Vagabondage Press LLC


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Vagabondage Press LLC brings you The Battered Suitcase, a journal of art, prose and poetry.

Vagabondage Press publishes intelligent and imaginative fiction and poetry that explores the human experience in digital form for Kindle, Sony, Kobo and iPad as well as print format and distributes through all major online retailers.

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Tinseltown    by Erin Ward
Price: $2.99 USD. 19240 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on February 17, 2012. .

Los Angeles is a place nobody is actually from. If you’re beautiful, or just different and have something to offer, then you come to L.A. It’s America’s foster home for those corrupt oddballs with a gimmick, someone with a quick ace up his sleeve, and those too gorgeous for their own good. You’d think I’d be right at home in a place like that, born in a city that adopts all the lovely kooks.
Cat and the Dreamer    by Annalisa Crawford
Price: $2.99 USD. 21490 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on February 12, 2012. .

As a teenager, Julia survived a suicide pact, while her best friend, Rachel, died. Julia’s only escape from her guilt, and her mother’s over-protection, is her imagination. When Adam arrives in the office, Julia’s world takes a startling turn as she realises reality can be much more fun than fantasy. Finally she has someone who can help her make the most of her life. But can she allow herself to b
Beware The Hawk    by A.J. O'Connell
Price: $2.99 USD. 16270 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on January 2, 2012. .

Sure, being a courier for a secret, possibly terrorist society has its risks, but the pay was worth it. At least I thought it was until I had to make a late-night run to Boston to meet an opium-addicted, vodka-addled contact, who blows the deal. Now I am being hunted as I hobble, through the streets of Beantown. When I discover a gun and my new assignment, I wonder if perhaps I made a mistake.
The Watchmaker    by Caroline Misner
Price: $2.99 USD. 12610 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on November 12, 2011. .

Wilhelm Plum, a mild mannered shopkeeper, has turned a blind eye to the growing anti-Semitism in his country, naively believing that no harm will come to his brilliant young business partner, Ruben Geller. But as tension mounts throughout the fall of 1938, he can no longer ignore the danger.
Birch Hills at World's End    by Geoff Hyatt
Price: $3.99 USD. 60690 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on September 10, 2011. .

Birch Hills at World’s End begins between Detroit and nowhere, in 1999, when high school senior Josh Reilly senses an apocalypse approaching. A web of domestic strife, romantic rivalry, and millennial anxiety challenges two boys to stand together as their youth comes apart. Columbine... Y2K... can friendships survive the end of the world?
Jack The Theorist    by Jon Hartless
Price: $2.99 USD. 16730 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on August 13, 2011. .

Follow Professor Wolf, the world’s first Ripperologist, on his delusional journey into the world of the Ripper.
Jam Don't Shake    by Nicholas J Carter
Price: $2.99 USD. 18550 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on July 31, 2011. .

They seem so innocent: jars of jellies and jams. But the inhabitants of the town of Goodman know better. An additive in Auntie Goodtimes Jams and Jellies turns good people into rioting murderers when their supply is cut off, the factory burned to the ground, and the National Guard closing in. Is it really murder when it’s a matter of survival?
EXPERIENCED: Rock Music Tales of Fact & Fiction    by Roland Goity
Price: $4.99 USD. 55040 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on July 24, 2011. .

EXPERIENCED is an anthology of compelling narratives giving new insight into the drama of the rock music world from every literary angle, and exploring rock’s profound effect on our culture and its divine influence over the devoted faithful.
Candy and Cigarettes    by CS DeWildt
Price: $2.99 USD. 20800 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on July 16, 2011. .

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In the face of revenge, innocence is meaningless. Death is omnipresent to small-town loner Lloyd Bizbang. Today proves no exception. After being attacked yet again by a pair of sociopaths who have targeted him since childhood, Lloyd stumbles upon a sight he wishes he could unsee in the town junkyard. Now as he just tries to live through another day, the bodies are stacking up.
The He and She of It    by Barry Spacks
Price: $2.99 USD. 14640 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on July 3, 2011. .

