This holiday season, check out our books featuring fiction, poetry, and anthologies about war and peace, some available as e-books,

including--

-- PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART (short stories by Mitchell Waldman)

 -- A WOMAN'S SONG (poetry by Diana May-Waldman)

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Fiction for less...Now, if you have a Kindle, you can get  a free sample of my short story collection, PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART on Amazon. If you like it, you can buy it for UNDER 5 BUCKS!

 Stories of ordinary people engaged in… Read full post »

...William Faulkner said that an author’s job is to make the extraordinary seem ordinary and to make the ordinary seem extraordinary, and in Petty Offenses & Crimes of the Heart this is what Waldman accomplishes. While reading the stories you may wonder “Is there any place safe… Read full post »

I was a Chicago boy, very impressionable. Read about it in my poem at The Piker Press:

New York City, 1979: A Collage

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A convenience store clerk (and artist) is shot in the head, sending him on the most bizarre trip and job interview of his life/death.

Check out my new short story "Job Interview", at Milk Sugar, online now at:
http://milksugarliterature.com/mitchellw...

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Mitchell W.

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I was  excited to find out yesterday that my story, "The Duke of Broad Street," included in my new short story collection, PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

 --Mitchell Waldman

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Check out my new poems at Moronic Ox Literary and Cultural Review: 

 Blueprints to Black

      Newspapers blowing in the streets
sticking to granite walls
matchstick corpses piled naked in a pit....

Thank you, Midwest Book Review, for your review of my short story collection, PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART:

We wrong ourselves as much as we wrong others. "Petty Offenses & Crimes of the Heart" is a collection of short fiction… Read full post »

My new short story collection, Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart is now available for purchase!

Petty Offenses & Crimes of the Heart
 

stories by Mitchell Waldman
    

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Check out my new short stories now online:

Welcome to the Corporation at Troubadour 21

Honk for Jesus at The Big Stupid Review

And see a couple reviews of my soon to be released short story collection:

PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART

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CHECK OUT THE NEW FRESH JULY ISSUE OF BLUE LAKE REVIEW (OUR TENTH ISSUE) NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR YOUR READING PLEASURE AT: http://bluelakereview.weebly.com

     She didn't know what to think anymore. The question went way beyond whether her son had meant to rob the man, whether he had been harassing the man on the subway, whether he had just been going along with his friends, or whether he deserved what he had g… Read full post »

New short story: The Nazi Next Door @ Red Fez

 --IT ALL STARTED WITH A PACKAGE placed on Borglund's doorstep at two o'clock in the morning....

Check it out at: http://www.redfez.net/redfez/SubPage1.php?page=SubStory&ID=289

New poetry @ Blue Ships Magazine: http://content… Read full post »

Check out my new short (flash fiction) story at Litsnack....

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What would you do if you were given a magic gift? Check out my new story..."The Miracle Man" at The Piker Press.

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Mitchell Waldman

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I threw the television out the window. Let me tell you why....

So starts my new story "Listen: A Better Life is Coming"...Read the rest at The Legendary.

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Mitchell Waldman

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It’s easier for them. The black and whiteness of it all. The people of Egypt, Bahrain, and Libya, rising up against autocrats living high in their self-appointed monarchies while the masses look for jobs, food, and justice in an obviously unequal society. But here, in the U… Read full post »

Check out the latest issue of BLUE LAKE REVIEW, featuring a great variety of new fiction and poetry from experienced and new up and coming writers, including David Brendan Hopes, Donald O'Donovan, Gene Hines, Leslie Teel, Kristi Wallwork, David A. Ross,  Patrick Lawrence… Read full post »

If you have a chance, please check out the third (and final) part of my long short story, "The Duke of Broad Street," at The Piker Press -HERE!

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The second installment of my short story "The Duke of Broad Street" is now online at The Piker Press. If you're interested, check it out HERE.

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    Since Julius Wolsey had arrived in Rochester he'd slept under the Broad Street Bridge. It had been over twenty years since he'd set foot in this town....

Check out the rest of Part 1 of THE DUKE OF BROAD STREET, at The Piker Press. 

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     The story starts like this....

             "On the street where I grew up people didn't live so much as they died. Big deaths, little deaths. Nate Wasserman -- father of Bobby, Joe and Arnold, who I babysat once, wh… Read full post »

Check out my new short story, A BETTER PLACE TO BE , at trans lit magazine.

The January issue of BLUE LAKE REVIEW is now up for your reading pleasure. Great new fiction and poetry by John Gifford, David LaBounty, Len Kuntz, James Hanley, and Timothy Reilly,  Lyn Lifshin, Howie Good, David McLean, William Doreski, Kenneth Gurney, Lee Marc Stein,… Read full post »

Two of my new poems --TechnoEnd and I Was a Thief--are now featured at Moronic Ox Literary & Cultural Journal.

Also, readers and writers, check out the new online literary magazine, Blue Lake Review. There's some great poetry, fiction, and essays there. Check it out. Submit a piece!

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