Welcome, or welcome back, to 113 Crickets. This is our second volume of work and we continue our quest to offer new, cutting edge work to delight and inspire the reader. This volume contains work by seven writers, new and established, working in a variety of literary styles...
As the editor of this collection, clearly I am biased, but I honestly think this collection (and the first volume) contains some of the best new prose and poetry available at the moment. My personal favorite in this collection is the set of vignettes by Mark Eagleton, "Broken". here is a truly original voice writing about the human condition, in a sometimes shocking, but always compassionate way.
This volume also contains a poem cycle by the actor James Franco, based on a collection of songs by The Smiths, and not available in any other published form.
You may also like to read 113 Crickets #1, the first book in this two-volume series. It has been reviewed mostly for David Swinson's contribution (an extract from A Detailed Man) but contains many other literary gems.