By morning, the mistral had died down completely. Transportation Press will soon be announcing our publishing program for 2018-2019. In the meantime, we are posting anonymous quotes from novels we like. The first person to pick the novel will receive a free copy of one of our publications. Drop us a line.

Inside The Mountain. The old house is more neglected than I’d imagined, veranda hanging off the front, stairs falling away with rot. I use a knee to test the wood and then pull myself up. No doorknob so I push, palm flat on the peeling paint. The door opens enough to get a shoulder in … Continue reading Anonymous Manuscript Extract #11

It was some time since I had seen him? Before he had returned to Fez. Before he left Monsieur Jones. Before I left my Missus. Before the collapse. Before the dole queues. Before the misery of the crowded bars. Transportation Press will soon be announcing our publishing program for 2018-2019. In the meantime, we are … Continue reading Anonymous Manuscript Extract #12

He left the room and the gallery phase-shifted into a coloured blur. He couldn’t find Fiona. Time slowed down and rushed past him as he looked around the vast gallery space, trying to spot her, until at last he decided to look outside and the rain began. Disparate thick drops at first, the earthy petrichor … Continue reading Anonymous Manuscript Extract #10

The sky has lifted at least thirty feet. I sat there, not moving. The shock must have cracked the pavement, my right hand fumbled in the rubble. As I breathed, the silence stilled the explosion of stars whose sparks still cracked in my head.   Transportation Press will soon be announcing our publishing program for … Continue reading Anonymous Manuscript Extract #9

I ran on a few more steps until I was below a streetlamp and stopped, panting and sweating. The yellow pouring forth from its ancient bulb was my arena, a dozen feet across.  Hell hath no limits, nor is it circumscribed, but I was yet alive and happy to constrain myself to set bounds. Beyond … Continue reading Anonymous Manuscript Extract #8