The recently released Thuglit: Issue Six keeps the reading momentum of recent issues going with eight more hard hitting stories to mess with your mind. Characters at the edge and desperate for a way out no matter the odds populate these stories in locales familiar and not. As always in the Thuglit series, these are short stories so in the interest of avoiding spoilers, details will be limited.
This issue opens with “PIN”
by Hugh Lessig. The robbery of the customer after he left the ATM went off without
a hitch. Everything went like Tory planed and told him it would. But, nobody
planned for what would happen when they pulled it off.
After being in the Norfolk
vicinity in the previous story it is off to Asia in “Wheels” by Rena Robinett.
Nick trained her long ago how to move drugs by being a smuggler. She is good at
it though she does have a problem as her flight has been grounded short of her destination
by bad weather. That is definitely a problem. So too is the increasing interest
being shown to her by a friendly stranger.
The next three stories take
readers back to the United States before leaving again. The first one is “Come
on Home” by Scott Adlerberg where the marriage is in trouble and both parties
know it. Carla believes he is cheating and expects him to call in precisely at
10 pm from work as a way of proving he isn’t cheating and is actually working.
The fact that he is at least forty-five minutes late with the call is going to
make her very unhappy.
Eating a sub sandwich and
cleaning your gun at the same time can be done. It may not be the smartest
thing ever to do, but that February evening Mike “Muzz” Mukowski was absolutely
starving. He wanted that sandwich and had been thinking about it all day. That
wasn't the only thing he wanted and had taken in recent days. He really should
have thought of the repercussions in “Having Chiqui” by Kieran Shea.
Louie and Vince set up a drug
deal with Pete and now things are getting a bit strange in “Soul Collection” by
T. Fox Dunham. Philly may be a big place, but Louie is sure he knows Pete from somewhere
and just won’t let it go. All Vince knows is what should have been an easy piece
of business is not turning out so easy after all.
“Sweet Caroline” by Jessica
Adams takes readers to Cabo San Lucas and a pregnant woman and the choices she
has to make. It isn't like James is still around to be involved now.
Aaron Fox-Lerner takes
readers to China in “The Ghost Wife.” Mallory wanted to go China and be an
English teacher. Her boyfriend went with her as a big romantic gesture. But, Wu
Dong is the real China in all its smoke belching glory and they were not
remotely prepared for the experience. They don’t fit in and they don’t have any
real way out which leads to a desperate gamble.
The legendary Sanchez
Penitentiary sits outside the city of El Paso, Texas. It is home to some of the
most deranged and vile human beings mankind has ever spawned. “Rogues Gallery”
by B. H. Shepherd tells the tale of some of those inmates currently hidden way
from civilization.
Those eight tales are
followed by author bios as well as other suggested books to read.
Thuglit: Issue Six is a
good one featuring solid stories filled with characters in desperate
situations. There is not an obvious theme to the issue beyond the basic idea of
characters in a variety of settings and circumstances experiencing desperation
of various types. Sometimes the tiniest of things has disrupted their plans.
Other times the worst thing possible has happened thanks to a monumental error
by themselves or others. Consequences are always present as is the suspense and
the danger. At an estimated 134 pages the latest issue delivers another quality
and varied read.
Thuglit: Issue Six
Editor: Todd Robinson
Thuglit Publishing
June 2013
ASIN: B00DQ3PIZK
E-Book (also available in
Paperback)
Estimated 134 Pages
$1.99
Material was purchased for
use in an objective review by way of an Amazon Gift Card payment for my participation
in the Amazon Associate Program.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2013
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