James Jenkins
@jamesjenkins.bsky.social
Writer gritty noir. Author of “Parochial Pigs”@thealienbuddha and “Sun Bleached Scarecrows” @asliceofanxiety. Feature Editor @punk_magazine Co-Editor @urbanpigspress@bsky.social
Urban Pigs Press are open for short stories and poetry
We’re Wide Open!
Call for short stories and poetry – now open! Urban Pigs Press have once again searched the neighborouring farms for a guest Editor to join us at the trough. This time we’ve been lucky …
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February 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Urban Pigs Press are open for short stories and poetry
3 years old! Happy birthday to my first novel - Parochial Pigs!
Much has happened since that exciting day including 2 sequels and a major facelift.
Up next - Social Traffic. A fuck you to those with power who use it for their own gain. You’ll know when you read it 😉
Thank you for all the support❤️
Much has happened since that exciting day including 2 sequels and a major facelift.
Up next - Social Traffic. A fuck you to those with power who use it for their own gain. You’ll know when you read it 😉
Thank you for all the support❤️
January 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
3 years old! Happy birthday to my first novel - Parochial Pigs!
Much has happened since that exciting day including 2 sequels and a major facelift.
Up next - Social Traffic. A fuck you to those with power who use it for their own gain. You’ll know when you read it 😉
Thank you for all the support❤️
Much has happened since that exciting day including 2 sequels and a major facelift.
Up next - Social Traffic. A fuck you to those with power who use it for their own gain. You’ll know when you read it 😉
Thank you for all the support❤️
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Urban Pigs Press reviews...
And it's a bloody good one!
Check out our thoughts on "All the Sweet Prettiness of Life" by Cody Sexton
And it's a bloody good one!
Check out our thoughts on "All the Sweet Prettiness of Life" by Cody Sexton
Urban Pigs Press reviews…
All the Sweet Prettiness of Life by Cody Sexton The past is never as dead as it looks. Colin's review I whizzed through this graphic short story from the mind of Cody sexton, in about 40 minutes. A ve...
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February 21, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Urban Pigs Press reviews...
And it's a bloody good one!
Check out our thoughts on "All the Sweet Prettiness of Life" by Cody Sexton
And it's a bloody good one!
Check out our thoughts on "All the Sweet Prettiness of Life" by Cody Sexton
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Closing us out for our Life in Dirt call. Out of Sight. Out of Mind - @MatGost
It's been an absolute privilege to read and publish the brilliant stories this past month or so. A big thank you to each and everyone who has trusted us with their work.
It's been an absolute privilege to read and publish the brilliant stories this past month or so. A big thank you to each and everyone who has trusted us with their work.
Out of Sight. Out of Mind – Mathew Gostelow
“You'll find it easier if you don't think about them. Forget they're here.” * The apartment shone bright white. Smooth, curved lines. Pristine surfaces. Soothing lights. Safe. Spacious. Anything w...
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December 17, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Closing us out for our Life in Dirt call. Out of Sight. Out of Mind - @MatGost
It's been an absolute privilege to read and publish the brilliant stories this past month or so. A big thank you to each and everyone who has trusted us with their work.
It's been an absolute privilege to read and publish the brilliant stories this past month or so. A big thank you to each and everyone who has trusted us with their work.
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Friday Fiction!
We're coming to the end of our Life in Dirt window. I feel it's only fitting to release this filthy stomach churner, compliments of @ConorD_owling
We're coming to the end of our Life in Dirt window. I feel it's only fitting to release this filthy stomach churner, compliments of @ConorD_owling
Take Out – Conor Dowling
Sticky tiles clutched my soles. Nobody should have to stay here longer than five minutes. But how was it fast food if they took this long? What was even the point beyond ten minutes? The impulse was d...
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December 15, 2023 at 6:17 PM
Friday Fiction!
We're coming to the end of our Life in Dirt window. I feel it's only fitting to release this filthy stomach churner, compliments of @ConorD_owling
We're coming to the end of our Life in Dirt window. I feel it's only fitting to release this filthy stomach churner, compliments of @ConorD_owling
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Go With God by Joel Nedecky for our Life in Dirt call! "My brain shivered with pleasure as the drug seeped into my blood and life made sense, like each event was meant to be"
@JoelNedecky
@JoelNedecky
Go With God – Joel Nedecky
Grandpa asked me to sit with him on the front porch. He fingered a dip out of the tin and stuffed it in his lower lip. The sun flared in the dark blue sky as a hawk soared overhead. It was too hot, an...
