Here’s a listing of the books Rasmenia wrote, or helped to write with various talented authors and equally talented editors.
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Tied Within is a quirky yet gritty novella for fans of S.E. Hinton or Catcher in the Rye.
It’s when you’re a teenager that you get to decide who you’re going to be. For Theresa, it means renaming herself Bronwyn and reconstructing every detail about her appearance. Dominic decides it means shaving his hair into a mohawk and emulating his punk rock idols. Their best friend Ivy still can’t figure out who she is, but she knows she’d give anything to be more than the little girl who survived the brutal murder of her parents at the hands of a deranged serial killer. All three friends are running from the hand they’ve been dealt, but in a single night, they’ll be forced to reckon with reality at a terrible cost.
Set in northern Colorado in the early 90s, Tied Within is a story about what it means to feel like a weirdo while searching for an identity in a world that has already decided who you are.
Paperback, 106 pages
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This autobiographical zine brings together true crime, childhood fear, and a classic short story in order to ask the chilling question: How can you be certain that you’re still alive?
Paperback, 16 pages
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Drunks. Addicts. Killers. The dead, dying, deformed, damaged, ashamed, and abused. Misunderstood and overlooked human beings are everywhere around us, and have a story to tell to those who are willing to listen. You Don’t See Any of This is an emotional, quirky, and sometimes dangerous tour through the lives of downtrodden, regular, working-class characters who inhabit complicated inner worlds. Two little girls struggle as they’re crushed under the weight of their mother’s hoarding. A woman born with physical deformities creates her own way of healing others. A brutal man finds his humanity while a young girl finds the killer inside her. Faced with grief, loss, death, ageing, as well as their own failures and defects, these are stories of people we pass by every day, but rarely see unless we take the time to look.
Paperback, 206 pages ISBN: 978-0244091507
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Broken Abroad is a collection of stories about nine different Americans in Europe. They are not searching for traces of their ancestors. They’re searching for themselves, for the meaning of home and the road forward. A woman cuts the resemblance to her mother away from her flesh. A grieving sister tries to honor her twin brother, whose ashes she carries in her pocket. Survivors of a mass shooting find refuge in a fairy tale. These are stories of the lost, damaged and grief-stricken who have run far away from home, to another country, only to find that life and death will follow them everywhere.
Paperback, 150 pages ISBN: 978-1304007735
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Human Detritus is a collection of nine short works about the kind of people we’ve all encountered: a victim. A teacher. A dysfunctional family. A slut and a factory worker. Told with caustic anger and sardonic humor, these are stories of human debris left behind by some and absorbed by others.
Tales of surviving, failing and awakening, Human Detritus is an examination of the impact that every day nobodies make on one another, leaving us all a little less rotten or maybe a little more despicable in the process.
Paperback, 148 pages ISBN: 978-0-557-93379-2
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“It’s best to do what your dad says without making any waves.”
Robin understood it was the men in her life who had the control. After a lifetime of feeling powerless and witnessing her mother’s potential being crushed under the weight of compliance, Robin is ready to fight back, even if it means pushing against those closest to her.
Released in honor of International Women’s Day, this short ebook is free to download wherever you buy ebooks. It’s about mothers, daughters, sisterhood, and learning to resist after a lifetime of letting men take the wheel.
eBook, 21 pages ISBN: 978-0-463-96847-5
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Eclectic Flash is a nonprofit online and print literary journal dedicated to bringing readers the best flash literature available, regardless of style or genre. Poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction, short script essay, experimental, literary, horror, science fiction, contemporary, postmodern–it doesn’t matter. If it’s fewer than 1,000 words, you can find it here.
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Rainstorm Press presents “I’ll Never Go Away Vol. 2“
Written within these pages are the tales of those who have loved, lost and taken. With explicit thoughts and actions, this book is perfect for those who love a frightening story. Horror is not just blood and gore. Real horror are those thoughts that play with our mind.
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The one-year anniversary edition of The Rusty Nail, a magazine of literature & the arts.
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Black Heart Magazine’s first digital issue of 2015 collects together 10 years’ worth of of short fiction, poetry, author interviews and more.
Including Best of the Net nominees, popular favorites, and lots of kick-ass author interviews, you’ll find the best of Black Heart’s unique brand of literary mayhem packed into this issue’s 177 pages.
This issue Includes short fiction, poetry, character crushes, venomous villains, and author interviews from a wide variety of featured contributors.
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“We cannot get rid of mankind’s fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM.” –Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick
As the U.S. continues to simmer with violence, and mass-shootings continue to pile bodies into graves at an alarming rate, it’s time to take action.
No more “thoughts and prayers.”
No more fuzzy sentiments.
No more excuses.
No more bullshit.
DISARM, a charity anthology created by Black Heart Magazine, includes short fiction, personal essays and poetry in a gun sense anthology, which will wholly benefit the Gun Safety Lobby to bring about legislation and meaningful changes to our country.
All proceeds will benefit Everytown for Gun Safety.
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Featuring Rasmenia’s Pushcart Prize nominated novella, Circuits End.
Our editor declared these novellas the best of the best among this collection. If you must only pick up one book of this volume, then this is the one to choose. Although, in all fairness, they are all pretty amazing. Don’t choose. Get them all.
“Taken together, what connects these mostly engaging stories are a sympathy and humor for life’s outcasts… the anthology is always entertaining and lives up to its title. A collection that delivers a strange and ultimately satisfying ride.” -Kirkus Reviews
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