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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Something That's True by Hosho McCreesh
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Turquoise Truck
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,430. Language: English. Published: September 30, 2015 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Business, Fiction » Literature » Literary
A hard-up car salesman has a crisis of conscience over the impending sale of a Turquoise Truck. Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Alex Kudera.
Midnight Baseball
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,130. Language: American English. Published: April 7, 2013 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Coming of age
(5.00 from 1 review)
Brilliantly showcasing one of the lone, remaining adolescent rites-of-passage -- a boy's first beer -- "Midnight Baseball" chronicles a fathers-and-sons fishing trip that quickly devolves into cards and drunken revelry. Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Bob Pajich.
Love and Death in the Moose League
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,680. Language: English. Published: March 31, 2013 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
Former pitching great continues his career in the only place that will have him: Alaska In honor of opening day, Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Ryan W. Bradley.
The Sun Also Rises in the Desert
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 9,120. Language: English. Published: March 31, 2013 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
The moral and spiritual complexity of academia comes to bear as a "lost generation" of educators pursue an attractive colleague across a spate of conferences. Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Gerald Locklin.
A Strange One
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,460. Language: English. Published: September 26, 2012 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Pushcart nominee William Taylor, Jr.
The Line Up
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,000. Language: English. Published: January 17, 2012 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
(5.00 from 1 review)
Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by novelist Russ Litten.
The Terminator of Love
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,110. Language: English. Published: December 26, 2011 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
He's Baaaaack! Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction from Emmy winner Ben Tanzer.
Something That's True
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,590. Language: English. Published: October 13, 2011 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,710. Language: English. Published: September 5, 2011 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
(4.00 from 1 review)
Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by the incomparable Mark SaFranko.
The Graveyard
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,310. Language: English. Published: July 17, 2011 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,510. Language: English. Published: July 17, 2011 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
(5.00 from 1 review)
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
Price: Free! Words: 3,850. Language: English. Published: July 17, 2011 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,270. Language: English. Published: July 17, 2011 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Christopher Cunningham.
Honduras
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,230. Language: English. Published: July 17, 2011 by Mendicant Bookworks. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
(5.00 from 1 review)
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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Mendicant Bookworks' favorite authors on Smashwords

Joseph Ridgwell
Latest book: Honduras.
Published July 17, 2011. (5.00 from 1 review)
Christopher Cunningham
Latest book: New Carpet.
Published July 17, 2011.
Alan Catlin
Latest book: The Graveyard.
Published July 17, 2011.
Ben Tanzer
Latest book: The Terminator of Love.
Published December 26, 2011. (5.00 from 2 reviews)
William Taylor, Jr.
Latest book: A Strange One.
Published September 26, 2012.
Russ Litten
Latest book: The Line Up.
Published January 17, 2012. (5.00 from 1 review)
Mark SaFranko
Latest book: The Artistic Life.
Published September 5, 2011. (4.00 from 1 review)
J. A. Tyler
Latest book: When We.
Published July 17, 2011. (5.00 from 1 review)
...and 3 more