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SAME SONG, DIFFERENT BEAT

by Ronin Heck

 

Somewhere after the 2036 elections, civil war broke out in the United States. In the region now known as South California, the Mutual Organization dictates every aspect of citizens’ lives. One family entertains the masses, each member of the family being played by different actors as time goes on.

A veteran of the civil war named Teo Paz, who has suffered a severe ringing in his left ear since the conflict, one day notices that each version of the song “Sunshine Manifesto” sounds exactly the same, despite claims by the Mutual Organization that each version of the song is different. He makes the mistake of telling a coworker his suspicion and his life and identity are forever changed.

In the tradition of We, Brave New World, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451, author Ronin Heck fashions a scathing critique of modern society in the form of a warning about the future. Heck simultaneously delivers satire and reprimand. If we do not heed this cautionary tale, hope for a human future is all but lost.

 

FATHER WAS A RAT KING

by Manny Torres

Soledad was 16 and preparing for college when her mother left her to care for her drug-addicted father. Having to live in the violent and gritty streets of pre-gentrification New York, she learns to survive by any means necessary, working off a family debt to some unsavory and corrupt men. Will the streets consume her with violence and vice, or will she triumph and escape to a normal life?

In the style of Ms. 45, Leon, and Taxi Driver comes this tense and violent novella from the author of Dead Dogs.

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L.A. STORIES:
Three Grindhouse Novellas

Hollywood Boulevard is littered with junkies, pimps, and prostitutes. Up and down the lane you’ll find small movie theaters showing films no studio executive would ever sign off on, even if those same executives sneak into the grindhouse theaters to see what sort of filth the masses prefer to saccharine schlop like Kramer vs. Kramer and Ordinary People

You’ll get three sordid features for one ticket price:

TEMPLE OF THE RAT
by Alec Cizak

THE ROACH KING OF PARADISE
by Scotch Rutherford

and

LADY TOMAHAWK
by Andrew Miller

This is L.A. Stories. A wild ride across the bridge between the permissive 1970s and the repressive decades that followed.