SICK is a collection of thirty-five poems by John Patrick Flannery, written across a decade in Los Angeles and beyond.They are poems about hating your job and loving the night. About relationships that start hot and end cold. About the criminal life and what it costs. About getting older without getting wiser, and about finding something worth smiling at anyway.The voice is direct, often profane, and always honest. These are not poems about poetry. They are poems a...

These poems don't ask for your sympathy. They don't explain themselves. They were written the way the guy who wrote them lived — fast, loud, honest, and without much regard for what anyone thought.Thirty-four poems across thirty years, moving from the streets of Los Angeles through the long grind of getting older and the slow, strange business of still being alive when you half-expected not to be. Dark comedy, raw feeling, and the occasional moment of something that looks almost li...

Freakville is a warm, witty, and quietly moving novel narrated by Frank Tosca, a Wisconsin-born doctor living a life that never quite fit. When a routine government letter reveals he has a daughter named Ophelia — born to a wife who vanished without explanation the night before his medical school graduation — Frank becomes obsessed with finding her. The address on the letter leads him to an unlikely place: a walled community in rural Arkansas that serves as a retirement ho...

Peter and Joey have spent their whole lives together—same streets, same bars, same bad decisions. When a chance encounter outside the Five Point leads to the heist of a lifetime, these two small-time criminals find themselves sitting on a storage locker full of pharmaceutical gold and more cash than they ever imagined.But nothing comes easy. A dead accomplice leads the police straight to their door. Two gangsters with designs on their stash turn a routine evening into something nei...