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PARADINS<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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High schoolers Jazz and Derek hope for a weekend alone when his parents go away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have plans, but those plans change suddenly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, everyone’s plans change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a love story, sort of, though not necessarily theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

204 pgs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Print, 2024, edition of 50: SOLD OUT<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aboard a cruise for convalescents, patients and passengers mingle over dinners or lounge side-by-side at the pools, all of them feeling distant from their former lives in a world that has unmistakably changed and continued on without them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a crew of boys, an eccentric doctor, and international patients, the unnamed ship aimlessly moves along the North American Atlantic coast; its unfortunate passengers\u2019 daily activities extend little beyond dining, sunbathing, reading, and swimming, yet Adrian, a private nurse for 9-year-old Mara, finds purpose amidst the routine and narrates the odd and comical world that has sprung to life far \u2013 and perhaps not far enough \u2013 from the mainland. Meanwhile, Martin, the temporarily exiled accidental activist<\/em>, and Corinne, a woman stuck in recovery, become closer in what may very well be their greatest rebellions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sojourn<\/em> draws inspiration from Franz Kafka’s modernism, Karl Marx’s analogies, and the Three Stooges’ absurdities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

197 pgs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

First Print<\/strong>, 2018, edition of 50: SOLD OUT<\/em> \/ Second Print<\/strong>, 2019, edition of 25: SOLD OUT<\/em> \/ Third Print<\/strong>, 2020, edition of 25: SOLD OUT<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joe<\/strong> is a writer, teacher and musician living in Reading, Pennsylvania with his wife, Erica. He’s worked – in libraries, schools, museums, cafeterias, restaurants, wood shops, basements, and cubicles, for artists, carpenters, friends, and entrepreneurs, on cricket farms, kayaks, and docks – since he was 14, somehow always finding time to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His stories have appeared in online and print journals such as Pank<\/em>, Everyday Genius<\/em>, the Legendary<\/em>, the Northville Review<\/em>, Prick of the Spindle<\/em>, York Review<\/em>, Coatesville Cultural Journal<\/em>, and Hyphen<\/em> and received nominations for Best of the Net<\/em>. Now and then, Joe wrote album reviews for the venerable – though now-defunct – The Active Listener<\/a><\/em>. He published a novel, Sojourn<\/em>, in 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Temple University in 2007 and his M.A.T. English Literature from Bard College in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, he’s working on several short stories and a science-fiction novel, Pia’e<\/em>, from which excerpts have appeared in Isolation Street <\/em>and on the podcast As Read by Me<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s in the noise-rock band: Tlooth<\/a>. He occasionally records as Darkhold Redeemers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous bands include Canid<\/a>, Spetters<\/a>, Behind Glass<\/a>, Sometimes Movement<\/a> & Her Illumination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Works<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Poetry<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lusitania<\/em>, Hyphen Literary Magazine <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction \/ Short Stories<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Agreements<\/em>, As Read by Me Podcast<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Descriptor<\/em>, Hyphen Literary Magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hike the Spike at Lolo<\/em>, self-published zine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Interview with Walter Bergman<\/em><\/a>, Open Yr Throat & Speak Radio Show<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old Spark<\/a><\/em><\/em>, Prick of the Spindle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pact<\/em><\/a>, Pank<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Resistance<\/em><\/a>, The Northville Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Slow Release<\/em><\/a>, Everyday Genius<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spotter<\/em>, Isolation Street<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spotter<\/a><\/em>, As Read by Me Podcast<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Time of Night<\/em><\/a>, Everyday Genius<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vanity<\/a><\/em>, Prick of the Spindle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women of the World<\/a><\/em>, The Legendary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hike the Spike in Lolo<\/em>, Electric Mule<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction \/ Novels<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sojourn<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paradins<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Non-Fiction \/ Music Reviews<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Active Listener<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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