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A self-exiled man lives above a secluded dive bar in an attempt to keep himself away from the useless rigors of the outside world, only to meet a woman who will test his resolve, and definition of what it means to "merely survive".
"Bar Nights", the first volume of the "The Mire Man Trilogy", is a story revolving around Arlo, a man who's just turned 39. Fed up with the way his life has turned out thus far, he leaves his cheating wife, out of control preteen slut daughter and her "fiance", his unbearably demeaning job, and hits the highway. It isn't long before his car dies on him, and he's forced to take shelter in the only place available at the time: the for-rent room above a dive bar, named "Purgatory", positioned seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Convincing the owner to let him work off his rent, he spends his days | |  | | Ejaculation: New Poems and Stories
Story-styled poetry from the mind of author Dave Matthes.
Matthes' fourth volume of poetry and stories will leave you gasping, hurting, and in some instances, reaching for another bottle. Exploding forth with more of what makes him HIM, author and poet Dave Matthes details more memories of the past, tales of the present, and fears of the future, offering an honest, derogatory, and at times an exaggerated albeit detailed account of what it means to be alive in the most fundamental and vengeful way. "Ejaculation" is Matthes' most brutal account in poetic form yet, and promises to make the reader wonder endlessly about the very truth of their "norm". | |  | | In This House, We Lived, and We Died
A philosophical journey of a man into the depths of death and beyond, as he tries to piece together his new reality and make sense of how to exist, now that his perception of existence is dramatically redefined.
"There couldn't be a verb, an adjective, a noun, a pronoun profound enough to literarily liberate the emotion, the feeling, the thought and power felt below my feet as I turned onto that forested bypass, leaving the city and suburbs of my post-adolescence behind. It was freedom without a flag, pestilence without a cure; both likewise and subverted. And in lighting the spliff held gingerly between my aged, wrinkled and dilapidated lips, my destiny was prolonged only for the better. If the night were thicker, I might cast myself into an ocean of doubt. If my headlights were dimmer I might exalt | |  | | Lockless Doors in the Land of Harsh Angels
A death in the family brings together three siblings for the first time in years, for a holiday season none of them will ever forget.
It's Christmas time, again. Family gatherings. Company parties. Yule logs. Screaming fits of dysfunctional requiem. But for the three Ponce siblings, they'll be burying their mother. Edgar Ponce, the family exile. His brother Jean, the west coast porn star. And their younger sister Charlotte, mother to four kids and wife to the richest orthopedic surgeon in Western Pennsylvania. Reuniting them for the first time in over a decade, the funeral of their mother will only serve as the mere whisper that starts the avalanche of the next month, entangling them in their own webs of insanity for a holid | |  | | Paradise City
Sequel to "Bar Nights", tells the origin of main protagonist Arlo Smith from his early childhood and high school years.
It's the last weekend of the summer for Arlo Smith. During a simple act of innocence, Arlo and his best friend James witness a crime against the human soul. While James seems cursed by it, Arlo on the other hand doesn't react nearly the same, and instead takes another breath, and lets the summer take its course. For Arlo Smith, High School starts off with a train wreck, and continues to escalate through the woes and tribulations of every typical, average teenager caught in the maelstrom of "growing up". Friends come and go, some stick close. Among the mentally-enslaved teachers, a few stick ou | |  | | Return to the Madlands
Sequel to "Paradise City", and final volume of "The Mire Man Trilogy".
A decade or so following the events of "Paradise City", Arlo Smith finds that he is still somehow clinging to life.
Fueled by the revelation that Constance may also still be alive and waiting for him somewhere out in the world, Arlo Smith, now feeling older than ever, decides to make one last stand against himself. Obliging to the last wishes of a recently-deceased love one, and perhaps succumbing to his own obsessions, Arlo embarks on an open road quest one last time in hopes of finding what he's been searching for since that fateful day near the end of his high school years. What he | |  | | Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
Two people from opposite sides of the fence experience life through trials and tribulations, joining forces to combat their dramas occasionally, and by the end, confront the truest of grit their respective paths have to offer.
"The gravity of fate is nothing in comparison to the fleeting warmth of a loved one's last kiss..." ....thus reads the final words of High School Senior Joshua Feranna. Several years later, Lew, his father, currently working for a faceless loan shark, has dipped into a drug and lust-filled method of cope. Separated but not divorced, his wife Autumn finally tracks Lew down, begging him to come home to help take care of their identity-in-crisis daughter Zoey. But when Lew's friend from high school, Sarah Fox, having lived the life of a drummer in the all-but extinct rock band "The Bastards" retu | |  | | Strange Rainfall on the Rooftops of People Watchers: Poems and Stories
Matthes' third volume of poetry and stories.
