--much to a barkeep's chagrin. Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Alan Catlin.
When We    by J. A. Tyler
Price: $0.99 USD. 3510 words. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on July 17, 2011. .
(5.00)
Mendicant Bookworks presents "When We" a series of three interlocked poetic-chains about a father and son, how they break and recombine, how their relationship is imagined and re-imagined, and how they are one -- no matter when. More fine experimental short fiction from J.A. Tyler.
Joe's Smoke & News    by Doug Draime
Price: $0.99 USD. 3850 words. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on July 17, 2011. .
A subtle, nostalgic, and haunting vision of loyalty, lust, and loneliness in 1950s Indiana--written by small press legend Doug Draime, and presented by mendicant bookworks.
New Carpet    by Christopher Cunningham
Price: $0.99 USD. 3270 words. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on July 17, 2011. .
Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Christopher Cunningham.
Honduras    by Joseph Ridgwell
Price: $0.99 USD. 3230 words. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on July 17, 2011. .
(5.00)
Better the paradise you know than the paradise you don't... Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by London's Joseph Ridgwell.


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