Böcker utgivna av Truth Serum Press / Bequem Publishing

32 short stories driven by lust or recklessness. Raunchy, ridiculous, raving mad, and occasionally a little bit sad. Includes two threads of linked flash fiction, and LGBT+ literature that could make you laugh or cry."Their teeth skitter like tambourines. A smattering of dust under noses tells a story they're not ready to share."from 'Seven Lesbians and a Bar of Soap'"I wanted to travel. I wanted to explore realities that were different from my own. I wanted to feel the danger and excitement of alternative lifestyles."from 'The Carpet'"Max was feeling fragile. A friend of his had had a near death experience that involved an unhappy combination of Viagra and poppers."from 'The Lemon Lover'"The corrosive acidity of one-too-many-a-drink and the unwanted attention of a predator with the wrong sort of eyes do nothing to slow her."from 'Appetite'

'Hold Off the Night''s twelve stories find people wrestling with the difficulties inherent in composing a life, navigating change, and salvaging relationships. These stories explore the difficulties of life inherent in families and relationships, complicated by class and faith, fear and loyalty, and longings that resonate with the broader human experience. Evelyn runs away from her fracturing life to a forgotten refuge while Jennifer finds herself in danger with a student's father who is not the charming man about whom she's fantasized. A musician strives to resolve his relationship with his father, complicated by his mother's mental illness, on the holiday that broke the family apart. Nine-year-old Jessie's loyalties are tested when "Daddy" returns to the roadside motel she runs with her mother in Texas. A mother in a claustrophobic home awaits news from her son in Afghanistan in a world that's forgotten the war. A homeless man causes a young mother to chafe at the edges of her narrow life and behave in surprising ways while ten-year-old Toni is made to understand class on her troubled family's camping vacation. After being laid off from the Ford plant, Bill sets off across country in search of his ex-wife who ran off with his son and finds truths about himself in the bargain. A widowed father tries desperately to connect with his troubled daughter. Joan struggles to emulate her patron saint while balancing her resentment and compassion toward the troubled foster child who's invaded her too-crowded home. Finally, a Jack Mormon is visited by missionaries who try to pray her back into the fold, forcing her to confront her place in a church and a family she believes complicit in her terrible loss.

An unhappy soldier guards the barracks gate in Brisbane and wishes for freedom ... a recovering addict in Fremantle learns about life, death and friendship while trying to get his life together in NA ... an Adelaide man's recently deceased uncle teaches him about the meaning of life ... and a girl vanishes somewhere near Alice Springs, never to be seen again. These are just some of the characters in Lewis Woolston's new story collection 'Remembering the Dead and Other Stories'. In these snapshots from the fringes of Australian society, the past is never entirely done, the dead are not forgotten, and life takes turns both funny and tragic.