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It's summer, 2016. Chelsea Farmer has awoken from one nightmare into another. Once a call girl with no control over her life, she's lost even more control, becoming another statistic in the opioid epidemic eating America from the inside out. Shacking up with a woman she may or may not be in love with, and three men unaware of just how useless they've become, she participates in home invasions to steal material goods that can be traded for pills or, even better, heroin. In between hits, the gang finds other ways to scrape together money, such as getting paid to march in a protest-turned-riot against presidential candidate Donald Trump. As the habit increases, calls for more crimes to feed it, the boys get increasingly violent with the victims of their home invasions. How long will it be before they actually kill a homeowner who refuses to cooperate? Chelsea must decide whether or not she's willing to hang around and find out. Praise for BREAKING GLASS: "Alec Cizak hits streets we don't want to live on and he hits them hard. For a writer as good as Cizak, that isn't enough. Breaking Glass is the story of an addict who stumbles into a chance at recovery only to have her past come back on her. Can she redeem herself while maintaining her newfound peaceful self? This book raises brutal questions and gives the answers it must." -Rob Pierce "Alec Cizak continues to tap into the bleakness of modern life that he did with Down on the Street. Breaking Glass is so dark and troubling it will make you cry for mercy as he joins Poe and Lovecraft in finding new ways to disturb you." -David Nemeth "In addition to containing the single best death scene-ever, in the history of writing-Alec Cizak's Breaking Glass paints a condemnation and a begrudging acceptance of our post-PC culture, told through the eyes of Chelsea Farmer, a millennial dope fiend. Part Tom Sawyer and part Alex from A Clockwork Orange, Chelsea takes us on a tour of an America where hardcore violence and sickening sexual predation are givens; yet subliminal microaggressions end careers and the definition of rape is as elusive and fluid as a spoon-cooked tab of oxycontin. I was hooked." -Grant Jerkins "Alec Cizak's writing is clean, full of dark humor and pulpy edge; all of which highlights his fast dialogue and faster plot. His expert use of language allows him to build believable, interesting characters and create realistic, though bleak, situations. Manifesto Destination and Down on the Street solidify his position next to the greatest writers of hard-boiled fiction. Every story he creates is thrilling and compelling." -Marietta Miles

Grip McCormack has never stepped on an ant.But, at seventeen, he shoots his abusive father, Amos, off the roof of their Kentucky home. Go figure.The murder trial dominates the news for months and brings a torrent of notoriety to the agoraphobic young man, along with a string of female admirers. One of them is Millie-unhinged, tenacious, and eighteen years his senior.Grip has a parole hearing coming up in three days.Lucky for him. If only life on the outside weren't waiting to get him-Uncle Edgar (Dad's brother) wants to kill him, and Millie wants to marry him, and she's already picked out their house-across the street from Uncle Edgar.Grip's anorexic sister, Beanie, still refuses to forgive him and flees to Illinois to escape the family shame (where she becomes a model for Simplicity Patterns).Mom quits her job and stows away with shades drawn in the crumbling Kentucky home (where she is now sole occupant).And Dad?Still dead, and still something of a klutz. He has a difficult time mastering the ways of the afterlife, getting stuck in prison walls and crashing into metal doors while trying to pass through them. But that doesn't stop him from attempting a reconciliation with his son. Without it, both know that true freedom will never come.Praise for THROUGH THE ANT FARM:"Robert Leland Taylor is endlessly inventive in his observations of the human condition. He populates his universe with characters who are both world-weary and naive at the same time. Hilarious and heartbreaking. Every word rings true. More, please." -Gatlin Reed, author of Shelter in Place."A unique voice propels the narrative of Taylor's Through the Ant Farm. Grip is an abused kid with a high IQ, knows he's weird but doesn't know why. This novel is filled with great one-liners, dry observations and sets the stage for a hilarious and memorable tale." -Richard Hine, author of Russell Wiley is out to Lunch."Heart-breakingly funny. This is one of those novels where I find myself sorry for the agents and publishers, and ultimately, the readers-who are missing out on stories and characters such as Robert Leland Taylor can write." -Gae Polisner, author of The Summer of Letting Go.

Times are tough. Lester Banks, a cab driver in Indianapolis, can't pay his bills and is about to get kicked out onto the streets. His neighbor, a gorgeous young college student named Chelsea, is also on the verge of homelessness. He convinces her to become an escort under his guidance and protection. Their financial situation looks like it might improve until some dirty cops step in, demanding their cut. Lester makes a tragic decision to solve his own problems. Then the situation gets worse, more than he could ever have imagined.

Chaos? Or fate? What brought you here? Were the choices yours, or did something outside of you conspire to bring you to this place? Because out in the woods, in a box buried in the ground, there is a little girl who has no hope of seeing the moon tonight. The moon has forsaken her. Because of you. "There is some dark magic in this one. I mean, really dark. Like whittle-my-bones-to-a-bloody-point dark. Jerkins calmly, unflinchingly goes about his business of crafting some troubled yet sympathetic characters who are in dire straits. That he manages to make these characters sympathetic, their problems understandable, is impressive and prompts the reader to consider the justice in violence. But despite the skill of its execution...I must pass." -HarperCollins, Acquisitions Editor Grant Jerkins is the author of A Very Simple Crime, At the End of the Road, The Ninth Step, and Done in One. He lives in the Atlanta area with his wife and son. Visit his website at www.grantjerkins.com.

In his debut short fiction collection, A Scholar of Pain, Grant Jerkins remains-as the Washington Post put it-"Determined to peer into the darkness and tell us exactly what he sees." Here, the depth of that darkness is on evident, oftentimes poetic, display. We meet, and come reluctantly to sympathize with: The office chair-sniffer who only wants to be loved, a bottomed-out cough-syrup addict, a terminally ill school bus driver who takes her young riders on a drunken suicide run, and a cheated-on housewife who discovers her husband's other woman isn't a woman at all, but a…No spoilers here. Just read it. Read all sixteen of these deviant diversions. Peer into the darkness. Praise for A SCHOLAR OF PAIN: "A Scholar of Pain hits that literary sweet spot: Could be crime fiction, might be southern gothic-or even horror. The stories are funny as hell, too. And compassionate. In fact, Jerkins' voice is amongst the most compassionate I've heard, because he extends it to some hideous wretches in a way that underscores the humanity I share with them. I heartily recommend Grant Jerkins." -Jedidiah Ayers, author of Peckerwood and Fierce Bitches "Sophisticated. Elegant. Sleek and demolishing." -Ryan Sayles, author of Subtle Art of Brutality and Warpath "A joyous celebration of the darkness within us all. With A Scholar of Pain, Grant Jerkins gives an unflinching look-with no anger or judgment-into the realities that surround us. It's one thing to write a convincing and compassionate love story, but writing one that involves a sex doll, well that's another thing completely." -DH Tuck, author of Formica