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December 13, 2023 at 7:15 PM
Go With God by Joel Nedecky for our Life in Dirt call! "My brain shivered with pleasure as the drug seeped into my blood and life made sense, like each event was meant to be"
@JoelNedecky
@JoelNedecky
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Cover reveal!
We're really digging this banging art work from Jo Andrews (Mojo Art)
Release date coming soon!
We're really digging this banging art work from Jo Andrews (Mojo Art)
Release date coming soon!
February 15, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Cover reveal!
We're really digging this banging art work from Jo Andrews (Mojo Art)
Release date coming soon!
We're really digging this banging art work from Jo Andrews (Mojo Art)
Release date coming soon!
Great cause and a physical place for your writing!
Submit to your cravings! - The Hunger Anthology in aid of FIND - Helping families in need.
Send us your darkest weirdest stories for our first ever charity anthology. We are seeking Crime, Horror, Gritty realism and more.
For more information see below.
Send us your darkest weirdest stories for our first ever charity anthology. We are seeking Crime, Horror, Gritty realism and more.
For more information see below.
Submit to your cravings! – The Hunger Anthology
Urban Pigs Press is still open for submissions for our first ever charity anthology. We have had some great stories coming through already but we want you to make our job even harder by sending us mor...
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January 4, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Great cause and a physical place for your writing!
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Submission time! Our theme for November is LIFE IN DIRT! All the information you need is in the link provided, looking forward to reading your pieces! Crime, horror and gritty realism shorts please, up to 2,500 words to celebrate our first book release!
Submissions
Urban Pigs Press is now open for submissions in short and flash fiction ranging from 500 words to 2500 max. To celebrate our first book release we are looking for stories relating to the above call "L...
urbanpigspress.co.uk
November 9, 2023 at 7:52 PM
Submission time! Our theme for November is LIFE IN DIRT! All the information you need is in the link provided, looking forward to reading your pieces! Crime, horror and gritty realism shorts please, up to 2,500 words to celebrate our first book release!
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Our first offering for the "Life in Dirt" call. It's a bloody good one from
@terryholland.bsky.social
“Go the fuck home, have a beer, forget this whole thing ever happened.”
@terryholland.bsky.social
“Go the fuck home, have a beer, forget this whole thing ever happened.”
The Knowledge – Terry Holland
‘The Instructor’ sizes me up: big, sallow face incongruous behind a pair of bright blue eyes that are grotesquely enlarged by the thick lenses of a pair of heavy framed spectacles. Twin TV screens...
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November 17, 2023 at 1:04 PM
Our first offering for the "Life in Dirt" call. It's a bloody good one from
@terryholland.bsky.social
“Go the fuck home, have a beer, forget this whole thing ever happened.”
@terryholland.bsky.social
“Go the fuck home, have a beer, forget this whole thing ever happened.”
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This filthy tale is a perfect fit for our LIFE IN DIRT call!
Enjoy some Monday reading from @EdHagelstein
"I thought I was doing well by calling him the exterminator. Everyone else called him the bug man."
Prim and Proper - Edward Hagelstein
Enjoy some Monday reading from @EdHagelstein
"I thought I was doing well by calling him the exterminator. Everyone else called him the bug man."
Prim and Proper - Edward Hagelstein
Prim and Proper – Edward Hagelstein
The arrangement regarding domestic chores had always been this: I took care of the outside and my wife, fondly known as Cheeky by most, was responsible for the inside. And that worked for years, until...
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November 27, 2023 at 6:38 PM
This filthy tale is a perfect fit for our LIFE IN DIRT call!
Enjoy some Monday reading from @EdHagelstein
"I thought I was doing well by calling him the exterminator. Everyone else called him the bug man."
Prim and Proper - Edward Hagelstein
Enjoy some Monday reading from @EdHagelstein
"I thought I was doing well by calling him the exterminator. Everyone else called him the bug man."
Prim and Proper - Edward Hagelstein
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Brand new Friday fiction from @davidcook.bsky.social
Thank you so much for sharing this one with us David! Everyone knows you don't mess with a swan.
Enjoy 👇
Thank you so much for sharing this one with us David! Everyone knows you don't mess with a swan.
Enjoy 👇
Squadron – David Cook
Samuel’s television replayed the shaky mobile phone footage that had, by now, been seen across the world. It showed a sunny part of the English countryside, earlier that day. A young man, later iden...
