| Publisher | Gauntlet Press |
|---|---|
| Limited Edition | 802 paperback chapbooks |
| Year | 2004 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 10 |
| Country | USA |
| ISBN | None |
The Fountain
The Fountain is a short story coupled with another story, The Piece of Paper, by Edward Lee.
This chapbook was given as a premium to those who purchased Sleep Disorder directly through Gauntlet, as a token of customer appreciation.
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Broken on the Wheel of Sex
Before there was Jack Ketchum there was Jerzy Livingston, a writer new at his craft but thoroughly jazzed to it, living in a very strange time in a very strange New York City, going straight to hell in a handbasket and loving every minute, writing stories for the likes of Swank, Cavalier, Genesis, Nugget, and High Society. Dark, black-comic stories mostly, the kind you might almost expect of the Ketchum who was waiting in the wings. The Sexual Revolution was lost by then -lost on all fronts- and only a few had noticed. He had. He was whistling in a graveyard.
Contents:
- The Hang Up
- The Heat
- Skin Game
- Bosom Buddies (aka The Burn Artist)
- The Rubdown
- Fixing Her Plumbing (aka Never Trust a Smart Cunt with Two First Names)
- Fish
- Dancing’ (aka Old Men Dancing)
- The Liar
- The French
- The Christmas Caller
- Head Games (aka East Side Story)
- Dead Heat
- The Making of a Religious Cult (lettered edition only)
Red (UK)
The old man hears them before he sees them, the three boys coming over the hill, disturbing the peace by the river where he’s fishing. He smells the gun oil, too much oil on a brand-new shotgun. These aren’t hunters, they’re rich kids who don’t care about the river and the fish and the old man. Or his dog.
Red is the name of the old man’s dog, his best friend in the world And when the boys shoot the dog – for nothing, for simple spite – he sees red, like a mist before his eyes.
And before the whole hing is done there’ll be more red. Red for blood…
Note: paperback edition also contains a sample from Road Kill (aka Joyride)