Writing
Better to Beg
With raw musical talent and wild sexual chemistry, early aughts NYC rock duo The Deserters, comprised of ambitious midwestern feminist Viv and the half-cracked British expat Hux, head west in a stolen jalopy to perform in the seedy bars and sketchy clubs of America’s great cities, hoping to “make it” as crowds grow violent, money dries up, and their trust in each other erodes, forcing them to confront the limits of freedom, faith and creative integrity in an ever-changing post-9/11 America.
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"Emergency Contact" • HAD
"Arsonist, 39" • scaffold lit
"Bandits" • HAD
"Haymaker" • HAD
"Akathisia" • scaffold lit
"Excerpt: BETTER TO BEG" • Vlad Mag
"Portrait of You in Five Psychics" • X-R-A-Y
"One Person's Hell" • BRUISER
"Lately" • Maudlin House
"Barry, 37📍(3900FT) dates out of his league" • HAD
"siren song" • Persephone's Fruit
"Review: I HAVE A GUN" • Punk Noir Magazine
"Spock Fives" • HAD
"You find yourself at two lakes in June" • Farewell Transmission
"Ten laps for being stupid" • HAD
"Shadowboxing" • Alan Squire Publishing (ASP) Bulletin
"Mister International Incident" • X-R-A-Y
"Fumbled that one, mate" • Farewell Transmission
"This Version is Slapstick" • JAKE
"All fucked up on shell bras" • Maudlin House
"Sorry I left you blue-balled on a flight to Vegas" • Rejection Letters
"In which I tell strangers my Uncle is Satan" • Autofocus Lit
"Puke truce in an IKEA parking lot" • Bullshit Lit
"With apologies, from Furnace Creek" • Roi Faineant Press
"Songs that sound like sex" • Maudlin House
"Review: Burden of Joy" • JAKE
"And the War Came" • Funicular (print only)
"Eighteen Plus Benefits" • JAKE
"In a bid for redemption you Panterra'd a deck chair." • Rejection Letters
"The Incumbent" • Identity Theory
"You crown Paul Shaffer's head with mustard" • HAD
"Three Strikes" • Rejection Letters
"Insides Like Mine" • trampset