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Teenage dreams, ambitions and rebellion. Coming-of-age irony at its finest. Modernist Dreams Brutalist Nightmares is a searingly honest and brutally funny account of LG Thomson's experience of being part of the first generation to grow up in Scotland's most ambitious New Town. She was four when her family moved from their single-room tenement flat in Glasgow to a council house in Cumbernauld, a social experiment billed as The Town for Tomorrow. Told mainly in the 1970s, the book reflects upon a time when trousers were flared, sexism was the norm, and the beating of school children wasn't only condoned, it was industrialised. But with mass strike action, the three-day week, and the shift from the old imperial monetary system to decimalisation, it was also a time of great unrest and change. Set against the social landscape of the time is Thomson's personal story - the trauma of sexual abuse and coming to terms with being an outsider. Though the time and place are specific, the themes of Modernist Dreams Brutalist Nightmares are universal.

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LG Thomson is an author who specialises in compelling characters, gripping plots, and gallows humour. Thomson's novels include noir thriller Boyle's Law and pandemic thriller Each New Morn. Her writing has appeared in a wide range of anthologies and literary publications, including Wyldblood Magazine, Epoch Press, and Art North. Thomson now lives in Ullapool, a small fishing village on the northwest coast of Scotland, lying on the same latitude as Lost Cove, Alaska. To keep up to date with upcoming projects visit her website: LGThomson.com and her Twitter @LGThomson1 Cody Sexton is the founder of the literary and visual arts site, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, as well as the indie publisher Anxiety Press. He is a graphic artist and author of many novellas, including All The Sweet Prettiness of Life and Everything Came to Nothing. The collection, Anxious Nothings, is a full-color illustrated anthology of sex-themed short stories, poems, and essays. Paige Johnson is co-owner and editor in chief of Outcast Press. She is the curator of In Filth It Shall Be Found and Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work, which her short stories also feature in. Her debut poetry book, Percocet Summer, is an illustrated collection of over 35 pieces detailing themes of addiction and obsessive love. Her short story about a Miami cam girl, Ruffled Feathers, also appears in Anxious Nothings (Anxiety Press, 2022).

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