All posts by Jason Michel

The Dictator and Grand Poobah over at the irreverent PULP METAL MAGAZINE, Jason Michel has been turned on, tripped up and stumbled over all around the world on a self imposed exile. He is a hack purveyor of penny dreadfuls and flash nightmares of daytime who now lives in France. For his sins.

Goodbye, David by B.R. Stateham

Through the driving rain he saw the three of them standing at the corner. The mother, holding a baby heavily wrapped Continue reading Goodbye, David by B.R. Stateham

SURF OVER RYE by Kevin Luna

I was skating back from Burger King along this rough kinda sidewalk when, coming over a little hill in the road, he flags Continue reading SURF OVER RYE by Kevin Luna

The Age of Innocence by Jim J. Wilsky

Spring, 1967

She pounds harder on the window. He ignores her, pretending not to hear. Whistling, he put his head back on the seat, Continue reading The Age of Innocence by Jim J. Wilsky

The Crazy Brain: An Interview with Alex Young

By Jason Michel

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BLACK BETWEEN THE FRAMES #3

Some might have their whole lives flash before their eyes.

Others turn their thoughts to loved ones and friends.

Tommy yells as the change he just bummed for a coffee drains from his pockets.


Continue reading BLACK BETWEEN THE FRAMES #3

Truth Lies Bleeding – Tony Black Interview By Paul D Brazill

Scottish crime writer Tony Black has written four cracking novels featuring the wonderfully stroppy journalist -turned -Private Eye Gus Dury. In his latest novel, TRUTH LIES BLEEDING, however, Black has taken a rest from Dury. The protagonist is Detective Inspector Rob Brennan.

Continue reading Truth Lies Bleeding – Tony Black Interview By Paul D Brazill

I Didn’t Say That, Did I? : The Big Bamboozler Recommends

By Paul D Brazill

Truth Lies Bleeding by Tony Black.

The protagonist of Tony Black’s previous four novels is Gus Dury-a boozy  journalist turned private eye. Dury is an antisocial, cantankerous, stroppy, trouble maker who lives on the cusp of catastrophe.

Continue reading I Didn’t Say That, Did I? : The Big Bamboozler Recommends

The Black Swan versus Catwoman By Gary Widdowfield

“What must be done, practically? Which action is good? Which action is bad? To ask such a question is also to fall into a naive abstraction  . . . Ethics does not furnish recipes any more than do science and art.”

Simone de Beauvoir

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Writers’ Commerce and the Steering Clear of Unified Communication Devices By Dr. KJ Hannah Greenberg

In a span of five minutes, I had to check my email addresses, cell phone, land line, and fax for the most recent message Continue reading Writers’ Commerce and the Steering Clear of Unified Communication Devices By Dr. KJ Hannah Greenberg

Swarm Intelligence By Lynn Alexander

She had a thing with queens. Not necessarily current queens with specific

personalities, but the idea of queens, organic queens, females surrounded by

workers, coalesced in orbit servitude. Continue reading Swarm Intelligence By Lynn Alexander