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The Straw Men by Tony R. Cox   Chapter 1 The lump of coal hurtled towards Simon Jardine car’s windscreen with the force of a missile. The impact shattered the glass into the pattern of a crazy star and he instinctively clamped his eyes tightly shut. He’d been following the dirty old coal lorry since it had pulled out in front of him a mile back. It shouldn’t be allowed on the road, he muttered. It was piled high with sacks of coal. One, balanced on top and unstable, was rocking from side to side like a candle flame in...

As we all know, times are tough all over at the moment. Indie publishers like Fahrenheit are taking a particular battering, we’ve sadly seen many of our fellow Indies being forced to close down due to the triple whammy of increasing costs, decreasing sales and the massive drop-off in social media engagement & effectiveness over the last 6 months (cheers Elon). We’ve been scratching our heads about things we could do to help us increase sales and somehow help out our cash-squeezed readers at the same. We realised quite quickly that our biggest strength was you lot - our loyal...

Rope & Canvas by DDC Morgan ONE When the drunk took liberties with the barmaid, Calloway broke his nose. He should have lost his job. But the barmaid was a friend of Trudi Trauber and Trudi had a lot of influence at the arena. The drunk was lucky. If Trudi had got to him first, a broken nose would have been the least of his worries. Calloway tossed the drunk a beer towel to wipe the blood from his face. Then he yanked him by the collar of his threadbare jacket and dragged him down to the foyer and out...

Disorderly women have always been my tribe, ever since I was a teenager at the back of the school bus, part of a gang of girls laughing their faces off, pulling faces and much worse at lorry drivers through the window. I love them - the women who ask why, and why not, and do what they want, and not what they're supposed to do. The witches, the hags, the divas, the cackling crones. The rebels. The gobby ones. The ones who burn bright because they're too much, and are too loud, and go too far, and either don't want...

Fahrenheit Press stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people and condemns Russia's unprovoked and unjustified invasion of the independent nation of Ukraine, in violation of international law. We recognise that Ukraine is a sovereign, independent state with the right to self determination. We condemn the Russian Federation’s incursion into sovereign Ukrainian territory in violation of international law and their treaty obligations under the Minsk Protocol of 2014. We urge the Russian President, Vladimir Putin to think again and pull back his forces, to desist from a full scale invasion of Ukraine, and withdraw his unilateral and unjustified recognition of the so...