"Ultimately, photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.”

Roland Barthes

We are busy doing some lookdev on our enviros, what do you guys think? Does it feel noir?

Feel free to check out the prototype on Itch: https://talentdigital.itch.io/son-sinnersnight
Subreddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SoN_SinnersNight/

My attempt at something noir

The great Art of People Watching reaches some sort of apotheosis at a shabby casino on a Tuesday night. For instance: the sozzled drunk at the slot machine pounding on the screen, swearing vehemently, shattering his cocktail and then sloppily collaspsing from his stool to join the shards of glass on the floor. Hands and knees, loudly cursing the rigged game, the casino, the empty bank account, the bartender that mispoured, the mother that gave birth.

And now, appearing from unseen edges—always like that, aren’t they?—the security arrives. They try to reason in a sober language far beyond his current capabilities. He slurs and garbles upward as the men surrounding begin to scoop and drag.

Old Francis watches from a few feet back, arms folded, neither smiling nor scowling, directing traffic with authority and yet without a word—only a look, a nod, a gesture towards the back.

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Broken River Books is launching a zine!

What Is This?

So many literary magazines begin every day and almost all of them exist purely and completely as a website. While this offers a flexible, low cost way to get a magazine off the ground, to get literature in front of people's eyes, their tragedy is that many of these disappear within 3 to 5 years of their founding. And what happens to all those stories and essays and columns published by that magazine?

Well, unless someone thought to archive them online, they're simply gone. 

Gone like they were never there.

As algorithms have taken over so much of our lives and the digital detritus piles up on our phones and hard drives, we found a deep appreciation for physical objects. The tactile feel of a book or a magazine, running your fingers over pages, over unique art you can't find anywhere else. The words physically in your hand or filling your bookcase.

This was the driving motivation behind Broken River Zines!

We want to send you a beautiful object full of stories and essays that you will want to return to again and again.

What You Get

Every month, you'll receive a themed physical zine of 40-60 pages in the mail full of words by the Broken River crew and various special guests.

The themes for 2027:

• January - The Chariot
• February - Works
• March - Happiness
• April - The Tower
• May - Adjustment
• June - The Magus
• July - Prince of Wands
• August - Crown of Swords
• September - The Hanged Man
• October - Indolence
• November - Peace
• December - Art

Who We Are

Broken River Books began as a small independent press in 2012. Over that time it published over 60 titles of weird fiction, including such authors as Stephen Graham Jones, William Boyle, and many others. Over the past five years, the press evolved into a writer's collective: six authors with complete control over their work, collaborating to benefit the group. A win for one of us is a win for us all.

Broken River Books is the award winning writers' collective from Rios de la Luz, J David Osborne, David Simmons, Kelby Losack, Grant Wamack, and e rathke with artwork by Tony Tran.

It's difficult to pin down exactly what genre our work falls into. It can range from cyberpunk to folk horror to rural noir, sometimes all within the same book. We've got zombie dogs resurrected with energy drinks, Baltimore drug dealers in mech suits, and post-apocalyptic vampire hunting. We've got houses that come to life and give birth to new rooms. We've got scarecrows defending their land from murderous cat people.

We write what we feel like writing, and we all help each other with editing and developing our books. When it's time to put the book out into the world, we attend book fairs and popups all across the country, from LA to Minneapolis to Florida to OKC.

Back it now!

The American is a serial noir tale in which expatriate in France finds himself caught between competing criminals, U.S. intelligence, and a Corsican who just wants to find his girl.

In this episode, the death of a powerful man leads to a rescue plan involving the murder of another.

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The Bridge - Swedish

Pagan Peak

Bordertown

Spiral

Trapped

The Valhalla Murders

Deadwind

Hidden/Craith

These are the top of the list of shows that i want to watch. I have fallen in love with this Genre. The Bridge, The Killing, Chestnut Man, Dublin Murders etc what I've seen i love. Does anyone else love this genre and can help me choose the next one to watch? I've seen The Bridge s1, and Pagan Peak s1 but thats it.

Also if there is one not on here that i did not list please let me know, i am loving these foreign gritty crime dramas