Scavenging

Rene S Perez II, 1 march 2024

“Perez shines a high beam on lives never in the spotlight. His stories abduct you, sweet you across an America you never knew existed” SANDRA CISNEROS.

Scavenging is a collection of stories of lives in motion – some adrift, some propelled out into the nothing, some compelled by the promise of good. On either side of an ocean, they’re familiar as memories of home and real as how far away we find ourselves. From the author of acclaimed novels Seeing Off The Johns and Two Twins, Scavenging is comprised of new stories and collects, for the first time for UK audiences, selections from his award-winning debut.

CLUB VD ANTHOLOGY  IV

Various authors, May 5th, 2023

Ears pinned back, tail between the legs, shades on, soundcheck 1-2-3, have you got a drink there, love? We’re sharing more print on paper proper weird and wonderful talent grown out of good old London Town and beyond, with this, the fourth volume of writing from friends and family of Club Verbal Discharge, or as we like to call it, Club VD, the catching open mic night for writers in Central London.

Formed in 2017 by the writer Brian Kelly and poet/musician Rob Hennebry, this baby has teeth, fists, and is running at speed towards your brain through the wonder of imagination to fingers to keyboards to printers to your reading eyes.

MURPH

When a virus makes everyone’s internet history public, Murph finds his joke shop swarmed with customers seeking a disguise to escape the penetrating gaze of facial recognition software. Murph takes on a young assistant to avoid dealing with a public he blames on the death of his wife, but when Alex Marie’s band ‘The Noses’ become overnight idols of a new subculture, the intrusions into Murph’s sealed existence continue. Told in two interleaving narratives, the characters are ultimately forced to choose between forgiveness or shame, between the future or the past.

£7.99 + p&p

FRANK

Tara Basi, 2022

Is the future coming to kiss you on the cheek or kick you in the head?  Find out in this brilliant collection of SF shorts. The tales are funny, scary, romantic, epic, and strange.  From the tale of a poor boy whose football team has been eaten by aliens; the adventures of a young woman who only wants to follow and be followed but finds the costs horrific; an old woman’s redemption in an asylum run by automata, and the life of Frank who finds comfort in fixing robots when the love of his life is lost.  And many more.

£7.99 + p&p

CLUB VD ANTHOLOGY  3

Various authors, Spring 2022

This anthology gives a taste of the quality work that has been aired in Club VD this year. If you like what you read, please come on down to the Perini & Perini Bar and get involved in the next Club VD.

£7.99 + p&p

Comes with pass to next Club VD

CLUB VD ANTHOLOGY  Vol. 2

Various authors, November 6, 2020

This anthology celebrates the best writing in Club VD during 2020. All copies come signed by one of the authors and include a VD badge that gets you into your next night at Club Verbal Discharge for free.

£2.99 + p&p

Comes with pass to next Club VD

CLUB VD ANTHOLOGY  1

Various authors, August 5th, 2019

This anthology gives a taste of the quality work that has been aired in Club VD this year. The writers have also recorded a performance of their work for your aural enjoyment, which can be downloaded from this very website after your purchase. If you like what you hear, please come on down to the Perini & Perini Bar and get involved in the next Club VD.