HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Controversies
O:JA&L FREE PRESSES Chapbook Series
Mick McGrath
PEOPLE with whom I am quite pissed
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celebrating the publication of Mick McGrath’s PDF collection of short stories.
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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 a cofounder of the journal Index Liborum Prohibitorum, debuting in 2023 as one of the few online resources that welcome anti-woke congress.
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