MIDNIGHT AT THE SNAKE MOTEL by Jon Tait

Midnight at the Snake Motel

Prose poetry by Jon Tait
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A series of prose poems that reads like short stories or journalistic ramblings of world travels, Jon Tait's latest chapbook hops from place to place, stopping for a moment to catch a breath at this station or that port before flying off to meet old friends or sailing to new landscapes. The poetic prose is sans punctuation in a James Joyce style of storytelling that tumbles one word after another in a waterfall of motion, always rolling forward, with hardly a chance to breathe or think about the rapid moments before another one comes along. The stories are of youth; discovering yourself among friends and lovers; following connections to make the right feelings click at the right time; exploring different cultures and subcultures with new eyes; and recounting tales of all the strangers, blokes, and characters who've shared laughs, beers, hugs, tokes, and tears along the path.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $4 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with three free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover photo courtesy of Gina Adore:
Gina in Vegas

Prose poems by Jon Tait:
Call to prayers
See Naples & Die
Rotor Blades
Midnight at the Snake Motel
Granny Glasses
Broken Spectre
Sunday Morning South of France
Journey into Space
Bad Vibes in Genoa
Birthday Balloons
Night Shift
8 'til 8
Pigeon
Election time in Civitavecchia
The Devil
Have It
Flying Keys
Tartans Flapping
Boom of the Bass
The Sundance Kid
Pedal Power
Cold Steel Trigger
Two Steps Back
Playing with Snakes
March or Die
Dirty Jobs
15 Miles
Blood Kit
Regrets
Picket Line
Cosmic Gratitude
Border Reiver
The Egg Shack
Good Karma
Comparing Tattoos
One Big Win

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BILLY AND CINDY by Stephanie Hiteshew and Dave Church

Billy and Cindy

by Stephanie Hiteshew
and Dave Church
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On Thanksgiving day, 2008, the small press world lost one of the good ones, Dave Church, to a heart attack. Following the deluge of tributes and collections pouring out of the small press to honor him, here rises a collection truly worthy and far different from the rest: an entire story of desperation, crime, beauty, struggle, kindness, anger, and love, played out in a series of letters between two fictional characters, Billy and Cindy, held expertly in the hands of Dave Church and Stephanie Hiteshew, with eerily similar reflections of their own lives and struggles on multiple metaphorical levels. Two of the small press' greatest come together here to bring to life the last work of the late Dave Church and the continuing excellence of the talented Stephanie Hiteshew, in a tale that showcases their talents while also underlying the true spirit and depth of their personal relationship, their trust for one another's writing ideas, and the blind leap of improvised faith each took in the passing back and forth of an unfolding story in one another's hands. The characters are real and raw, biting and charming in the same breath, sarcastic and sincere, pretty and ugly, empty and full, searching and complete, kind and mean, hopeful and hopeless; each existing in a world of paradoxes as they stumble from problem to problem, losing themselves but finding each other, losing each other but finding themselves. With 100 pages of writing, this collection of letters is a beautiful final tribute to the character and depth of Dave Church and his writing, and a must-have for your small press collection.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $6 (plus $2 US shipping; $4 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with three free random books from the archives while we clean house.

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