Breaking Glass by AlecCizak Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2018 by Abc Group Documentation ISBN-13: 978-1-948235-24-2, ISBN: 1-948235-24-2
"It's summer, 2016. Chelsea Farmer has awoken from one nightmare into another. Once a call girl with no control over her life, she's lost even more control, becoming another statistic in the opioid epidemic eating America from the inside out. Shacking up with a woman she may or may not be in love with, and three men unaware of just how useless they've become, she participates in home invasions to steal material goods that can be traded f ..."
Down on the Street by AlecCizak Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2017 by Abc Group Documentation, An Imprint Of Down & Out Books ISBN-13: 978-1-943402-88-5, ISBN: 1-943402-88-4
"What price can you put on a human life? Cabbie Lester Banks can’t pay his bills. His gorgeous young neighbor, Chelsea, is also one step from the streets. Lester makes a sordid business deal with her. Things turn out worse than he could ever have imagined. “Alec Cizak demonstrates in Down on the Street that he remains among the top fiction writers alive, regardless of genre. This is a crime story, but it’s so much more. Words like sharpe ..."
Lake County Incidents by AlecCizak Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2019 by Abc Group Documentation ISBN-13: 978-1-64396-067-8, ISBN: 1-64396-067-9
"Welcome to Lake County, a group of small towns near Gary, Indiana, where the macabre and unusual collide with contemporary life and throw ordinary men and women out of their comfort zones and into the unthinkable. In these twelve stories, a ghostly presence leaps off a satellite image on the Internet and terrorizes the real world, a drug allows its users to interact with the dead, a popular energy drink turns consumers into religious ze ..."
Manifesto Destination by AlecCizak Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 2018 by All Due Respect ISBN-13: 978-1-946502-96-4, ISBN: 1-946502-96-0
"Elmore Johnson has only got two friends, the bottle of Jim Beam in his coat pocket and a revolver named Lorraine. He worked for the Indianapolis Police Department until they booted him for exposing dirty cops. Now he makes a meager living snapping seedy photos. But when Elmore shoots pictures of the daughter of a wealthy CEO making cheap porn, the girl ends up dead. As the bodies pile up, Elmore finds himself trapped in the heart of a b ..."
Crooked Roads Crime Stories by AlecCizak Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2018 by All Due Respect ISBN-13: 978-1-946502-97-1, ISBN: 1-946502-97-9
"You want heartfelt sensitive stories about the mid-life crisis of a middle-class white guy? How about ironic tales of suburban marriages where the love has faded? Yeah, if that’s what you want, pick up some other book, because Crooked Roads, Alec Cizak’s first short story collection, is not for you. This book is about real humans in the real streets of cities and small towns. People who are messed up, people at the edge of things—at the ..."
"Read tomorrow's best-selling authors today in the first and best multi-genre pulp fiction journal. Since 2011, Pulp Modern has offered a wide variety of fiction from authors who have gone on to write some of today's most compelling novels."
Cool It Down (Paperback) by AlecCizak Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2021 by Abc Group Documentation ISBN-13: 978-1-64396-238-2, ISBN: 1-64396-238-8
"Review: "In Cool It Down, Alec Cizak's follow-up to Breaking Glass, Blake Ness wends through a Florida town's web of paranoia and conspiracy."
"This is it, Switchblade: Tech Noir, the ultimate cutting edge cyberpunk anthology—and that’s only the half of it. One of a two volume set, featuring hard boiled gutter noir, with a sci-fi twist. Presented alongside the ultimate cyber Pulp companion issue, Pulp Modern: Tech Noir. Ten hard-hitting no luck tales from dystopian doomsayers. With fiction from Callum McSorley, James Edward O’Brien, Mandi Jourdan, Hugh Lessig, Rob D. Smith, Joh ..."
"A tsunami-sized crime wave of hardboiled noir from some of the most enduring names in crime fiction, outside of the New York Five. This is the biggest, most robust issue of Switchblade yet. An all-star lineup, brimming with hard luck tales from some of the best outlaw fiction storytellers in print. Court Merrigan and Rob Pierce are in this issue. Indianapolis crime writer, and managing editor of Pulp Modern, Alec Cizak, has a story in t ..."
"With Fiction, Flash and Poetry from Robert Ragan, David Harry Moss, Gene Breaznell, Serena Jayne, Jay Rohr, Brian Beatty, Elliot F. Sweeney, Stanton McCaffery, Danny Sophabmisay, Andrew Bourelle, George Garnet, David Rachels, and Alec Cizak ..."
"Predators thrive on entropy. They’re often the ones closest to us. They know where we’re most vulnerable—where it hurts the most. They come in all types. They cruise the street anonymously, looking for victims; or they return to us like a lethal rash from an unresolved past. They might be ideological extremists. Or profit-driven sharply dressed parasites. They might even be megalomaniacs. But they all thrive on weakness—especially dysfu ..."
"Despite the best efforts of the feds and corporate publishing stooges to prevent it from happening, Pulp Modern returns with a vengeance. Featuring brand new fiction by Rex Weiner, Russell Thayer, C.W. Blackwell, Albert Tucher, Matthew X. Gomez, Scott Forbes Crawford, Adam S. Furman, Adam S. House, and S. Craig Renfroe Jr. Issue four marks a return to Pulp Modern's roots with original illustrations by Ran Scott, Alfred Klosterman, Dan W ..."
"Pulp Modern returns with seven hard-hitting crime stories and four fantasy, horror, and/or science fiction tales. The second run of Pulp Modern continues to set the standard for independent, underground genre fiction journals. If you aren't reading Pulp Modern, you aren't reading..."
"Uncle B. Publications and Larque Press, LLC, present the triumphant return of PULP MODERN. Volume Two, Issue One features fiction from multiple genres, including crime, horror, and science fiction. Pulp Modern resumes its mission to publish the very best fiction from around the world. In this issue, writers from Europe, Canada, the United States, Asia, and Australia contribute a diverse selection of short stories for the most discerning ..."
Nobody's Coming Home by AlecCizak Softcover, Published 2023 by Abc Group Documentation ISBN-13: 978-1-957034-17-1, ISBN: 1-957034-17-3
"Horror from around the world is featured in the 2015 edition. New Zealand, The Netherlands, the Philippines--What is it with the Hoosier state that inspires authors from all over the world to dredge up their darkest visions to make readers tremble and shudder? Could it be the ghost towns that dot the landscape? Or do we fear the living ghosts that walk its cities, large and small, that breed and fester on dashed hope and creeping dread? ..."
Between Juarez and El Paso by AlecCizak Paperback, 114 Pages, Published 2015 by Beat To A Pulp ISBN-13: 978-1-943035-08-3, ISBN: 1-943035-08-3
"A DRIFTER DETECTIVE NOVELLA. #6 -- An old war buddy hires Jack Laramie to find his daughter, a student at Texas Western University who has gone missing without a trace. The Drifter Detective heads to El Paso to figure out what has happened to the young woman. He learns that women disappear from the university at an alarming rate. With the help of a graduate student named Sophia, Jack stumbles upon a layered conspiracy that puts him ..."
"Indiana Crime Review offers the best of established and up-and-coming writers from around the world. This wide array on the theme of crime fiction will make any reader happy. Get your crime the Indiana way!"