The Ugly Salon - Tapa blanda

Five stories; the main one explores an aspiring writer who's part of a writing salon competing for a Grand Prize and ends up undergoing an ordeal forcing him to tell one of his own.

Garrett Murphy is well-known in the Bay Area poetry scene as a political and human nature satirist. He lives in Oakland, CA, and has written several chapbooks of poetry and prose, Call 9-1-1 (and Mister Punch), Mother Nature Has Become a Terrorist!, I, Eye!, Now Showing, and the novel Yang But Yin: The Legend of Miss Dragonheel. He has also had works published in the Sacred Grounds Anthology, the New Now Now New Millennium Turn-On Anthology, Street Spirit, and At Home in the Land of the Dead, among others.