Bøger udgivet af Raging Aardvark Publishing

A collection of flash fiction which will challenge and delight readers. All over the place in the space of a mind. Short and shorter stories that "are sometimes very funny and sometimes very moving, and often they are both at once, ..." - Robert Olen Butler

Interspersed with artwork, Consuming the Muse is a collection of erotic tales flirting with time, space and the senses, on a woman's journey through Eros. Some of these stories may titillate, some may make you think. Sensual: of the senses or the indulgence of appetite: fleshy, sensory; devoted to, or preoccupied with, the senses or appetites; voluptuous... Food, drink, Dionysian indulgences, passion, obsession dominate AstridL's collection of erotic stories. Some are amuse-bouches, 'By the Skin of the Nose, ' and others a groaning-board of orgiastic excess. I loved 'Dancing with Chopsticks' and chuckled through, 'It's All in the Nose.' Appetites of all sorts are bound together as the most essential of human need, and it's done with intelligence and wit, with twists that lend piquancy in unexpected places and ways. Interspersing these are the palate cleansing, 'Soul Kill' and, notably, the gentle, sad, 'Just Lunch.' What struck me as I read through the book was the growing maturity of voice in the stories, playful, naughty, stunning, turning thoughtful, detailed, beautifully crafted. It's an interesting read, complex and varied. I hope you enjoy it. Helena Settimana. AstridL has a wonderful way of combining the art of arousal with the art of cooking. Her writing mixes both subjects in such a beautiful way as to arouse all of one's senses at once. What an incredible feat and such a luscious treat for her readers. Jamie Joy Gatto (Editor-in-Chief of Mind Caviar)

New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan is an anthology of stories, flash fiction, poems, haibun, haiku and artwork and photography donated by over 60 creators from all over the world to support those in Japan still affected by the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami and earthquake. All monies go the Japanese Red Cross. This anthology was prepared by an international team of volunteers and includes the donation of a poem in German with English translation by award-winning Austrian poet and writer, Friederike Mayröcker. Greg Mc Queen, founder of 100 Stories for Haiti and 50 Stories for Pakistan says this: "You're holding a book that beat the odds. A book made from determination. From compassion. And by holding it - buying it - reading it - telling others about it - you stand with the writers and artists who created it: ordinary people who watched the lives of strangers destroyed and decided that they needed to help." Celebrate with us Japan and its people.

This collection of twisted short stories investigates the thin line between the good in us all, and the lurking evil. Some of the stories seek the motivation, others deliberately take an opposing view, but all will surprise you with their perspective.

What is love? The Ancient Greeks knew. Realising there are so many types of love, they gave a name to each one. In Love Just Is each meaning is explored by short stories. Some are obvious and comforting, some shocking and some disturbingly unpleasant. Eros explores romance and passion. Ludus looks at love as a game. Storge, where family means everything. Mania sees love as art and obsession. Pragma allows you to shop for love. Agape is always selfless. Philia is an act of friendship. The anthology includes 22 stories; 130 pages and 7 illustrations.

In October 1983, something happened in Shadows Close. The dead-end road was subject to a week of horror that left the inhabitants shaking with terror. This book documents that week and what happened to each resident. Unlike other short story collections, the characters appear throughout the book as each household lives through its own terror. Shadows Close has ghosts, killers and heroes; be warned that it is advisable not to read it after sunset. A young boy decides to protect his mother at all cost; a house slips into the floodplain; a couple find themselves reliving a story that is a hundred years old; a ghost, who killed its own mother, is threatened; a man tries to save his family from the evil which is steadily crawling toward his house. Written in the lean style of dirty realism the short stories are awash with fear and horror. Set within the confines of one street the stories have a strong narrative framework that allows the location to become as much a character as any of the people in the stories. The threshold has been crossed and Shadows Close is the boundary where the human character is placed under a darkly tinted glass.

Flash Fiction requires the writer to choose each word with the intention to portray dozens of emotions and images. Whilst twisted doesn't necessarily mean morbid, its edginess can be whimsical, playful or disturbing. Our selection of twisted tales explodes out of the page and drags the reader deep into its reality, continuing to haunt them after the page has been closed.