You wouldn't buy a pair of jeans that look brand-new: why buy a book that shrieks, "I just went to the... More > bookstore!"?

"Confederates [Distressed]" has that well-worn broken-in look that says that this is a book owned by a real hipster, one who has read it many times and knows it inside and out. Yet it doesn't require that you actually read it.

Cover by Rob Eggleston. < Less

Excerpt:

If there’s nothing you can do right, then you can do anything wrong. At least that’s the way we saw it.

We... More > decided to sell everything we could and then hitchhike cross-country. The for-sale sign that we posted publicly in the school mailroom read:
ATTENTION!
We are going to run away and “split for the coast” and we need “bread.”
Everything must go. Come to our rooms and see what we have.
Wilson and Pasty.

And we weren’t kidding, although everybody assumed we were. < Less

Jay loves women. Jay loves sex. Jay loves intimacy and acceptance. That is what Jay wants more than anything else in the... More > world.


Jay is dying, and slides in and out of reality. His whole life has slid in and out of reality... geez. All his life people have been scheming about him and tracking his every move.


What Jay needs is to take control, of his life and of many other things. And he does. < Less

Jay loves women. Jay loves sex. Jay loves intimacy and acceptance. That is what Jay wants more than anything else in the... More > world. Jay is dying, and slides in and out of reality. His whole life has slid in and out of reality . . . geez. All his life people have been scheming about him and tracking his every move. What Jay needs is to take control, of his life and of many other things. And he does. < Less

Jay loves women. Jay loves sex. Jay loves intimacy and acceptance. That is what Jay wants more than anything else in the... More > world.


Jay is dying, and slides in and out of reality. His whole life has slid in and out of reality... geez. All his life people have been scheming about him and tracking his every move.


What Jay needs is to take control, of his life and of many other things. And he does. < Less

Keywords: love, sex, romance, spies, spooks, intelligence community, military industrial complex, death, dying. And, uh, bondage.

This edition absolutely screams, "Sue me!" Destined to be a real collector's item. Buy several.

Excerpt:

If there’s nothing you can do right, then you can do anything wrong. At least that’s the way we saw it.

We... More > decided to sell everything we could and then hitchhike cross-country. The for-sale sign that we posted publicly in the school mailroom read:
ATTENTION!
We are going to run away and “split for the coast” and we need “bread.”
Everything must go. Come to our rooms and see what we have.
Wilson and Pasty.

And we weren’t kidding, although everybody assumed we were. < Less