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Just Like Mosquitos
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Short Story: Julio, the proud leader of a small guerilla unit in the Sierra Maestra during the last days of the Cuban... More > Revolution, is ordered to link up with another unit en route to Santa Clara. The leader of this other unit - a maté sipping, cigar smoking Argentine - immediately takes control, not only of Julio’s unit but also his companion Tara who can’t seem to resist the charms of this charismatic foreigner. Will Julio fight to regain his position or will he cede control for the “good of the revolution”? < Less
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Blue Eyes
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Short Story: Gerhard Durkheim is a German soldier barely out of his teens when assigned to patrol a Jewish ghetto at the... More > onset of World War II. His head filled with propaganda from his days in the Hitler Youth, he obeys his orders, does what he is told, but is unable to fully understand the events taking place around him. Every day on his patrols he sees one particular old man - Stefan Finkle - who always walks the streets with a perpetual smile on his face. Doesn’t this old man understand what’s going on? Intrigued, he begins to keep a close eye on the old man. What he learns about him brings into question everything he had ever known. < Less
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Shutter
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Javier, a former photojournalist turned free lance photographer photographs a young American couple - Dan and... More > Mara - on the streets of Barcelona. He is so taken with Mara that he invents an excuse to approach them, offering to send them a copy of this wonderful photo. After receiving the photo, Mara contacts him with the idea of doing a racy photo shoot of herself as a gift for Dan. Something doesn’t feel right but Javier is so taken with his subject that he would do anything to get her in front of the camera - and learns that people are not always who they appear to be. < Less
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Cafe Noir
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Short Story: Sometime in the mid-1990s. Three friends try to sober up at an East Village coffee shop as a snowstorm rages... More > outside. They spend their time drinking coffee and trying to remain awake, watching hipsters playing pool, reading magazines and generally observing the events taking place around them as they struggle to get straight for their subway ride home. It is when an older couple enters the cafe that things begin to go awry, and the subsequent events cause them to reexamine the state of their own lives. < Less
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Stars, Cigars and Boxcars
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Short Story: 1957: A middle aged New Jersey man watches his young son in the comfort of their middle class home and begins... More > to reminisce about his days riding the rails during The Depression. It is the eve of a world changing event and while he contrasts his own upbringing with that of his son, he can’t help but wonder what this unexpected event will mean for his young boy. < Less
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Black Roses
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Short Story: Jerome is an aspiring actor, loner and a dwarf who often spends his time attending small off-Broadway plays.... More > After seeing a play in a small Greenwich Village theater, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress, Barbara Connor. He begins hanging around her Perry Street apartment, leaving one black rose in front of her door every Sunday morning. But someone is out to steal his thunder, a smooth talking, self-absorbed acting companion of Barbara who intends to take credit for Jerome’s handiwork in order to get closer to Barbara. Will Barbara ever learn the truth? < Less
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Sangre
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Two American G.I.s - Richard Harris and Paul Lamb - survive the bloody allied invasion of Sicily during World... More > War II. Hunkered down in a small Sicilian town, the daughter of a bar owner catches Paul’s wandering eye. The horrors of war soon collides with a local vendetta that follows no rules of war nor does it care about who’s side one is on. < Less
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Rage Against the Dying of the Light
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Mario, a Lower East Side coffee shop owner befriends a youth named Jared, a shy, introverted poet who spends... More > his days sitting outside the shop begging for change. There is more to Jared than meets the eye and it takes the help of Mario’s assistant Kaitlin to help coax Jared out of his shell. Slowly Jared begins to ingratiate himself with the local literary community due to the weekly poetry readings Kailin had begun to stage at the coffee shop. But some strange customers begin appearing, those who don’t like the idea of this kid hanging around the shop and Mario begins to navigate the line between compassion and the changing character of the neighborhood. < Less
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Soon After the Fall
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Short Story: Early 1990. A young American student is studying in Budapest to learn more about her family history, her roots... More > and her culture. Living with an eccentric yoga loving roommate and dating a shy would-be poet, she will navigate the general post-Cold War malaise, getting more of an education than she ever imagined. < Less
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Be Still and Know That I Am
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Being yourself in a sea of mindless cretins is the hardest battle any kid could face.

September 1982. In a working class... More > neighborhood in Queens, New York, sixteen year old Nico Razza is a perpetual outcast, often victim to the taunts of his classmates, peers and neighborhood bullies. Steeped in Punk Rock culture, he is not only rebelling against society, authority and his peers, but also his recently widowed father, who struggles to keep his family together at the dawn of the Reagan era.

Angst ridden Punk Rockers, Van Halen T-shirt wearing Camaro driving bullies and their brain dead foot soldiers, Lower East Side squatters, Alphabet City junkies, Hardcore bands and the infamous A7 club, Reagan’s promise of “Morning in America” and those left behind who still wanted to believe it, working class angst, High School confidential - when these worlds collide over the course of the next ten days, the lives of everyone involved will be changed forever. < Less
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About Julian Gallo

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Julian Gallo lives and works in New York City. His poetry has appeared in over 40 journals throughout the Unites States, Canada and Europe. He is the author of 9 poetry books, "Standing on Lorimer Street Awaiting Crucifixion" (Alpha Beat Press 1996), "The Terror of Your Cunt is the Beauty of Your Face" (Black Spring Press 1999), "Street Gospel Mystical Intellectual Survival Codes" (Budget Press 2000), "Scrape That Violin More Darkly Then Hover Like Smoke in the Air" (Black Spring Press 2001), "Existential Labyrinths" (Black Spring Press 2003), "My Arrival is Marked by Illuminating Stains" (Lulu 2007), "Window Shopping For a New Crown of Thorns" (Lulu 2007), "A Symphony of Olives" (Propaganda Press 2009) and "Divertimiento" (Propaganda Press 2009). He is also the author of 3 novels, "November Rust (2007), "Naderia" (2011) and "Be Still and Know That I Am" (2011). He is also a regular contributor to BrooWaha.com