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THUGLIT Issue Eleven Kindle Edition
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SOUNDING by Matthew McBride
BLACK PEARLS by Jessica Adams
DINNER RUSH by Angel Luis Colón
A BOTTLE OF SCOTCH AND A SHARP BUCK KNIFE by Scott Grand
A PLEA BARGAIN TO PURGATORY by Kenneth Levine
LARRY'S PROPOSAL by Michael Cebula
OFRENDA by J. David Gonzalez
192 OVER 110 by Max Sheridan
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 30, 2014
- File size1457 KB
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- ASIN : B00K1UVSXW
- Publisher : Thuglit Publishing (April 30, 2014)
- Publication date : April 30, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 1457 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 151 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #338,089 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #779 in Mystery Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #891 in Mystery Anthologies (Books)
- #5,007 in Short Stories Anthologies
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About the authors

Angel Luis Colón is a Derringer Award and Anthony Award-nominated author writer of HELL CHOSE ME, the Blacky Jaguar novella series, NO HAPPY ENDINGS, and the short story collection MEAT CITY ON FIRE AND OTHER ASSORTED DEBACLES. His fiction has appeared in multiple web and print publications including Thuglit, Literary Orphans, and Great Jones Street.
INFESTED (MTV Books/Simon & Schuster, July 25, 2023) is his debut YA novel.
Keep up with him on Twitter via @GoshDarnMyLife

Max Sheridan is the author of the novels Dillo and Hubble. He lives and writes in Nicosia, Cyprus. He tweets occasionally @pawnshopguitar.
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Story one is Sounding by Matthew McBride. It starts out as one of the surefire strangest tales you ever heard with a former prison guard rattling on about how guys smuggled the strangest stuff in their body orifices, all as a prelude to a story about smuggling across the border. In the hands of a lesser writer, this would be pure dreck, but the writer has a great voice and you think that you're just listening to some guy at the bar.
Story two is Black Pearls by Jessica Adams takes the reader on a journey to the South Pacific where the pearl fields are. It's not exactly gritty crime fiction, but it is a smooth-reading piece.
Dinner Rush by Angel Luis Colon is the next selection and is a story about exotic dishes and guys making offers you can't refuse.
A Bottle of Scotch And A Sharp Buck-knife by Scott Grand is a treat. Sort of a Norman Rockwell painting with a bucket of pain thrown on it. It's a story of young kids speeding around on ten speeds and shooting the crap with each other. It's also a story about lessons learned about how to deal with problems. Told in the first person by a ten year old on his ten speed somewhere in way Northern California where Redding is considered a big town.
Purgatory by Kenneth Levine is a different take on a hitman story. At first, it seems like a Quarry story but there's a twist, an unusual twist.
Larry's Proposal by Michael Cebola is just a story about sibling competition and the difficulties that ensue.
Ofrenda by J David Gonzalez is a story that takes place in Little Havana and kind of leaves you with your mouth hanging open.
192 over 110 by Max Sheridan. From the opening sentence, this is the real stuff: "When I say it all started with a woman, understand that it was my wife who started it." And later, the narrator explains that, when he looks at his face, he "didn't see a place where real happiness belonged." Instead, he sees a man "buried in wet sand from the neck down waiting for the high tide to roll in." This bitter tale may be the best of the lot.
This was one of six books I ordered that were waiting for me when I returned to the States. That's a pretty exclusive list--the vast majority of my reading material is electronic because I live in India and the (English language) crime fiction available on the subcontinent is limited.
Anyway, this one was just a joy to read. While Thuglit consistently publishes strong work, every story in here is memorable.
Matthew McBride opens with the disturbing, graphic, and tight-as-a-f****** drum "Sounding." I've long been a fan of McBride's straight forward style and can't wait to read his new book, A Swollen Red Sun.
Another favorite is Angel Luis Colón's "Dinner Rush," about a chef trying to maintain his vision despite the moron he works with. Colón has quickly established himself on the crime fiction scene--I'm interested in whatever he's writing. Same goes for Jessica Adams, who has a wonderful, original entry in "Black Pearls."
I also really dug Scott Grand's " A Bottle of Scotch and a Buck Knife." Writing from a kid's perspective is challenging--especially in a crime story--but Grand pulls it off, crafting a believable and compelling story about friendship, tradition, and justice.
But I could have written about any story in this issue--it's that good. I strongly recommend that you not only buy, read, and love this issue, but that you get it in print.
Inside this issue-
-a crooked ex-prison guard takes a job and remains true to form...
-a married couple take to the seas to find adventure, but adventure isn't always a good thing...
-a chef finds himself preparing meals from very unusual meat sources for a mobster because of a partner who brings new meaning to the term scumbag...
-after the death of his friend, a boy sheds his childhood and delivers justice...
-a mob hitman contemplates heaven, hell and his last contract...
-a little brother wants to prove to his big brother that he's a big boy now...and
-after his wife hires a pretty young woman to come in and clean once a week, a husband is convinced she wants him dead.
There were a couple of poignant stories in this issue which is unusual in THUGLIT. Not that they didn't have plenty of blood and violence, because they did, but they dealt with themes like the loss of childhood innocence, and the introspection of the damage done to others due to a life of crime. Contemplative, and a nice addition.














