Rabid Transit: Long Voyages, Great Lies (2006)

Wild and wooly journeys await. These six stories all hang together in a beautiful and peculiar total package--meandering through (among many, many other places) the cartographies of the heart. Not to be missed!

The Mom Walk: A Story in Five Stories, by Alice Kim
Shackles, by David Schwartz
My Whole World Lies Waiting, by F. Brett Cox
Mountain, Man, by Heather Shaw
The Ghost Line, by Meghan McCarron
Release the Bats, by Geoffrey H. Goodwin

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Rabid Transit: Menagerie (2005)

This year we made the leap to perfect binding, because we just had...too...much...fiction to put in. Could...not...be contained by...staples! (And yet it still has the same price as last year. Damn!) But seriously, the works this year are truly incredible. The stories range all over the world--as well as all over the fabulist possiblities of the short story.

Terminos, by Dean Francis Alfar
PICK, I am, I am., by James Allison
Fragments, by Matthew Cheney
The Sky Green Box, by Rudi Dornemann
Ballerina, Ballerina, by Eric Rickstad
The Sign in the Window, by Vandana Singh

Reviews

"...there is something to recommend about each of the stories here; and "The Sign in the Window" and "Terminós" are so good that it's worth s pending six dollars on Menagerie just to read those two; and -- who knows? -- you may well enjoy more.--David Hebblethwaite, SF Site <

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Rabid Transit: Petting Zoo (2004)

Each year we keep adding a story. Which means by the year 2100 we'll have quite an encylopediac volume. In the meantime, rest assured that the six stories herein are incredible off-kilter gems. All, in whatever fashion, are brilliant medidations on history, archetype, and the narrative impulse itself. Rounded out with "Heat Flute", a brilliant comic by our cover artist Jesse McManus; and illustrations throughout by Emily Percy, Petting Zoo is a rich panoply of word and image.

Art is Not a Violent Subject, by M. Rickert
The Golden Age of Fire Escapes, by John Aegard (on the Locus Recommended Reading List; honorable mention for the Speculative Literature Foundation's Fountain Award)
Five Irrational Histories, by David Moles (on the Locus Recommended Reading List)
How to Write an Epic Fantasy, by David Lomax
Ophelia and the Beast, by Elad Haber
Storyville, by Amber van Dyk

Early exciting blog reviews (and an interview! kind of!)! From Mumpsimus and Snurri.

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Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats (2003)

Extending the ratbastard family in grand fashion. Five stories by writers who can really bring it. Kick it. Whatever. The point is, these innovative fictions will make you laugh, cry, think, redefine in your mind the very idea of what fiction is supposed to do--maybe all at once.

Victoria Garcia, "Wally's Porn"
Doug Lain, "Headline Trick"
Dave Hoffman-Daschlett, "Braiding"
Nick Mamatas, "joannierules.bloggermax.com"
Haddayr Copley-Woods, "Gramercy Park"

Reviews

Review on Tangent by Therese Pieczynski

"Rabid Transit is an excellent chapbook collection of short fiction...Dramatic, comedic, conspiracy, and just uncatagorizable. This chapbook is well worth the price." --Poopsheet

"...this five-story project does indeed navigate the borderland between genre and mainstream. In a story such as David J. Hoffman-Dachelet's "Braiding," with its eerie identity metamorphosis, or in "Wally's Porn" by Victoria Elizabeth Garcia, where a porn writer's unraveling mentality serves as a kind of twilight zone, we see a fruitful and daring transgression of all borders." -- Paul Di Filipo, Asimov's

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Rabid Transit: New Fiction by the Ratbastards (2002)

"The Blue Egg" by Chris Barzak
"The Psalm of Big Galahad" by Barth Anderson
"A Number of Hooves" by Alan DeNiro
"Even a Worm Will Turn" by Kristin Livdahl

Reviews, Vibe, Resonances, etc.:

All four stories are Honorable Mentions in 2003's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology.

"All in all, a strong debut volume from some new talents." --Paul Di Filipo, Asimov's

"Really, this may be one of the most meaningful chapbook anthologies of the year testing, as it does, the margins and borders of interstitial fiction." --Forrest Aguirre, Project Pulp

"It's a thing of beauty, full of little marvels, and though the writers have similar artistic goals, the stories could hardly be more different from one another....The Ratbastards have long careers ahead of them, and if this chapbook is any indication, they will do great things indeed." --Tim Pratt, Locus

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