The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (February 2021)

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (February 2021)
Author: Jill Benson
Publisher: Bards and Sages Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Society of Misfit Stories is a home for those wonderful stories that are too long for most magazines but too short for stand-alone print books. Whether you call them short stories, novelettes, or novellas, these stories are all of a length that often struggles to find publication traditionally. Each issue offers a substantial volume of amazing speculative fiction for readers who enjoy spending time with a good tale.

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... June 2021

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... June 2021
Author: Julie Ann Dawson
Publisher: Bards and Sages Publishing
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Society of Misfit Stories is a home for those wonderful stories that are too long for most magazines but too short for stand-alone print books. Whether you call them short stories, novelettes, or novellas, these stories are all of a length that often struggles to find publication traditionally. Each issue offers a substantial volume of amazing speculative fiction for readers who enjoy spending time with a good tale. A sample of what you'll find in this issue: A community living on the back of a giant tortoise-like creature faces a threat when the creature stops following their commands in Raise Me Up an Eastern Mountain. A guitarist believes an imposter has assumed his identity, but as he tries to unravel the truth, he discovers the imposter is ever more dangerous that he realized in Broken Strings. A bookshop owner’s obsession with a female customer who has a disturbing interest in books about pain is forced to confront his own buried demons in Black Leather Gloves.

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (September 2021)

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (September 2021)
Author: Julie Ann Dawson
Publisher: Bards and Sages Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Each issue of The Society of Misfit Stories Presents… is a celebration of long-form fiction. These novelettes and novellas will entertain and surprise fans of the form. In this issue: stories by Michael Gardner, Ziaul Moid Khan, Mark Lord, Danielle Ranucci, William Suboski, and Rebecca B. Weiss. A sample of the stories in this issue: Jack Hiller believes he is destined to join a secret society that runs the world. But an encounter with an equally ambitious alligator stands in his way in Working Day. After the suicide of his best friend, Balta must come to terms with his grief while working with his friend’s sister to slay a demon in The Demon-Slayers. A detective finds himself caught up in a bizarre web of secrets, intrigue, and murdered felines in The Mystery Killer of Cats.

Misfits

Misfits
Author: Michaela Coel
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1250843456

From the brilliant mind of Michaela Coel, creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum and a Royal Society of Literature fellow, comes a passionate and inspired declaration against fitting in. When invited to deliver the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Michaela Coel touched a lot of people with her striking revelations about race, class and gender, but the person most significantly impacted was Coel herself. Building on her celebrated speech, Misfits immerses readers in her vision through powerful allegory and deeply personal anecdotes—from her coming of age in London public housing to her discovery of theater and her love for storytelling. And she tells of her reckoning with trauma and metamorphosis into a champion for herself, inclusivity, and radical honesty. With inspiring insight and wit, Coel lays bare her journey so far and invites us to reflect on our own. By embracing our differences, she says, we can transform our lives. An artist to her core, Coel holds up the path of the creative as an emblem of our need to regard one another with care and respect—and transparency. Misfits is a triumphant call for honesty, empathy and inclusion. Championing “misfits” everywhere, this timely, necessary book is a rousing coming-to-power manifesto dedicated to anyone who has ever worried about fitting in.

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (September 2021)

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (September 2021)
Author: Ziaul Moid Khan
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2021-08-29
Genre:
ISBN:

Each issue of The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... is a celebration of long-form fiction. These novelettes and novellas will entertain and surprise fans of the form. In this issue: stories by Michael Gardner, Ziaul Moid Khan, Mark Lord, Danielle Ranucci, William Suboski, and Rebecca B. Weiss. A sample of the stories in this issue: Jack Hiller believes he is destined to join a secret society that runs the world. But an encounter with an equally ambitious alligator stands in his way in Working Day. After the suicide of his best friend, Balta must come to terms with his grief while working with his friend's sister to slay a demon in The Demon-Slayers. A detective finds himself caught up in a bizarre web of secrets, intrigue, and murdered felines in The Mystery Killer of Cats.

This Music Leaves Stains

This Music Leaves Stains
Author: James Greene
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810884380

Few bands in the past three decades have proven as affecting or exciting as the Misfits, the ferocious horror punk outfit that lurked in the shadows of suburban New Jersey and released a handful of pivotal underground recordings during their brief, tumultuous time together. Led by Glenn Danzig, a singer possessed of vision and blessed with an incredible baritone, the Misfits pioneered a death rock sound that would reverberate through the various musical subgenres that sprung up in their wake. This Music Leaves Stains now presents the full story behind the Misfits and their ubiquitous, haunting skull logo, a story of unique talent, strange timing, clashing personalities, and incredible music that helped shape rock as we know it today. James Greene, Jr., maps this narrative from the band's birth at the tail end of the original punk movement through their messy dissolve at the dawn of the 1980s right on through the legal warring and inexplicable reunions that helped carry the band into the 21st century. Music junkies of any stripe will surely find themselves engrossed in this saga that finally pieces together the full story of the greatest horror punk band that ever existed, though Misfits fans will truly marvel at the thorough and detailed approach James Greene, Jr. has taken in outlining the rise, fall, resurrection, and influence of New Jersey's most frightening musical assembly.

Inside the NRA

Inside the NRA
Author: Joshua L. Powell
Publisher: Twelve
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538720590

A shocking exposé of rampant, decades-long incompetence at the National Rifle Association, as told by a former member of its senior leadership. Joshua L. Powell is the NRA--a lifelong gun advocate, in 2016, he began his new role as a senior strategist and chief of staff to NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre. What Powell uncovered was horrifying: "the waste and dysfunction at the NRA was staggering." INSIDE THE NRA reveals for the first time the rise and fall of the most powerful political organization in America--how the NRA became feared as the Death Star of Washington lobbies and so militant and extreme as "to create and fuel the toxicity of the gun debate until it became outright explosive." INSIDE THE NRA explains this intentional toxic messaging was wholly the product of LaPierre's leadership and the extremist branding by his longtime PR puppet master Angus McQueen. In damning detail, Powell exposes the NRA's plan to "pour gasoline" on the fire in the fight against gun control, to sow discord to fill its coffers, and to secure the presidency for Donald J. Trump.

Delinquent

Delinquent
Author: Bea Paige
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781915493170

I'm the kid your parents warned you about... Eighteen months in prison or doing time at Oceanside Academy. Reform school has met its match in me, even if it is full of young offenders. Thieves, graffiti writers, drug runners and other petty criminals reside within the walls, and I'm just like them. But what they didn't tell me was that I'd be one of only a handful of girls in a hoard full of boys. It'll take more than just street smarts to keep my wits about me. Everyone here has a chip on their shoulders, and I'm no different. Mine's one of the biggest. That's why they call me Asia because I have one as large as a continent. Rules or not, these bad boys are about to discover I've earned my label for reason... I'm the biggest misfit of them all.

The Storyteller

The Storyteller
Author: Dave Grohl
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 006307611X

The #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021 So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters…the list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.