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  The Meat Kings! (Inc) of...

  Hannah Doran

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  'You think the world owes you something and it doesn't. You don't inherit your chance, you earn it. And I'm earning it. I take my shots, and it's not our fault you keep missing yours.'
  T is the new summer hire at Cafarelli & Sons, an iconic New York butcher, but life in a messy cutting room isn't glamorous. She quickly discovers that no-nonsense boss Paula is fighting to hold her struggling business together. When the season ends, someone's for the chop.
  With the American Dream of a better life hanging in the balance, JD and Billy find themselves pitted against each other, each determined to secure their future. Around them, David and T are drawn into shifting alliances and fractured loyalties. But how far will they go to survive?
  The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights carves into the dark underbelly of America's anti-immigration policies and the brutal sacrifices that drive the pursuit of prosperity.
  Winner of the 2024 Papatango New Writing Prize from a record-breaking 1,589 submissions, Hannah Doran's searing play was first performed at Park Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Papatango's Artistic Director George Turvey. Previous Prize discoveries have won Olivier, Critics' Circle and OffWestEnd Awards and received productions in thirty-three countries. The play also went on to win the 2026 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

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  Cathay Combat - Book Two of the...

  Christina Fanelli

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  In the sequel to Czaritan: Book One of the Crimson Tribune Saga, Tracy, Rush, Benji, Rita, and Darla are back and living a post-Jancrest life at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID progresses, changes big and small affect each of their lives. Tracy makes shocking discoveries about China, while Benji faces new hurdles in his job as a facility engineer at a local hospital. Rita and Darla struggle with the shifts in their volunteering and elementary school schedules, as Rush attempts to maintain structure in the day-to-day schedule at the offices of the Crimson Tribune. COVID-19 definitely leaves its mark on the Ripleys and former Jancrestians in Cathay Combat: Book Two of the Crimson Tribune Saga.

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  Short Story Press Presents Love...

  Short Story Press, Walter Price

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  One of the most miserable and lonely places in the world is in a prison cell. The reason not being because you are locked away in a space the size of closet, away from society but because you have so much time to think. In the outside world you have resources to help make decisions and can move around to see for yourself when making choices. Being locked away physically also has the upmost mental effect on even a stable mind. 
  One of the hardest decisions is figuring out exactly what path you will take once released from prison. This is vital because essentially the release the release date is the first day of the rest of your new life. The main character must make this decision but has to use his heart to guide him. 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  A Minor Poet - From their pens...

  Amy Levy

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  Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. 
  Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms. 
  Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories ‘Cohen of Trinity’ and ‘Wise in Their Generation,’ were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine ‘Women's World’. 
  Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; ‘Xantippe and Other Verses’, from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. ‘A Minor Poet and Other Verse’ from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems. 
  In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including ‘The Ghetto at Florence’, ‘The Jew in Fiction’, ‘Jewish Humour’ and ‘Jewish Children’. 
  That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem ‘To Vernon Lee’.  
  Her first novel ‘Romance of a Shop’, written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial.  
  Her final book of poems, ‘A London Plane-Tree’ from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism. 
  Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27.

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  A Season in Hell with Rimbaud

  Dustin Kyle Pearson

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  In pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship. 
  The poems in Dustin Pearson’s A Season in Hell with Rimbaud form an allegorical travelogue that chronicles two brothers’ mutual descent into hell. When the older brother runs off by himself, the younger brother begins roaming Hell’s different landscapes in search of him. As he searches, the younger brother ruminates on their now fractured relationship: what brought them here? Can they find each other? Will their bonds ever be repaired? 
  In the tradition of Virgil, Dante, Milton, Swift, Shelley, Joyce, Sarte, and especially Arthur Rimbaud, Pearson leads his speakers on a speculative, epistolary journey through the nether realm inspired by Christian beliefs and tradition. Drawing on the works of French Symbolists and the literary traditions of the American South, A Season in Hell with Rimbaud guides readers through an intimate rendering of one brother’s journey to find his lost and estranged brother, perhaps recovering a part of himself in the process.

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  Six Characters

  Luigi Pirandello

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  Six Characters by Luigi Pirandello is a groundbreaking theatrical masterpiece that revolutionized modern drama and challenged the very nature of reality, identity, and storytelling. Bold, innovative, and intellectually provocative, this seminal work dismantles the boundaries between fiction and life, drawing audiences into a world where characters demand to be heard and truth becomes a shifting, elusive force.
  
  The play opens in the midst of a theatrical rehearsal when six mysterious figures suddenly appear on stage. They are not actors but "characters"—abandoned creations of an author who never completed their story. Desperate for their drama to be realized, they interrupt the rehearsal and insist that the director and actors bring their tragic tale to life. What unfolds is a layered and self-reflective exploration of illusion and authenticity, as the characters argue that their emotional reality is more genuine than the artificial performances of the actors attempting to portray them.
  
  At the heart of the work lies a haunting family drama marked by betrayal, misunderstanding, guilt, and suffering. Each of the six figures carries a distinct perspective on shared events, exposing the instability of truth and the subjectivity of memory. As their story is reenacted and contested on stage, tensions escalate between the characters and the theatrical company, blurring the line between performance and lived experience.
  
  Pirandello's genius lies in his daring experimentation with form. By breaking the "fourth wall" and embedding a play within a play, he invites audiences to question the nature of authorship, the fluidity of identity, and the relationship between art and reality. The result is a meta-theatrical work that feels startlingly modern, anticipating later developments in existential and absurdist drama.
  
  Beyond its formal innovation, Six Characters offers profound philosophical insight. It suggests that individuals are trapped within the roles they inhabit, unable to escape the perceptions of others. Reality itself becomes fragmented—constructed through interpretation rather than fixed fact. In this way, Pirandello examines the human condition with both irony and compassion, revealing the fragile boundaries between truth and illusion.
  
  A cornerstone of 20th-century theatre, Six Characters transformed dramatic art and cemented Pirandello's legacy as one of the most influential playwrights of modern literature. Challenging, thought-provoking, and emotionally charged, this unforgettable work continues to captivate readers and audiences alike with its daring vision and timeless exploration of identity and existence.

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