Matthes erupts forth with his third volume of poetry, continuing his tradition from previous works "The Kaleidoscope Syndrome" and "Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel", expanding upon his view of the degrading and dehumanizing aspects of the world, the finer if not the more poignant nooks and crannies of life, women, both the beautiful and the truly internally hideous, and all things both living and otherwise existing now and hereafter.
This collection also includes the short stories "Don't Rub 'Em Out In Vain, Son,", "Seamless Melancholy on the Bayou", "Side by Side Again, On | |  | | The Kaleidoscope Syndrome: An Anthology
Matthes' first volume and earliest poetry and stories.
The Kaleidoscope Syndrome: An Anthology, is a collection of poetry, short stories, and other literary works by Dave Matthes, author of "The Slut Always Rides Shotgun", "The Passive Aggressors", "In This House, We Lived, and We Died", and "Sleepeth Not, the Bastard".
Poetic themes Matthes touches upon include prepubescent grit, suicide, existential acceptance, and abstract variances of spiritual reality in which the whole of society feeds upon, drawing inspiration from Jim Morrsion, Bukowski, and life in general.
Included are the opening chapters to one of many scrapped attemp | |  | | The Mire Man: The Complete Trilogy
All three volumes of the trilogy, "Bar Nights", "Paradise City", and "Return to the Madlands" together in one complete edition.
Arlo Smith is a professionally diagnosed bi-polar, pathological stretcher of truths, satyromaniacal, drug-addicted alcoholic. He may even be a murderer. Above all that, he once met a woman... ...who drove him down a path of chaos to the absolute breaking point of his own sanity. Arlo Smith is THE MIRE MAN, a man who spends his days perpetually soaked in whiskey, vomit, his own urine, or all of the above. His is a story, in part, about a man who finds peace in solitude filled with drinking, drugs, music, and the occasional, if not obscene, companionship of women. He is a man living in self-impo | |  | | The Passive Aggressors
Sequel to "The Slut Always Rides Shotgun", the author delves deeper into his own psyche while combating the ever-strengthening temptation of various addictions, with the help of a therapist who once treated his late father.
"Fate has a bitter flavor but a sweet aftertaste..."
Plummeting back down his eternally self-deprecating abyss, blending further the truths and illusions of familiarity and destroying what little reality he has left, only with the help of a friend of his father, a bottle of whiskey, a few ounces of Mary J, innumerable pairs of legs to spread, and a return journey into his own Hell and back can a final resolution be found...
Direct sequel and possibly the "other half of the story" to The Slut Always Rides Shotgun, this volume follows a more psychologically-based narrative than | |  | | The Slut Always Rides Shotgun
The true story, written in the form of a journal, of an alcoholic sex addict gone mad and his search for a light at the end of the tunnel.
Traversing the parallels and hoaxes of a sex-addict, within these pages depicts a random and defunct narrative of what could be considered an absolute travesty of collective insults and inane sexual debauchery and nothing but. The life of all nymphomaniacs, however, isn't just about the hunt for the next pair of legs to spread; there are those who actually fathom the depths of what it is to rot upon that all but elusive landscape...of "love".
Written in the form of a journal, The Slut Always Rides Shotgun depicts a very brief time in the life of the author. Written originally to pass | |  | | Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories
Matthes' second volume of poetry and short stories.
In this second volume of poetry and other musings, Matthes explores the valleys and peaks of the opposite sex; the precipices and the great abyss that is childhood and the inevitable if not involuntary surrender of innocence...and the hunger to preserve it. Death. Passing on. The unfathomable depths of sleep and other forms of respite. Dreamscaping and nightmare-unleashing. Matthes unleashes the beasts within us upon the blank, unused, and forgotten pages of our stories, and tears them to shreds.
Much like his previous work of poetry, "The Kaleidoscope Syndrome", Matthes conveys his t |
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Blöd Ties
by Ian Thorpe
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 Blod Ties - Fantasy, Romance. Romantasy? A bit of whimsy for the weekend. A naive British tourist John Gormley takes a holiday in the ancient, remote kingdom of Perarboria. He does not suspect that his holiday love affair with a local beauty is desti |
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