A ’50s tale, seen from today, of two male poets in love with a demanding muse, both willing to do whatever her Dionysian heart desires - three gleeful and wounded hearts at play, sympathetic, ambiguous, engagingly human.
Now That I'm Ready to Tell You Everything    by GK  Wuori
Price: $3.99 USD. 32670 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on June 12, 2011. .

by GK Wuori On a beautiful spring morning, Serena Callaway wanted nothing more than a quiet, meditative walk along the streets of her small town. Then she found a toe, a woman’s big toe, recently pedicured, lying in the street, and began to realize that normal, along with quiet and certainly meditative, just might not be where things were headed that day.
The Tradesman's Entrance    by Cameron  Vale
Price: $2.99 USD. 14820 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on May 23, 2011. .

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Virginal Stephen Patterson is suffering from writers block on his latest money-spinning bodice-ripper, and his mood can only get worse when Dave the plumber shows up two hours late, mocks him, and plunders his pantry. But first impressions can be deceptive; Dave is a highly unusual tradesman with an odd line in biscuit-based philosophy.
An Animal's Guide to Earthly Salvation    by Jack R. Johnson
Price: $3.99 USD. 46700 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on May 9, 2011. .

Jeffrey Rawlings has decided to take a break from graduate studies and instead pulls nightshift at the animal while studying the modern philosophers - "from Kierkegaard to Marx" - to no avail: wounded animals hound his existence.
Children    by Maggie Clark
Price: $2.99 USD. 15940 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on April 23, 2011. .

When a missing person’s case collides with a mysterious website in the thick of office politics, news editor Chris struggles to balance a sense of futility with her desire to get at the truth.
All The King's Horses    by Little Episodes Publishing
Price: $2.99 USD. 22910 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on April 1, 2011. .

All The King's Horses is a collection of poetry, lyrics, short stories, excerpts of scripts and artwork from established and emerging talent. The 'expression of depression' series of anthologies arose from a journal and pad of art therapy pictures recorded during a stint in rehab. The idea was to collate similar pieces from as many writers and artists as possible.
In The Storm    by Karen Metcalf
Price: $2.99 USD. 25240 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on February 12, 2011. .

Abandoned by the world around her, Carly believes she is fated to a life of torment at the hands of her stepfather and is desperate for an escape. When she can bear the abuse no longer and gives in to a thunderous rage, she suddenly finds herself in an unfamiliar, yet beautiful, storm world. This limbo between dimensions appears to be her private sanctuary, but it may just be her purgatory.
Outspoken    by James Vachowski
Price: $2.99 USD. 14970 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on February 5, 2011. .

Abraham Jenkins is a teenage vandal, social activist, and aspiring revolutionary, but with only four months left until his high school graduation Abraham’s lifelong dream of attending Harvard College is put in jeopardy when he learns that he is still in need of two core credit hours in Physical Education. Unfortunately for Abraham, the only available spaces in a P.E. class are as a JROTC cadet.
Back in 5 Minutes - an expression of depression    by Little Episodes Publishing
Price: $2.99 USD. 27610 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on January 20, 2011. .

Back in 5 Minutes ~ an expression of depression Volume 1 Back in 5 Minutes is a collection of poetry, lyrics, short stories, excerpts of scripts and artwork from established and emerging talent.

Books

LOVE NOTES, A Collection of Romantic Poetry    by Vagabondage Press LLC
Price: $4.99 USD. 18520 words. Published on January 28, 2012. Fiction.

Love Notes has it all: a collection of poetry as diverse as the experience of falling in love itself. A shared candied apple, a farewell at Paddington Station, a name scribbled in a notebook, a face that leaves us breathless, a single word that changes our life forever. Love Notes is a rich tapestry of verse woven from fragments of life and those moments that make falling in love so irresistible.

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