Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! Series

Smile, Hon, You're in Flagrante! 80 pages $5 Bondage, embarrassment and accident-induced impotence are but a handful of the sexual situations that arise in Smile, Hon, You’re in Flagrante!, the latest theme issue in the award-winning Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! series published by Eight-Stone Press. In this issue, JENNA STROKER gives the neighbors a show; RAFAEL ALVAREZ checks into Room 829; ANAL ROBERTS gets Hammerjacked; MISSY KATZ gives foot; and LOLITA HONEYBUSH enjoys a mid-coitus siesta, plus a whole lot more.

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #12 60 pages $3 Old bones and family secrets are but a few items unearthed in Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! No. 12. In this issue, Siobhan Fitzpatrick fears only what lurks in the “urban terrarium” parked out front; Jeannie Hegarty clears her calendar for a drug bust next door; Ben Shaberman fancies himself a 2A contender; fate deals Rahne Alexander a flush; and Lisa Singer decides Baltimore is as far south as she's willing to work, plus a whole lot more.

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #11 60 pages $3 In this issue, SIOBHÁN FITZPATRICK plants petunias in Pigtown; LISA SINGER's anger management reserves the right to refuse service; SOMMER MARSDEN leads the way into temptation; CARYN COYLE turns heads; and PIPPY ROCKWELL considers the sociopolitical ramifications of sex-toy selection, plus a whole lot more. Read more... Order now!

Intersections 56 pages $3 Take a freewheeling ride through Charm City in the transit-themed Intersections. In this issue, Rosalia Scalia hunts Ducks in Little Italy; Ben A. Shaberman runs for his life; Joe Higler eludes certain death at the bus stop; J. Gavin Heck goes to Hell; and China Martens looks for the light at the end of the tunnel, plus a whole lot more. Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #10 60 pages $3 Rented firearms, bocce balls and stolen meat are but a few of the chunks that bob to the surface of Charm City's stew. In this issue, Siobhan Fitzpatrick chases rats (as well as anything else that might be lurking in the cracks of Pigtown); J. Gavin Heck talks a friend down from the proverbial ledge; Jen Michalski wonders just who this "Chicken Bones" might be; Thomas Paul screens a revival of long-gone movie houses and Lisa D. Singer aims for center mass, plus a whole lot more. Read more... Order now!

Skin Deep 60 pages (color centerfold) $3 Eight-Stone Press gets under the skin of two dozen area contributors with SKIN DEEP, profiling their tattoos and the stories behind them. The staff of the Baltimore Tattoo Museum helps round out the issue, offering their own behind-the-needle perspectives. Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #9 48 pages $3 In this issue, Sommer Marsden looks at love and loss on Harford Road through neon-colored glasses, Benn Ray (The Mobtown Shank) puts another dime in "Rose's Juke Box", Davida Gypsy Breier laments the demise of the North Point Flea Market and ESP Editor William P. Tandy talks with Jennifer Bodine, daughter of iconic Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine and proprietor of www.AAubreyBodine.com. Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #8.75 Criminally Yours 48 pages $3 Eight-Stone Press (ESP) teams with Baltimore's free weekly e-zine, THE MOBTOWN SHANK, to bring you CRIMINALLY YOURS, featuring the "best" crime-related encounters from 29 area contributors, guilty and otherwise . . . Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #8.5 SCARS! 48 pages $3 In SHOW ME YOURS SHOW YOU MINE - the third special theme issue in the increasingly popular SMILE, HON, YOU'RE IN BALTIMORE! series from Eight-Stone Press (ESP) - 16 area writers, photographers and other artists share the experiences that have left them forever scarred in body and mind. Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #8 48 pages $3 Towson attorney Harris “Bud” George sicks “The Flea” on unsuspecting adulterers, Hungover Gourmet Dan Taylor struggles to hold his own lunch down at Phillips Seafood Crabcake Eating Championship, and ESP Editor William P. Tandy interviews local filmmakers Ryan and Tracey Graham in the wake of their feature-length debut, Livelihood, plus a whole lot more. Read more... Order now!

Infestation! (Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #7.75) 48 pages $3 A sometimes unsavory collection of tales of Charm City's unsung vermin. For Infestation! - the second-ever "theme" issue of ESP's increasingly popular Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! series - ESP Editor William P. Tandy compiled the stories, poetry, photography and other artwork of 18 regional contributors, each inspired by their own encounters with Rattus norvegicus. Read more... Order now!

Giving Up the Ghost (Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #7.5) 36 pages $2 Don’t miss Giving Up the Ghost, a special collection of otherwordly encounters from Baltimore and (the great) beyond. Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #7 56 pages $3 Poet Ryan McElroy (Charm City Art Space) puts his back to the pavement, Amy Lynwander (Fell’s Point Ghost Tours) finds that not all snakes live in the grass, Benn Ray (Atomic Books) questions Republican hunger for junkie-meat, George Martsoukos (Baltimore Gamers Alliance) insists that he can quit any time he wants to and Plan 9 from Outer Space star Conrad Brooks continues to make movies any way he can, plus a whole lot more. Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #6 56 pages $3 Tracy Pickle throws rocks down a duckpin alley near you, Dan Taylor (The Hungover Gourmet) wants you to want Cheap Trick (and the Orioles) for all the right reasons, Michel E. Schuster haunts the Enchanted Forest, Susan Beverly visits D.C. in verse (as only a native Baltimorean can), and Benn Ray (Atomic Books) wonders if it’s all worth the wait in line, plus a whole lot more. Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #5 56 pages $3 In this fifth installment of the zine Baltimore City Paper named “Best of Baltimore, 2004,” Benn Ray (Atomic Books) takes issue with a would-be assailant, Dan Taylor (The Hungover Gourmet) squints at area drive-ins by the dashboard light, and Davida Gypsy Breier (Xerography Debt) follows the Paddy’s Day Parade to the end of the rainbow, plus a whole lot more. Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #4 56 pages $3 Follow Charm City from monumental heights to its deep-fried depths, get the dish on local eateries, wax poetic on the merits of the pre-work toke, and just see if Homicide’s chalk outlines really come out in this fourth issue. Contributors include Benn Ray (Atomic Books), Dan Taylor (The Hungover Gourmet), Blair Ewing (And to the Republic) and Davida Gypsy Breier (Xerography Debt) Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #3 56 pages $3 Indie booksellers, ex-Coast Guards and vodka-consoled English teachers help round out the cast of contributors for the zine The Johns Hopkins News-Letter calls “the literary equivalent of the Sizzler All-U-Can-Eat buffet . . .” Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #2 52 pages $3 “Man been in prison 20, 30 years, come back to downtown Baltimore - he’d be los’.” Spend enough time in this town and you’ll never use hotel ice again. Read more... Order now!

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! #1 60 pages $3 The one that started it all. A look at life, liquor and libidinous siblings in Charm City. Read more... Order now!

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