The Fancy Arm Hole Series is a fancy literary series of prose and poetry, published by Likely Red Press. It's fancy. This first book features work by Amy Alexander, Becca Carson, A. Cooperstone, Chris Espenshade, James Ezra, L.N. Holmes, timothy martin, Damon McKinney, Steve Carey-Walton, Lisa L. Weber, and Michael Welch
I enjoyed the quirky, mysterious, and strange stories and poems that make up this first issue of The Fancy Arm Hole Series. I'm definitely biased, as one of my stories is featured in this anthology, but I hope that you will check out the work in this book anyway. The sales benefit the writers, some of which are just beginning their careers. A print version is also forthcoming.
Here are some tantalizing excerpts from the anthology:
"Tourists blew kisses, threw up peace signs, and said 'Cheese' while posing against the gate to Chinatown. I memorized their faces and outfits the way a marine biologist tags a pod of migrating dolphins, prepped to study their behavior later on once they were ripped off and nauseated from Americanized dim sum." —from "Downtown" by Steve Carey-Walton
"I know what the speed limit signs say. They say slow down because nothing should move quickly in this place. They say slow down because no matter how fast you drive, there is no escaping." —from "The Road" by Lisa L. Weber
"Zoe watches her lab partner eat a minnow during her eight am anatomy class." —from "8 AM" by James Ezra
"we pocket the rain/make a womb of this vessel" —from "vessel" by timothy martin
"the skull's almost-lost grooves/rivers/on a topographic map,/and me, a girl imagining trappers there,/bloody pelts,/rituals" —from "Distance" by Amy Alexander