Against all odds - Oddity 24 is out!

 Back with a Bing-Bong, after 2 rounds of COVID, nightmares and odd, odd times!

 Dig in to the one, the only, your nook of oddness hitting the mid-20's!

 ODDITY 24 !!

 You can also follow the link:  

https://theoddmagazine.wixsite.com/oddity-24

 

The Odd Magazine is honoured to present:

 Odd Poetry: Joan McNerney, Ken Pobo, and Tohm Bakelas

Odd Art: Cecilia Martinez, and Cynthia Yatchman

Odd Interview: Armando Fragale in conversation with Gary Cummiskey

Odd Shorts: Cheryl Snell, Doug Jacquier, Doug Mathewson, Fran Turner, and Michael F Cocchiarale

Cover Photography: Soham Gupta

 

Lightly come or lightly go

 

Chatsworth book-signing in Stockholm

If you have nothing to do today, and just happen to be in Stockholm, pop round to Lil'Lit Förlag's table at the Bokbordet Stockholm! Pravasan Pillay will be there from 14:00 to sign copies of the Swedish translation of his short short collection Chatsworth. Lil'Lit is an indie publisher and like all indie publishers they need support!

And if you can't make it to Stockholm today, or you can't read Swedish, well copies of the original English version of Chatsworth are still available for sale from madeindurban.co.za.

All those bits

 

At the top of the stairs

 

Gary Cummiskey's Off-ramp still ongoing ...

A finalist for the 2014 Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award, Off-ramp is the debut short fiction collection of Gary Cummiskey and consists of ten stories often characterised by a surreal eroticism. Set mainly in contemporary South Africa, the book opens with a young man’s hallucinatory encounter with a derelict in a Johannesburg street; there is a couple’s visit to a sinister Free State farm; an editor who reluctantly agrees to meet an aspiring woman writer at midnight; two young men who go out on a drinking spree as the country teeters on the edge of civil war; a restless teenager who stalks an unknown woman; and a middle-aged academic who engages in an obsessive, sadistic relationship with a prostitute.

The stories in this startling collection offer a vision of individuals who are slowly being devoured by paranoia and absurdity. Beyond the off-ramp lies a pervasive, heavy dread and an unnameable, perhaps unknowable fear. Cummiskey creates an off-kilter reality that is both disturbing and compelling.

Off-ramp is available at R200 per copy, by courier, for South Africa.

Overseas mail seems to have gone pear-shaped again, so regret no overseas orders at the moment unless you are prepared to pay for courier delivery.

Email me at dyehardpress@gmail.com for order details.

Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth gets mention in review

Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth gets a nice wee mention in Arja Salafranca's Media24 review of Terry-Ann Adams's debut short story collection White Chalk.

(Note: There is a paywall for the review.)

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