About Jennifer Cie: Jennifer
Cie is a Tennessee native who loves taking aimless road trips, taste testing
whiskey and low grade tequila—for science, and writing about social issues in
everyday life. Self-proclaimed writer of “two cups of morning coffee” length
books, Cie is the author of the fictional work Memphis Rain, creative
non-fiction memoir Burn It, and the upcoming collection of short stories
entitled Down On The Other Street.
When she is not getting lost driving across
state lines, you can find her rambling about book formatting, poor life
decisions, and everything in between on her blog: www.journeytopaperback.com.
Find Jennifer Cie here:
Twitter: @JenniferCie1
Down on the Other Street
Cover Artist: Najla Qambers
Publisher: Self-published
We've
got blurbage: Long winded, unemployed, and timid, on the first
date Brendan Bloom is already in love. Comfortably arched over his body, Ryan
contemplates murder. Cold, necklace gleaming against the pale tint of her
collarbone, the passenger could have mercy. Not a little black book, but a
faded love letter out from under the sheets. Some romances ignite on sight,
others flare at the base of waterless tubs soaked in agitation. Rooted in the
South, this collection of short stories delivers five electric confessions of
love, sexuality, and identity across time.
And a
sneak peek: ““You’re not asking someone studied—you know? I
guess the rough kind of good. Like when you floss your teeth till your gums bleed.
Hurts a bit, but the taste and feel are good to you.”
My first “real” talk came from you in 1992. I
was fourteen sitting on the edge of my father’s leather recliner watching you
cut the edges off a peanut butter sandwich. You didn’t have any tattoos back
then. You had on this red sweater with blue stripes swishing through it. That
pesky string of acne was still running down your right cheek when you offered
me half of the sandwich.
“Anna. Why do you want to know about sex—from
me?”
I wanted to tell you that the walls in my house
had grown thin. Even with the stretches of screeching cars passing by and
gargled whispers from the Mississippi River outside, I could hear everything
tiptoeing inside. The high pitched turned guttural shrieks the women in my brother’s
magazines evoked. The sound of the calluses on his hands attacking flesh like
rubberized sandpaper; then, the wheezing attack followed by a hushed “guuu-ah”
and tissues sopping up warm ooze. The late-night lullaby to my summers had
changed, and I wanted to know the words.” –Excerpt from Intellectuals Are Fools
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Tour Date: 7/29/14
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