Pigsville
Lake City has a lot of heavy weather, and it’s not just in the air. Eduardo “Vince” Negron has a regular table at a bar-restaurant in Pigsville called El Perro Negro, from where he runs El Manojo, a motley assortment of hoodlums. Negron is minor league, but across town former gangster gone legit Lloyd Frend is thinking big: perhaps he will run for office one day; he will certainly make a heap more dough. Men will be caught in the crossfire between Negron and Frend as they battle for territory, not least Walt Hargrove, an appliance store salesman drawn to El Manojo by curiosity and the desire to make an extra buck or two. Told with a tongue in various cheeks, Pigsville is a gripping tale full of sex, drugs, and violence and not a little black humour.
Mark Fishman's short stories have been published in the following literary magazines: Carolina Quarterly, the Black Warrior Review, Canvass, the Mississippi Review, the Chicago Review, Insomnia, Frank (Paris), Purple Fiction (Paris), The Literary Review; his novels, The Magic Dogs of San Vicente, No. 22 Pleasure City, and Thirteen Heavens, are published by Guernica Editions. A short story, “Songwad Road,” received first prize for fiction in Glimmer Train, and appeared in issue 100 in August 2017. Short Story Takes 1st Prize in Glimmer Train. A short story submission to Glimmer Train made the Top 25 list in the Final Fiction Open January/February 2019.
