Andrew Lafleche Knihy

Poetry without pretension. Contributors include: Tori Bryl, Christina Ciufo, Tori Darnell, Michael Denicola, Cole Depuy, Chen Du, Tova Feldmanstern, Josh Fuentes, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Robin Gow, Julia Hatch, Eliot Hudson, Megan Hutchinson, Keith Inman, Anika Jhalani, Sal Kang, Candice Kelsey, Andy Kerstetter, Ali Kilinc, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Kayleigh Marinelli, Meh, Jessica Mehta, J. L. Moultrie, Dave Nielsen, J. Ray Paradiso, Tim Patton, Andrew Petrucci, J. Sean Rafferty, Hayden Rigby, Joel Scarfe, Brittany Smart, Rachel Smith, Susan Smith, Travis Stephens, Gerry Stewart, Timothy Strange, Meghan K. Strapec, Biljana Vasilevska, Sydney Virginia, Laura Walker, Tom Wood, Kylie Ayn Yockey, and Nicole Zelniker.

A Pardonable Offence is filled with Andrew Lafleche's remarkably unsettling interpretations of reality. This singular new short story collection is brimming with intensity accented by an unexpected dark humor. The true moralist, one who makes himself ugly to expose the ugliness seen all around, Lafleche isn't afraid to challenge the boundaries of fiction with inimitable abandon. Among the stories are, 'A Pardonable Offence', a disturbing short which illustrates the blurred landscape separating circumstance and choice; 'Parallels', a four tale collective, presents a devastating portrait of the suffocating oppression consuming modern life; 'Clayton's Cabin', concerns a man's alienation amidst a bizarre and dehumanized world. The final tale, 'Therapy', a blackly humorous portrayal of a patient's stream of consciousness, reveals an agonized consideration of violence directed toward faceless victims and sexual relations which border on criminal. It is a dark revelation of an over conscious individual whose psyche flirts with a level of paranoia skirting schizophrenic tendency. Appalling, thought-provoking, and entertaining, A Pardonable Offence is Andrew Lafleche claiming his voice: extreme and provocative. This collection will delight his growing number of fans and new readers alike.

These poems reveal an impressive tenderness and have a very great variety. The ceaseless radiation of sublime ideas is perceptible in these poems.

The most remarkable characteristic of these poems is that the poet has aptly avoided banal epithets and false elegance.

Meritocratic poetry with contributions from: Marlee Abbott, Joanna Acevedo, Eleanor Aljumaah, Evan Anders, Madison Baranoski, M.T. Bennett, Christine A. Brooks, Delaney Burk, Raymond Byrnes, Douglas Cole, Josh Coursey, M. Christine Benner Dixon, Naomi Rhema Edwards, Darrell Epp, Maggie Finch, Zac Furlough, Andrew Furst, Sarah Galic, Adem Garic, Lily Greenberg, John Grey, Christopher Grosso, Joseph Hardy, Westley Heine, Melisha Holcomb, Nicole Im, Margaret Koger, Jonathan Koven, Martin Krafft, Patrick Kurth, Carolyn Lawrence, Jasmine Ledesma, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Don Martin, Julie Martin, Brianna Minuse, Alec Montalvo, James B. Nicola, Sam Orluk, G.M. Palmer, Tomy Pierre, Frederick Pollack, Robert Eugene Rubino, Joel Scarfe, Preeti Shah, Jonathan Howard Sonnenberg, Bee Rock Steady, Josh Stein, Dr. Priya Dolma Tamang, Virginia Valenzuela, and Matt Vekakis.

Poetry without pretension. Contributions by: Taylor Altman, Gabriela Alvarado, Alexis Avlamis, Matthew James Babcock, Chad Baker, Cailey Blair, Carl Boon, Cathie Desjardins, Steve Gerson, Mark Gordon, Joshua Ah Harris, Keith Inman, Erin Jamieson, Tabatha Jenkins, Rollin Jewett, Rick Jordan, Mateo Lara, Lora Larivere, Javed Latoo, Bryanna Licciardi, Sara Marron, Gary Mccarty, Grace Mcgovern, Effie Pasagiannis, Lisa Poff, Bella Pori, Rhea Ranno, Edythe Rodriguez, Andrew Rogers, Ogunkoya Samuel, Maria Sebastian, Joanell Serra, Carol Smallwood, John Jay Speredakos, Alex Stanley, Travis Stephens, Charika Swanepoel, Jim Trainer, Alia Wall and Jianqing Zheng.

Poems by Steven Dale Davison, Liz DeGregorio, Francesca Ferrauto, Eddie Fogler, Mark Gordon, Raymond P. Hammond, Tom Higgins, Philip Kienholz, Katharina Kracht, Chelsea Logan, Raymond Luczak, Brandon McCart, Gerald Arthur Moore, Stephen James Moore, Matt Nagin, Patrick T. Reardon, Darren Tynan, and Joe Volpe.

he intense creative power shown by the poet makes its presence felt in all these poems.

Meritocratic poetry with contributions from: Ed Ahern, Christine Aletti, Taylor Altman, Lacey Beamer, Guilherme Bergamini, Michael Brosnan, Hannah Cajandig-Taylor, Laura Cok, Andres Cordoba, Tammy Delatorre, Michael DeMaranville, RC deWinter, Cheryl Dumesnil, David Freeman, Raymond P. Hammond, Heikki Huotari, Alison Lubar, Thomas Biancardo Mackin, DS Maolalai, Marc Meierkort, Mihica Anushree Prashant, Christopher Carter Sanderson, Chuck Sebian-Lander, Hannah Seo, C. Henry Smith, Erin Smith, Sydney Smith, Nick Snow, Skaidrite Stelzer, Carol Stewart, Ming Sun, Mary Turck, And Peter Coe Verbica.

Julian Cole woke to the dull tone of the seat belt light illuminating. It was only an hour flight from Reykjavik, but somehow he'd drifted. He looked at his friend in the seat beside him. His wavy blond hair hung neat over his shoulders as he slept peacefully against the cabin's window. In this restful state, Julian found it hard to believe he was the same Ed Barbie, twice the Trident Legion veteran, who'd deployed to the Faroe Islands and successfully intervened with the grindadrap to capture gut-wrenching video that exposed the slaughter to the world. Ed had balls.