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Noir Nation: International" is an absolutely mind-blowingly awesome collection of dark noir-ish crime fiction. It is just that good. These are not necessarily stories about the bright side of life or happy-go-lucky pious individuals, but these are good hard-driven stories that grab you by something and don't let go.

Here you have a story about an ex-con struggling to escape his past, recalling that offered a lot of time to catch up on your reading, but now that he's out, he wouldn't read a book to save his life, a story about another ex-con who can't help himself from robbing a 7-Eleven, a story about a surgeon who admits to being a bad guy, but disclaims being a monster, a story about a kid whose mother just walked out on her and never looked back, and a story about a parolee who can't stop being in the game.

There are also stories for animal lovers or haters: one about burying dead kangaroos in a vandalized cemetery, one about a seagull's head in Christine's refrigerator, she being the English teacher of fantasies, and a sweet fantasy about snakes and dentists.

There are also some violent, nasty pieces that will leave you very uncomfortable.

The stories are enhanced by some essays about the nature of noir and photographs of tattooed women.


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Noir Nation International Crime Fiction No 1 edition by Eddie Vega Cortright McMeel Alan Ward Thomas JJ Toner Paul D Brazill Tristan Davies Scott Wolven Leah Chamberlain Jean Charbonneau Cortright McMeel Alan Ward Thomas Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

There should be warnings about stories like these. I almost stopped reading Noir Nation at RF Warner's "A Dog of a Different Breed." But I'll be damned, the next day I read it again. Warner had scared me into thinking I didn't like it, but his sharp style and cunning writing overrode my fear.
Then there's Kevin Hardcastle's first sentence in "Work" - In the dark and pisswet alleyway Daniel stood under one meager light. - Damn! Hardcastle keeps it going all the way through, edgy and beautiful, no waste.
Tristan Davies' "Surgeons" will make you schedule a visit with your gynecologist, if you have one..
Each story has something memorable and different from anything I've read, which could be true of any collection, but Noir Nation offers death, dancers, sex, revenge, beer and drugs, cold landscapes and crazies and prisoners (not just in prison)- stuff that pulls you in, takes you beyond your typical life to the atypical and makes you realize that with one move you could be headed in a noir direction. The interview and essays are informative, especially for someone new to noir, like me. The writing throughout is TIGHT.

You can get Noir Nation anywhere with an e-connection, fitting since it's an international e-journal. I use 's free for PC. Still, I'd like to be able to hold Noir Nation in my hands, to give a copy to friends.. but this isn't to be, at least not yet.. which is a con, if you can judge a book by the way it's delivered.
This brand-new journal is like an appetizer tray at a really cool party. I'm not a person who normally reads or enjoys short stories (need more meat), but I gotta say this sampler really satisfied.

The mix of short fiction, academic-ish essays on the meaning of noir, plus a tease of a graphic novel make for a really swell read. An extra bonus for a commuter like me is that text-to-speech is enabled, which means I can listen to Noir Nation on the way to work. (The computer-y voice kind of adds to the noir-ness.)

The fiction writing is excellent, just literary enough to be meaningful but not experimentally weird enough to be annoying. In other words, it's all readable and gripping. The work is also realistic enough to be truly creepy."FTW" by Scott Wolven and "Jelly Babies" by JJ Toner put you right inside their criminals' minds, while other stories ring quirkily true, including one by ex-con Les Edgerton of a mundane holdup gone not bad but, well, weird. There are a lot of US authors here, but Canada, the Czech Republic and Nigeria are represented, too. (Not sure if editor Eddie Vega can truly claim Brooklyn AND Cuba as nationalities, but hey, what do I know?)

The essays about the noir genre are surprising and thought-provoking, including a variety of writers' opinions as to whether crime fiction should have a moral point. As a sort of noir nonfiction writer myself (I'm a crime reporter), I wrestle with the same question. One writer who's in favor of weaving in some moral matter suggests that stories "immerse the reader in a world they wouldn't encounter otherwise." That, I sense, is exactly what makes noir fun, even when there's a moral lesson lurking in there somewhere.

Oh, and then there's a ballad-like poem by Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde infamy, with its hilarious reference to the NRA and lyrical lines like "About the third night/they're invited to fight/by a sub gun's rat-a-tat-tat."

My only sort-of complaint (okay, I have two and they're not really complaints) is that the beautifully drawn graphic story at the end isn't long enough before it leaves us dangling. Which leads to my other complaint Noir Nation's next issue won't be out until next summer, if I read their website correctly.

Bummer! That's a long time to wait for another gem like this.
Noir Nation International" is an absolutely mind-blowingly awesome collection of dark noir-ish crime fiction. It is just that good. These are not necessarily stories about the bright side of life or happy-go-lucky pious individuals, but these are good hard-driven stories that grab you by something and don't let go.

Here you have a story about an ex-con struggling to escape his past, recalling that offered a lot of time to catch up on your reading, but now that he's out, he wouldn't read a book to save his life, a story about another ex-con who can't help himself from robbing a 7-Eleven, a story about a surgeon who admits to being a bad guy, but disclaims being a monster, a story about a kid whose mother just walked out on her and never looked back, and a story about a parolee who can't stop being in the game.

There are also stories for animal lovers or haters one about burying dead kangaroos in a vandalized cemetery, one about a seagull's head in Christine's refrigerator, she being the English teacher of fantasies, and a sweet fantasy about snakes and dentists.

There are also some violent, nasty pieces that will leave you very uncomfortable.

The stories are enhanced by some essays about the nature of noir and photographs of tattooed women.