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Weren't Another Other Way to Be: Outlaw Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Waylon Jennings
As he observed the commercialized and soulless country music scene, Waylon Jennings famously sang, “Where do we take it from here?” He answered that question by leaving Nashville and heading home to Texas, to help create what came to be known as outlaw country.
Today, looking at the crime fiction world, we find ourselves asking the same question. The grittiest, harshest, most disturbing fiction form is being cut off from its roots, sanitized, made “safe.”
In this volume, like Waylon did with the country genre in those bygone days, we’re looking to rock the boat. We asked for stories that aren't contorted to conform to commercial, or political, agendas.
We asked for outlaw fiction.
And we got it.
Today, looking at the crime fiction world, we find ourselves asking the same question. The grittiest, harshest, most disturbing fiction form is being cut off from its roots, sanitized, made “safe.”
In this volume, like Waylon did with the country genre in those bygone days, we’re looking to rock the boat. We asked for stories that aren't contorted to conform to commercial, or political, agendas.
We asked for outlaw fiction.
And we got it.
199 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 21, 2023
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Alec Cizak
76 books47 followersAlec Cizak was dropped off on the planet Earth by Lao Tzu after the old wizard made love to a seven-legged go-go dancer from the interior regions of Neptune. The dancer refused to care for the infant Cizak and so Lao Tzu brought the baby to Earth and left him with a cult of syphilitic monks on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Cizak was granted immortality by the goddess Molena, a stripper from Spain, on the condition that he never reveal her recipe for spaghetti and eyeball soup. Unable to contain this magnificent secret, Cizak whispered the recipe to a Belgium nun named Poinsettia. The goddess Molena cursed Cizak to mortality and a bit of talent as a writer no significant number of his fellow mortals would ever care too much about. He currently lives with his wife in a cave in Antarctica where he writes dime novels under a pen name that cannot be revealed here for national security purposes.
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August 31, 2023
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A compilation of short stories inspired by the songs of Waylon Jennings. Rebels and outlaws - of both sexes - presented at their best and worst. Found this to be enthralling reading. Read most of it while listening to Pandora's Jennings channel. Some tales make you stop and think, all are microcosms of life in this world as we think we know it on our worst days.
There are several anthologies based on the music of some of our more inspired musicians. I want to read them all. A couple of them - this one included - are available on Kindle Unlimited.
Reviewed on August 31, 2023, at Goodreads, AmazonSmile, Barnes&Noble, and Kobo. Not available at BookBub.
A compilation of short stories inspired by the songs of Waylon Jennings. Rebels and outlaws - of both sexes - presented at their best and worst. Found this to be enthralling reading. Read most of it while listening to Pandora's Jennings channel. Some tales make you stop and think, all are microcosms of life in this world as we think we know it on our worst days.
There are several anthologies based on the music of some of our more inspired musicians. I want to read them all. A couple of them - this one included - are available on Kindle Unlimited.
Reviewed on August 31, 2023, at Goodreads, AmazonSmile, Barnes&Noble, and Kobo. Not available at BookBub.
Displaying 1 of 1 review