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A collection of short stories by Gabriel Ricard

Bondage Night chronicles the vicious climax of a chaotic, intense, compulsion-driven love affair between two unhappy, delusional people. Gabriel Ricard's debut novel shows what brought them together in the first place. Then comes the surreal, exhausted aftermath. Through it all, the protagonists persevere. But by the time it finally ends, Leo and Laura may never be the same.

A follow-up to the 2014 Kleft Jaw Press poetry collection Clouds of Hungry Dogs, Gabriel Ricard's 2nd poetry book is about coming to terms with the good, the bad, and the reliably hideous. The world is a badly run 1890s-style asylum, but at least there's a lot of good stuff on TV. Love and Quarters goes deep into love, depression, high adventures in the great outdoors, and whatever the hell else may happen while in transit.No, even these days, it's still handy to have a few quarters on you.

GABRIEL RICARD returns to fiction with a collection of 6 horror stories, including a young man's surreal encounter with vampires, a desperate last date in a shimmering shopping mall, and the long-drawn consequences of a demon invasion. PRAISE FOR BENNY THE HAUNTED TOYMAKER GROWS UP "Gabriel Ricard's debut collection of short horror stories, Benny the Haunted Toymaker Grows Up And Other Stories, is truly disturbing and trending beyond the norm. Intelligent and compelling, his tales really pull you into Ricard's otherworldly and intriguing universe." Barbie Wilde - Actress, "Hellraiser 2", Author, "The Venus Complex" "The wit may be bone dry, but the dread conjured up by Ricard's stories bleeds right on out from every page. Kelly Link fans take note." Clay McLeod Chapman - Author, Whisper Down the Lane

Ricard and Ridgeway's poetry is like candy. No, their poetry is like shoplifting candy from the big box store that squashed your fave mom and pop shop. The poems of A Ludicrous Split live in those moments of dark surprise and sweet despair; the moments when your pockets bulge with illicit sugar and you're sticking it to the Man however you can. These poems give us this strange world we live in made both stranger and even more familiar; they pivot and turn, words dancing with the uncanny, like finding still warm toast on your doorstep or hearing a mime swear. In the poems of A Ludicrous Split, Ricard and Ridgeway give us the poems we've all earned, poems that rattle our bones while getting us through to better days. Reading these poems, we can all say, some day, yes, some day. Ryder Collins

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72 pages of poetry edited/cover art by: Frankie Metro & Sam TsohonisGabriel Ricard's Clouds of Hungry Dogs is an ontological color wheel dictating the garish narrative through the ambivalent barriers between Midwest & rural East America. Poems like Lovely Janice & Resting On A Flat Universe serve like canon as compass, or the brunt side of every sucker punch/bad joke.

The best fiction and poetry featured over the past year in the online literary journal Drunk Monkeys. Featuring fiction from Bud Smith and Gessy Alvarez and poetry from Kevin Ridgeway, Frankie Met, William Lessard. Plus essays on Star Wars, illustrations, the Donald Trump campaign speech generator, and much more!

Kleft Jaw Press Semi-Quarterly Journal of transcendental realism. www.kleftjaw.com

Amazing to me that in 25 years, I've never written poems about pro wrestling. I've written fan fiction and other things when I was much younger, but never poems along these lines. I've broken everything down into three sections. One for my memories. One for random topics I felt like writing about. The third is a shoot interview with a fictional wrestler named Mark Prime. When Dan Wright asked me if I was interested in doing this book with him, a lot of different ideas and anecdotes from my past suddenly came rushing to me. I realized as I started writing these that I had far more negative associations with this weird, amazing form of athletic entertainment than positive ones. This book doesn't change that, but it did go a long way towards making me understand why I stopped watching to a significant extent a few years ago. But I'll always be a fan. It's hard to shake something that has been part of my life in some form or fashion for about 35 years. Like music and film, wrestling has been meaningful to my influences and dreams and ideas in ways that are hard, perhaps silly, to explain. No matter what, I can't seem to quit wrestling as a fan entirely. Writing these poems reminded me of everything in wrestling that depresses me, and everything about wrestling that tires out my enthusiasm. At the same time, this book gave me more enthusiasm for what I do love about this sport than I've felt in quite possibly a full decade. I've exercised through writing some of the things about pro wrestling that annoy or sadden me, particularly most wrestling fans. What's left is a book I'm very proud of about a subject I'm glad has been part of my life. Wrestling is surreal, heroic, ridiculous, dangerous, and ultimately something that never fails to surprise me. It's still real to me dammit.