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December 1, 2023 at 7:17 PM
Brand new Friday fiction from @davidcook.bsky.social
Thank you so much for sharing this one with us David! Everyone knows you don't mess with a swan.
Enjoy 👇
Thank you so much for sharing this one with us David! Everyone knows you don't mess with a swan.
Enjoy 👇
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How's this for a bit of Monday fiction for ya?
"An edgelord editor is the first to blow, a string of come cast over the muffin like a mucus lasso"
This is definitely a bit of us right here, thanks @doughboywrites
"An edgelord editor is the first to blow, a string of come cast over the muffin like a mucus lasso"
This is definitely a bit of us right here, thanks @doughboywrites
Tastemakers – Jon Doughboy
The writer crouches in a dumpster in a nondescript alley in Brooklyn, hunkering beneath a hot and sticky and seeping mound of used condoms, eggshells, grapefruit rinds, syringes, coffee filters full o...
urbanpigspress.co.uk
December 4, 2023 at 6:14 PM
How's this for a bit of Monday fiction for ya?
"An edgelord editor is the first to blow, a string of come cast over the muffin like a mucus lasso"
This is definitely a bit of us right here, thanks @doughboywrites
"An edgelord editor is the first to blow, a string of come cast over the muffin like a mucus lasso"
This is definitely a bit of us right here, thanks @doughboywrites
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Ha, cool reviews for "Family and Other Ailments" are coming in. Thank you @jamesjenkins.bsky.social ! - books2read.com/u/3Lx0v5
October 28, 2023 at 8:26 PM
Ha, cool reviews for "Family and Other Ailments" are coming in. Thank you @jamesjenkins.bsky.social ! - books2read.com/u/3Lx0v5
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Today's story of madness and mayhem comes from the poetic
László Aranyi published in both translated English and it's original Hungarian. Enjoy!
László Aranyi published in both translated English and it's original Hungarian. Enjoy!
Those In Hiding Are About To Rise – Laszlo Aranyi
The following story might reflect badly on me again. One of my "misdeeds" from my early childhood might defend me though. In my hometown, a major construction project began, and the long out of ...
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October 24, 2023 at 5:55 PM
Today's story of madness and mayhem comes from the poetic
László Aranyi published in both translated English and it's original Hungarian. Enjoy!
László Aranyi published in both translated English and it's original Hungarian. Enjoy!
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Happy Sunday people! Help yourself to a side of @russelthayer10.bsky.social with your roast dinner!
Par For The Course – Russell Thayer
Gunselle smashed a lofty drive off the ninth tee at Harding Park, brown hair bouncing in sunshine as she posed for the trailing foursome. An ear splitting wolf-whistle escaped a birdbrain’s lips. Sh...
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October 22, 2023 at 4:42 PM
Happy Sunday people! Help yourself to a side of @russelthayer10.bsky.social with your roast dinner!
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Now available from Amazon and Kindle Unlimited - Life in Dirt!
My short story collection of filthy realism, gritty realism and dark humour.
Also the first release from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social
My short story collection of filthy realism, gritty realism and dark humour.
Also the first release from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social
Life in Dirt: Stories: Amazon.co.uk: Jenkins, James, Press, Urban Pigs: 9798862490855: Books
Buy Life in Dirt: Stories by Jenkins, James, Press, Urban Pigs from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.
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October 18, 2023 at 5:28 PM
Now available from Amazon and Kindle Unlimited - Life in Dirt!
My short story collection of filthy realism, gritty realism and dark humour.
Also the first release from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social
My short story collection of filthy realism, gritty realism and dark humour.
Also the first release from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social
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Jenks' new book of short stories out now! Available on Kindle and can buy physical copies on Amazon! They are as dark and compelling.
Grab your copy of Life in Dirt!
A gritty and compelling collection of stories from @JamesCJenkins4
Now available for free to Kindle Unlimited customers and £6.99 in paperback from Amazon.
Happy Sunday #booklovers #noir
A gritty and compelling collection of stories from @JamesCJenkins4
Now available for free to Kindle Unlimited customers and £6.99 in paperback from Amazon.
Happy Sunday #booklovers #noir
Amazon.co.uk
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October 15, 2023 at 9:22 AM
Jenks' new book of short stories out now! Available on Kindle and can buy physical copies on Amazon! They are as dark and compelling.
Grab your copy of Life in Dirt!
