Protectors 2: Heroes

by Andrew Vachss, Joyce Carol Oates, Hilary Davidson, Joelle Charbonneau, Reed Farrel Coleman

Synopsis

55 Stories to benefit Protect, the political lobby of the National Association to Protect Children, whose victories include the Circle of Trust act and the HERO Corps, which hires wounded veterans to assist law enforcement in hunting online predators. 

Contributors include Andrew Vachss, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison®, David Morrell, Laird Barron, Linda Rodriguez, Charles de Lint, Hilary Davidson, Joe R. Lansdale, Joelle Charbonneau, Reed Farrel Coleman, SJ Rozan, and Alison Arngrim. 600 pages of fiction of all genres, poems and art, essays and memoirs, to fund one cause: to protect children from abuse and exploitation of all kinds.  

Table of Contents: 
When!? by Linda Sarah 
The Questions by Alison Arngrim 
City Water by Allison Glasgow 
Black and White and Red All Over by David Morrell 
Silvia Reyes by P.J. Ward 
Plan B by Andrew Vachss 
Gatekeeper by Richard Prosch 
The Night Watch by Susan Schorn 
One Night in Brownsville by Gary Phillips 
Silverfish by S.J. Rozan 
Parental Guidance by Scott Adlerberg 
Superhero, With Crooked Nails by Rachael Acks 
Angel by Terrence McCauley 
Mr. Nance by Linda Rodriguez 
Something I Said by Bracken MacLeod 
El Puente by Rios de la Luz 
Mesquite by Graham Wynd 
Level 5 by C.R. Jahn 
On the Road to La Grange by Karina Cooper 
Reprisals: Enmity by John A. Curley 
The Whistler in the Graveyard by Chad Eagleton (illustration by Dyer Wilk) 
Solar Highway by S.A. Solomon 
Jibber Jabber by Reed Farrel Coleman 
Doll: A Poem by Jyl Anais Ion (illustrations by Jyl Anais Ion) 
Doggone Justice by Joe R. Lansdale 
The Occurrence of the Black Mirror by Teel James Glenn 
Sister Cecilia by Hilary Davidson 
Croatoan by Harlan Ellison® 
Little Howl on the Prairie by Thomas Pluck 
Things Held Dear by Neliza Drew 
49 Foot Woman Straps It On by Laird Barron 
Moon Over the Midwest by Elizabeth Amber Love 
Sixth Floor by Albert Tucher 
Adamsville by Clare Toohey 
Point of View by Will Graham 
High Meadow Storm by Wayne Dundee 
Out of Context by Joelle Charbonneau 
Lone by Alex Segura (illustrations by Dennis Calero) 
Love and Valour on ‘the Victorian Titanic’ by Gill Hoffs 
Just Pretend by Martyn Waites 
Freak by Charles de Lint 
The New Heroes of the Old Fairgrounds by K.L. Pereira 
When the Hammer Comes Down by Josh Stallings 
Stretching Fifteen by Angel Luis Colón 
Bounty by Jerry Bloomfield 
Light-Bringer by Laura K. Curtis 
Hercules and the Spawn of the Titans by Michael A. Black 
How to Paint Your Dragon by Andrew D’Apice 
Don’t Fear the Ripper by Holly West Two Views by Tim Daly 
A Hundred Pearls by Errick Nunnally 
Snapshots by Christopher Irvin 
Deceit by Joyce Carol Oates 
The Perfect Weapon by Zak Mucha 
An Open Letter to the Children of the Secret by Dionysios Dionou 
Behavior is Truth by Gwyndyn T. Alexander 
Pigeons for Protect! by Linda Sarah 

Release date: August 28, 2015

Publisher: Goombah Gumbo Press

Print pages: 713