Paying Dues
An inviting tale, drawing the reader into the all-too-often cutthroat world of show business, featuring a plan rife with the potential for musical and professional success mixed…
Alan Swyer
Best of Across The Margin 2020, Fiction
As 2020 comes to its close, Across the Margin takes a look back at some of its most treasured moments in Fiction… Throughout this final…
The Main Man
An engrossing work of fiction that features a glamorous alternate universe, one that’s exhausting yet exhilarating, draining yet dazzling, and progressively more complicated the deeper…
Russell & Markson
“Drink, Eat, Schtupp.” A work of fiction that whisks readers into the heart of Tinseltown where a young up-and-comer learns the ropes from a veteran “rascal and a…
One of Us
Enchanted by a forgone feeling of camaraderie, and an opportunity to do research for a novel, a writer is whisked into a seedy underworld of crime.. by:…
The Diva
A work of culinary-centric fiction, where pride and self-respect clashes with, and eventually triumphs over, glamour, fortune and fame… by: Alan Swyer1 Seated in a…
Family Business
by: Alan Swyer1 A short story where the light at the end of the tunnel is the eventual fraying of the ties that bind… “If…
Isn’t That Romantic
by: Alan Swyer Sometimes even the most confounding of circumstances can be a blessing in a disguise, like when an innocuous trip to see a film leads to…
Diversity
A story that exposes a hypocrisy within the pursuit of equality… by: Alan Swyer1 “Know what I think?” Sternberg stated over lunch at a Persian restaurant one…
Real People, Real Problems
by: Alan Swyer The business of Reality TV, and what happens when you find yourself living amongst the Walking Wounded… “I‘m in a pickle,” Amato announced…