Ferment Press

Short and Experimental Narratives

  1. Tales of Frustrated Musicians


    These five stories, some satiric, others surreal, locate the power of music in the dislocations of the human condition. The story "Sam the Messiah Man" is in this collection

    ..... 80 pgs......$10.00
  2. Four Nature Myths


    3. Pantheistic legends inspired by the traditions of world mythology. One of these legends may be read at Viswakarman

    80 pages .....$10.00
  3. Persephone


    4. A modern re-creation and lyric evocation of the Persephone legend


    20 pages..........$5.00
  4. The Quest for the Absolute


    5. Three stories of Americans in France during the 60's. One of these stories may be read as the final section of an issue of Ferment: Despair

    80 pages.....$10.00
  5. Urban Tendrils


    6. A. Logan Airport


    A non-linear flight of the imagination through various cities of the world, beginning from and returning to Boston's Logan Airport


    B. The Drugstore


    A drugstore in downtown Philadelphia, a moment frozen in time. The technique is cubist, the story minimal. A world of powerful tensions is evoked , although nothing happens.

    80 pgs........$10.00
  6. The Governments of Chelm


    7. In the mythology of the Ashkenazi Jews Chelm, Poland is the village of fools. This story chronicles the inevitable collapse of all attempts made by its wise elderly rabbis to establish a just and/or stable government.

    80 pgs......$10.00
  7. 4 Cynical Christmas Stories


    8. Carols, charity and commerce. In the hallowed 'bah-humbug' tradition.


    40 pages..........$8.00
  8. Transience


    9. A penniless author and drug-addicted art student in Paris in the 60's. They meet only briefly, yet continue to interact indirectly right up to the inexorable tragic ending


    40 pages..........$8.00
  9. Cats and Crazy Razors


    10. As gruesome as it sounds, written in an innovative highly lyrical style


    20 pages..........$5.00
  10. Mutilated Monologues


    11. (1) Cats and Crazy Razors ; (2) Amplitude of the Cosmos; (3) Three Weddings, which can be read here.


    60 pages..........$8.00
  11. Sea Urchins


    12. Excessive ambition and a swollen ego lead to catastrophe for a post-graduate researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratories at Woods Hole, Massachussetts.


    40 pages..........$8.00


    Here is an article on Woods Hole

  12. Barbarians in the Salon


    One will find plenty of agony and ecstasy in these accounts of 3 minor art movements of the 20th Century. One of them is known as "Alienism"


    60 pages..........$8.00
  13. Vagabond Violin


    14. Life on the road with back-pack and fiddle. Click here to find out what happened in Monaco in 1985


    60 pages..........$8.00

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