A. S. Coomer

Jefferson Wellman is a lawyer and has everything-money. He also has a particular taste when it comes to pleasure. And what Jefferson doesn't have he can purchase. His friend, Richard, visits him at his office one day with a contract and an invitation for a fetish auction by a new company. Bad Pain Entertainment guarantees to have what Jefferson is looking for . . . a 'ponygirl'. But when Jefferson shows up for the auction located in a remote wooded area, things don't go exactly as planned: Richard never arrives, Bad Pain's personnel are a little peculiar, Jefferson wakes up missing a few fingers, and the rest of the attendees are dead. Jefferson believes he has the knowledge to keep his reputation from being ruined. But what he doesn't know is he is now the focus of a new kind of fetish.

The Fetishists

Mike Kleine

Tatiana Ryckman

Gary Shipley

Christina Tudor-Sideri

Garett Strickland

Mike Corrao

Rosie Snajdr

Arielle Tipa

Grant Maierhofer

Germán Sierra

Candice Wuehle

Benjamin DeVos

James Nulick

David Leo Rice

Evan Isoline

James Tadd Adcox

Sean Kilpatrick

B. R. Yeager

Elisa Taber

Mónica Belevan

Judson Hamilton

Joshua Rothes

Ryan Napier

Joshua Young

Nathan Dragon

Andrew Wilt

Garett Dennert

Ali Raz

Vincent James Perrone

Kenny Mooney

Tyler Crumrine

Adam Tedesco

Jake Reber

A collectively written novel composed of 34 unique voices from the expanded field.

Collected Voices in the Expanded Field

Misdeeds is a collection of crime fiction from A.S. Coomer. It contains the previously-unpublished novella, Dellie's Ditch, as well as five short stories: The Goddamn Amazon Here, The Fixer, Trail Magic (Good Intentions) , Buffalo Nickel Hat, and the Pushcart Nominated More Rust than Nickel. While these five short stories have appeared in print, in one form or another, this is the first time they've been included in a single collection. Dellie's Ditch unleashes a vagabond Rasputin with ill intentions onto a quiet neighborhood in south Toledo, where he quickly begins inflicting his sinister control of the suburban children. The Goddamn Amazon Here lets the horror slip into the ordinary. The Fixer is the guy you don't want to meet, the guy who collects debts and fixes problems. Chances are you're not going to like the way he fixes things. More Rust than Nickel is a bleak look at the pale, seedy underbelly of America. Set in his hometown of Detroit, Cable is a man in limbo, no longer able to fully exist in the past but not willing to adapt to the present. Something's gotta give and somebody's gotta pay for Cable's hard-luck life. Trail Magic (Good Intentions) is an epistolary from a monster that preyed upon hikers and wilderness lovers on the Appalachian Trail. A casino in Toledo, Ohio is the stage for an armed robbery that doesn't go quite as expected in Buffalo Nickel Hat.

Misdeeds

There is a light and there is a darkness. There is, also, a space in between. Homer Antumbra inhabited this no-man's-land. In his flickering flame of a life, he shined the light and lived with the darkness. His life and work changed the craft of songwriting, both showing what a song could be and hinting at where it could go. His work redefined a genre before shattering any attempts at categorization. Shining the Light is the first in-depth look into the man, the myth, the music of Homer Antumbra, ensuring that the light still shines.

Shining the Light

A. S. Coomer

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