It begins:
“One of the bright spots of small press publishing during the decade of the 2020s has been Roadside Press and its consistently impressive offerings. While in the Introduction to Roadside Assistance the editors insist that the anthology is not meant as a “best of” or “greatest hits” collection, the prose and poetry pieces included in the volume are all gems, fifteen of them prose, alongside thirty-three poets. From Francine Witte’s flash fiction tour de force, Radio Water to Jennifer Juneau’s amazing Maze, a collection of twelve intriguingly linked and enigmatic short stories; from Catfish McDaris’ story “If This Is Love, I’m Not Happy” (featured in the book Prying and written in collaboration with Charles Bukowski and Jack Micheline) to poetry excerpts from Alan Catlin’s Another Saturday Night in Jukebox Hell, Richard Vargas’ Screw City Poems and George Wallace’s Resurrection Song: these pieces are all hits as far as I’m concerned.”
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