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Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house.
And in the title story, selected for The Best American Short Stories, two film school buddies working on a doomed project are left sizing up their own talent, hoping...
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An entire day of the week has disappeared.
That's normal, right?
In What About Tuesday? Adam Wilson reminds us that should you ever wake up to find a day of the week missing due to a freak abnormality in the nature of space-time, it's probably a good idea not to mention it to anyone.
Seriously. Just leave it alone. Definitely don't hire a private investigator.
Oh, and definitely don't ask questions. Forget anything happened.
Because, technically,...
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An excerpt from Adam Wilson's debut short story collection, What's Important Is Feeling, which humorously pinpoints our most desperate moments of longing-sexual and otherwise. "Soft Thunder" is a short story about the members of a high school garage band who fall for the same girl and then keep falling. The twelve stories in What's Important is Feeling follow the through-line of contemporary American coming-of-age: from the ravings of teenage lust,...
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"OMFG, I nearly up and died from laughter when I read Flatscreen. This is the novel that every young turk will be reading on their way to a job they hate and are in fact too smart for." -Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
Indie-lit star and Faster Times editor Adam Wilson delivers the gleefully absurd, effortlessly heartwarming story of one young man's struggle to shake off the listless, sexless, stoned mantle of suburban teenage...
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A razor-sharp, darkly funny, and deeply human rendering of a future that's nearly upon us.
Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of a personal tragedy. Michael, a Wall Street trader, is meanwhile keeping a secret: he's lost the couple's life savings. And Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data-mining project of epic scale, whose mysterious creator has ambitions to reshape...
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The final season in the trilogy starts three years on from the last season, and five years on from the start. There is a bold, new crime story, which forces residents to ask themselves whether the town has a crack running through it caused by Danny Latimer2s death, is this new crime somehow the long-term legacy of that dark moment? The central characters must contend with this possibility as they battle to make hope, friendship, and love triumph over...
8) Tatouine
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It's a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that's the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey.
Along the way, he writes poems, buys groceries at the dollar store, and earns minimum wage at a dead-end supermarket job. In between treatments for his cystic fibrosis and the constant drip-drip-drip of disappointment,...
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24hr Rental volume 1
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Tracker (Romano Orzari), a fallen Mafia boss, now operates a seedy video store as a front for a host of petty crimes-from fencing jewelry to peddling dope and illegal porn-all in hopes of returning to power. In the series pilot, Tracker receives a "friendly" visit from his old "colleague"" Khivisto (Vlasta Vrana), head of the Balkan crime family, reminding him of his debts. Back at the store, he makes a deal with a regular supplier and accidentally...
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24hr Rental volume 5
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With Junior (Chrs Ratz) in possession of the Mistress' ring as collateral for Tracker's gambling debts, Tracker (Romano Orzari) sends Ace (Adam Kenneth Wilson) on a hunt for a replacement finger. Meanwhile, the video store gets a visit from Paul-and the police, hot on the trail of an illegal 24 Hour Rental. But Paul's plan to shut down the store quickly hits a snag.
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24hr Rental volume 3
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Tracker (Romano Orzari), Buzz (Michael Biehn), Ace (Adam Kenneth Wilson) and Floyd (Aaron Berg) go to Hollywood Hits to teach Paul (Mike Smith) a lesson. At the video store, Mafia goons looking for Tracker hold Sarah (Kate Ross) and Sam (Marc Senior) hostage.
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24hr Rental volume 10
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As Ace (Adam Kenneth Wilson) and JR (Gavin Crawford) prepare for the porno premiere, Tracker (Romano Orzari) becomes concerned with Ace's (Adam Kenneth Wilson) dwindling drug business. Back at the store, Paul's (Mike Smith) back with a new vice cop, one unwilling to ignore the fact that the store's illegal porn collection looks like a Ukrainian hard drive.
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24hr Rental volume 7
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After a gory delivery to the Mistress (Amanda Lisman) and the Don (Salvatore Antonio), Tracker is back in the family-and expected to make significant financial contributions. Ace (Adam Kenneth Wilson) presents a slightly unorthodox business plan to Tracker. And Khivisto (Vlasta Vrana) receives bad news.
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24hr Rental volume 9
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Tracker's operation is finally making money but he's haunted by dreams of a vengeful gypsy. Sarah (Kate Ross) moves in with Sam (Marc Senior), but has her doubts about their future. Jaime's (Leslie Seiler) escorts are turning profits and stomachs, while Ace (Adam Kenneth Wilson) and JR (Gavin Crawford) make an avant-garde porno.
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24hr Rental volume 12
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With Tracker missing, Floyd (Aaron Berg) and Buzz (Michael Biehn) search for their lost friend. Tracker's life or death situation requires intervention from the Don (Salvatore Antonio), and likely at least three emergency proctologists.
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24hr Rental volume 11
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Power moves by the Don and Mistress leads to a brewing gang war, while Buzz (Michael Biehn) goes on the hunt for the missing gypsy. At Khvisto's (Vlasta Vrana) underground fight club, halfway between an MMA match and a joy division, Tracker receives a fateful ultimatum. He is kidnapped as he delivers Khvisto message.
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24hr Rental volume 8
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As Tracker (Romano Orzari) recovers from an operation, Ace's (Adam Kenneth Wilson) cathouse descends into carnage, forcing Jaime (Leslie Seiler) to take over. And Sarah's relationship with her junkie boyfriend Myles (Tyler Kyte) comes to a messy end.
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24hr Rental volume 6
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Junior (Chris Ratz) promises to return the ring, but only if Tracker (Romano Orzari) passes a test of loyalty that ends up involving a pimp, a gypsy and a magic bullet. At the video store, Sarah (Kate Ross) is caught with her fingers in the till and Ace (Adam Kenneth Wilson) attempts a new way of cooking meth. And the Don decides retrieving the missing finger won't fill his quota of dismembered body parts.
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24hr Rental volume 13
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Tracker seeks revenge. There will be blood.
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24hr Rental volume 2
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Tracker negotiates his debts over an open grave with Junior (Chris Ratz), Khvisto's son, while Jaime (Leslie Seiler) discovers Floyd's (Aaron Berg) cab has turned into a serial killer's basement. Meanwhile, rival video storeowner Paul (Mike Smith) rents a 24 Hour Rental from new employee Sarah (Kate Ross) and gets a receipt that looks like a sex offender's rap sheet.