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Summer Brenner
Written in prose as stark and beautiful as New Mexico's landscape where violence bursts in starts and fits like the summer monsoons.

James Kilgore
White ex-convict Cal Winter returns home one day to find his gorgeous, young, black wife, Prudence, drowned in the swimming pool. Prudence couldn’t swim and Cal concludes she didn’t go in the water willingly.

Barry Graham
The dark ghost who haunts every blood-spattered crime scene in Phoenix does exist. "The Kid" has a love of cooking and reading with an appetite for violence, but he's ready to escape into the arms of the beautiful Vanjii.

Editors: Gary Phillips and Andrea Gibbons
An incendiary mix of original and out-of-print stories from the past, present and fearful future about the fight for a better world.

Michael Harris
A gripping story with three lives colliding against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in LA.

Benjamin Whitmer
Pike captures the grime and the rage of Cincinnati with disturbing precision. The words don't just tell a story here, they scream, bleed, and burst into flames.

Gary Phillips
Gary Phillips writes tough and gritty parables about life and death on the mean streets—a place where sometimes just surviving is a noble enough cause.