HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies
Pamphlet Series: Fiction Preview
An excerpt from Mick McGrath’s new short story collection PEOPLE with whom I am quite pissed,
available now from O:JA&L’s HOT BUTTON PRESS.
Click on the title to explore the full text of the free PDF chapbook.
Mick McGrath
THE FUTURE IS MAO!
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from O:JA&L’s HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies.
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About the writer:
MICK MCGRATH has an MFA from the University of Tennessee. His writing has appeared in Terror House Magazine, The Thieving Magpie, and elsewhere. His novel The Deplorable was serialized in 2023. McGrath is the cofounder of the journal Index Librorum Prohibitorum debuting in 2023 as one of the few online resources that welcomes anti-woke content.
Image: Solitary (AI-assisted digital image) by O:JA&L staff creative. Proprietary image. 2025.
Other works by Mick McGrath in the O:JA&L Free Presses catalog:
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THE DEPLORABLE
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