A gritty and compelling collection of stories from @JamesCJenkins4
Now available for free to Kindle Unlimited customers and £6.99 in paperback from Amazon.
Happy Sunday #booklovers #noir
A gritty and compelling collection of stories from @JamesCJenkins4
Now available for free to Kindle Unlimited customers and £6.99 in paperback from Amazon.
Happy Sunday #booklovers #noir
Amazon.co.uk
amzn.eu
October 15, 2023 at 9:13 AM
Grab your copy of Life in Dirt!
A gritty and compelling collection of stories from @JamesCJenkins4
Now available for free to Kindle Unlimited customers and £6.99 in paperback from Amazon.
Happy Sunday #booklovers #noir
A gritty and compelling collection of stories from @JamesCJenkins4
Now available for free to Kindle Unlimited customers and £6.99 in paperback from Amazon.
Happy Sunday #booklovers #noir
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HAPPY MONDAY FICTION FANS!!!
Check out this blinder of a short story from Leigh Brady!
- She Comes in The Rain
Please give Leigh some love and please don't forget to subscribe to urbanpigspress.co.uk
Check out this blinder of a short story from Leigh Brady!
- She Comes in The Rain
Please give Leigh some love and please don't forget to subscribe to urbanpigspress.co.uk
She Comes In With The Rain – Leigh Brady
The doors swiftly shutter behind me as I thank the driver and shuffle my way down the bustling bus to find an empty seat. The bus smells stale and wet as the rain pelts the roof; the metal clank dul...
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October 9, 2023 at 5:44 PM
HAPPY MONDAY FICTION FANS!!!
Check out this blinder of a short story from Leigh Brady!
- She Comes in The Rain
Please give Leigh some love and please don't forget to subscribe to urbanpigspress.co.uk
Check out this blinder of a short story from Leigh Brady!
- She Comes in The Rain
Please give Leigh some love and please don't forget to subscribe to urbanpigspress.co.uk
Coming very soon from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social - My short story collection - Life in Dirt!
I can not wait 🔥
I can not wait 🔥
October 3, 2023 at 7:52 AM
Coming very soon from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social - My short story collection - Life in Dirt!
I can not wait 🔥
I can not wait 🔥
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First of our short fiction for the - Terror in Suburbia - call. It's a damn good one too! Massive thank you to @phantomsspleen.bsky.social for sharing this one with us.
Pigeon – Syreeta Muir
She’s in bed, slowing herself down to one breath per five Mississippi’s. Wants to make the room disappear/reappear/disappear behind her closed eyelids, so it looks just like dusk through a black s...
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October 1, 2023 at 4:31 PM
First of our short fiction for the - Terror in Suburbia - call. It's a damn good one too! Massive thank you to @phantomsspleen.bsky.social for sharing this one with us.
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Dangerous Dames: Women Who Write Horror tinyurl.com/yahwwdfm #AuthorsOfBluesky #BookBoost #HorrorCommunity #WiHM #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #WritersLift #WomenInHorror
Dangerous Dames: Women Who Write Horror
I started writing seriously in high school after reading several of Stephen King’s novels; I got hooked on Horror at the tender age of…
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September 19, 2023 at 3:58 PM
Dangerous Dames: Women Who Write Horror tinyurl.com/yahwwdfm #AuthorsOfBluesky #BookBoost #HorrorCommunity #WiHM #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #WritersLift #WomenInHorror
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Book sales have been a little slow lately so I've started my own delivery service!
However, if you want a copy of Parochial Pigs or Sun Bleached Scarecrows this side of Christmas then you're probably better off picking them up from:
amzn.eu/d/97KEgsb
amzn.eu/d/ 5×Qadw8
However, if you want a copy of Parochial Pigs or Sun Bleached Scarecrows this side of Christmas then you're probably better off picking them up from:
amzn.eu/d/97KEgsb
amzn.eu/d/ 5×Qadw8
September 12, 2023 at 12:13 PM
Book sales have been a little slow lately so I've started my own delivery service!
However, if you want a copy of Parochial Pigs or Sun Bleached Scarecrows this side of Christmas then you're probably better off picking them up from:
amzn.eu/d/97KEgsb
amzn.eu/d/ 5×Qadw8
However, if you want a copy of Parochial Pigs or Sun Bleached Scarecrows this side of Christmas then you're probably better off picking them up from:
amzn.eu/d/97KEgsb
amzn.eu/d/ 5×Qadw8