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Wordland 7: Mountebanks
Tread carefully now, because you're about to rub shoulders with mountebanks, tricksters, charlatans, illusionists and rogues. Watch out for fly-by-nights, fakers and fakirs. Keep a look out for clowns, japesters, carpetbaggers and cardsharps. Watch the cards carefully. Find the lady. Ooh, bad luck. Why not try again? Come on, lay your money down. you're bound to win this time...

Wordland 7; edited by Allen Ashley and packed full of fiction and poetry from, Lynn Hoffman, Joan McNerney, James G. Piatt, Liz Gwinnell, Gary Budgen, Rhys Hughes, Larry Leftkowitz, David Turnbull, Parker Weston, Paul Hostovsky, Nigel Wilson, Lana Bella, Ken Poyner, Stephen Oram, J,J, Steinfeld, Len Kuntz, A. J. Kirby, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, Toti O'Brien and Sarah Doyle. Cover art by Faye Reynolds.

Print HERE £4.00 | eBook HERE £2.20 | Also available in all other eBook formats
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Wordland 6: Black is the New Black 

​Black...the colour of mourning, the colour of night, the absence of colour, nothingness. Prose and poetry from those brave, or foolhardy, enough to plumb its ebon mysteries.

Featuring the work of Allen Ashley, Mark Lewis, A J Huffman, James B Nicola, Sarah Doyle, Donal Mahoney, Samantha Porter, J J Seinfeld, David Turnbull, Rosetta Newman and many more...

Print HERE £3.50 | eBook HERE £2.20 | Also available in all eBook formats
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WORDLAND 5: TRUE LOVE: 
What is love? 
Is it the first flush of desperate passion and emotion unleashed when two hearts are first entwined? Is it the steady affection of the long-term couple?  
Or is it something stranger, less easy to define: 
  • the love between two friends 
  • the love between human and object 
  • the all-consuming obsession of the stalker 
  • the energiser of murder, mayhem and war 
Can it span time? Can it span the unthinkable distances of space? Can it span the awful gulf between life and death? Can it be described at all?
Stories and poetry from: Alyson Shore Adler, Allen Ashley, Richard Farren Barber, Cathleen Cohen, C A Cole, Gary Couzens, Sarah Doyle, iDrew, Michael Estabrook, Martin Feekins, Gene Hines, Clinton Van Inman, Mark Howard Jones, John Kaniecki, A J Kirby, Donal Mahoney, Roscoe Matthews, David McGroaty, Joan McNearny, Hal O'Leary, Alex Lenkeit, Mark Lewis, James B Nicola, Richard King Perkins II, Gynette Pywell, Nicholas Ridley, David Rix, Douglas Thompson, John Travis, Sandra Unerman, Deborah Walker
Free and on-line HERE | Print  HERE (£3.99) | eBook  HERE (£1.99) | Kindle HERE (£1.57)


Wordland 4: Whited Sepulchres

"...for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward 
but are within full of dead mens  bones and of all uncleaness." The Gospel of St Matthew 23:27

Whited sepulchres
Whitewashed and gleaming in in the sun. 

Whited sepulchres
The politician's smile
The deceiver's handshake
The freshly painted house of secrets

Whited sepulchres
We know where to find them
Let us show you.
Take our clammy, tremulous hands, and we will lead you inside and deep into their rotten hearts. 

Featuring Allen Ashley, Gary Couzens, A J Kirby, Stuart Hughes, Sarah Doyle, Valentino Cano, Jessica Lawrence, Steve Byrne, Mark Howard Jones, John Travis, J J Steinfeld, Gary Budgen, Martin Feekins and many many more

Free and on-line HERE
Print version available HERE for £3.74
Kindle version available HERE for £3.05

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Wordland 3: What they saw in the sky

Stories and poetry from those who have looked up  and seen dark and fearful
wonders beyond cloud,  sun, moon and stars.
Allen Ashley, Steve Byrne, Valentino Cano, Mike Corum, Gary Couzens, Sarah Doyle, Frank Duffy, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Martin Feekins, John Forth, Terry Grimwood (ed), Jane Hertenstein, A J Huffman, Rhys Hughes, Michael Lee Johnson, Mark Howard Jones, A J Kirby, Grove Koger, Ron. Lavalette, Jessica Lawrence, Tony Lovell (also cover artist), Donal Mahoney, Terry Martin, James B Nicola, Mangal Patel, J J Steinfeld, Len Saculla, Douglas Thompson, John Travis, Marion Turner and Samuel K Wilkes

Free and online HERE









Wordland 2: Hi Honey, I'm Home

Now we've all seen the clips from those wholesome old monochrome US sitcoms; the toothsome husband back from a busy day in the ubiquitous office, smart in his suit, carrying a brief case and perhaps wearing a natty raincoat. He takes off his trilby and hangs it on its peg and utters those immortal words. BUT...Who (or what) is really hanging up that hat in the hall? Exactly what awaits him in his suburban palace?
"Hi Honey I'm Home" prose and poetry from the soft white underbelly of home and hearth from Madeline Lacques-Aranda, Robert Mammone, Mary Cresswell, Sarah Barr, Michael Estabrook, Juan Manuel Perez, Samantha Porter,Joe Young, Martin Feekins, Jill Crammons, Phil Richardson, Mike Berger, John Forth, Rhys Hughes, Suri Phillips, Trevor Denyer, Len Saculla, Rocky Wilson, Gavin Ireland, Philip Meeks, Douglas Thompson and Allen Ashley. Cover art by Faye Grimwood (http://blackedgeart.weebly.com/)

Free on-line version HERE
Also available as Paperback (£3.04) ePub (£1.50) and as a Kindle download (£2.85)
Hi Honey, I'm Home Paperback Edition
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Wordland 1: Twilight

Twilight is a time of transition, a moment , not always quiet or still, when light fades and darkness sets in, when something ends and something begins...

Hello, welcome to Wordland.

Wordland is a thrice-yearly, fiction and poetry magazine published by theEXAGGERATEDpress.

Wordland 1: Twilight is currently available for free and contains work from the likes of Allen Ashley, Douglas Thompson, Stephen Bacon, John Forth, Farah Ghuznavi, Mark Howard Jones and Jessica Lawrence.