MEG POKRASS. POUNDS ACROSS AMERICA - 1990. WIGLEAF

MEG POKRASS

POUNDS ACROSS AMERICA - 1990

WIGLEAF

http://wigleaf.com/200811pounds.htm

DOGS: WET AND DRY

From humorous to heartfelt to quirky - an anthology of short short stories about DOGS.

Foreword by Rick Bass, Introduction by Bruce Holland Rogers.

Call for submissions:

1000 words or fewer flash fiction pieces - Dogs: Wet & Dry - A Collection of Canine Flash Fiction.

These stories will run from humorous to heartfelt to quirky. The topic range is open: from dog rescue, training, and adoption to companionship, communication, and behavior.

Accepted pieces will receive $50 when the book is published, plus one copy of the anthology.
Send submissions (please, no profanity or animal abuse) in the body of the e-mail along with a short bio (100 words or less) in third person to: submissions@dogswetanddry.com

Submission period - 9/15/2008-12/1/2008
Deadline: 12/1/2008

Check out the new Dogs: Wet & Dry blog:

http://dogswetanddry.blogspot.com/

NICK ANTOSCA. MIDNIGHT PICNIC. WORD RIOT PRESS

MIDNIGHT PICNIC

NICK ANTOSCA

WORD RIOT PRESS

An eerie story about the nature of death, Midnight Picnic is a non-traditional ghost story in which a vengeful child searches for his murderer on the deserted roads of the American countryside, drifting in and out of the afterlife.

“If there’s a real Hell out there in the American heartland, and real ghosts, I suspect Nick Antosca has seen them. Midnight Picnic reinvents the ghost story for our unsettled times—it’s a riveting and terrifying 21st Century Book of the Dead that’s one of the most frightening novels I’ve read in years,”
- Elizabeth Hand, author of Generation Loss, Mortal Love, and Winterlong.


MORE INFO HERE

KYLE MINOR. IN THE DEVIL'S TERRITORY. DZANC

This is the first line from the first story:

"I hate Christmas, but this year is different because there is a small chance my wife will die and take our unborn child with her."

With an opening line that fucking great, nothing else really needs to be said, but I'll give you a few blurbs from people who have written great things, just to seal the deal.

“In the Devil’s Territory is a brilliant, electrifying debut by one of America’s best young writers. Filled with grace and wisdom, Kyle Minor’s bold, compassionate stories burn deep into the eternal mysteries and violent truths of the human experience with the force of a welding torch cranked to the max. I would walk through Hell to be able to write like him.”
—Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff

“Who is Kyle Minor and how does he know so much about the dark caverns of the human heart? What whispered spells does he cast to make me laugh and weep and gasp and clench my jaw all in the same page? From what secret river does he pull his sentences, glittering and sinuous? Faced with such captivating writing, I have only amazed questions—because Kyle Minor has all the answers.”
—Benjamin Percy, author of Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk

THE BEST BLOG POST I'VE READ IN QUITE AWHILE

from SEAN LOVELACE

http://seanlovelace.com/2008/11/06/venison-chili-diagram-characters-in-fiction-amy-winehouse-is-falling-snow/

KEYHOLE 5. HANDWRITTEN ISSUE

KEYHOLE HANDWRITTEN ISSUE is live and ready to order.

http://www.keyholemagazine.com/

ML PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

This from ML PRESS website:

our new babies are ready for pre-order.

blake butler: IN THE RAPE YEAR OF THE GHETTO TODDLER THE HOUSES WILL AWAKEN

brandi wells: PATIENCE

nick antosca: RAT BEAST

this new trio will ship beginning nov. 15th &, as always, will be $2 each (includes shipping in the u.s.) & will be printed in a very limited run of 25-50 copies only. & though we sold out of shane jones' BLACK KIDS IN LEMON TREES, we do still have a few copies of ken baumann's Y2K & jimmy chen's FOOTNOTE1 left - get them while they last.

also, we have officially added more authors:

ml press is glad to announce that we have volumes forthcoming from:

sam pink
james chapman
michael kimball
kim chinquee
norman lock

exciting. stay tuned.

DEAR OHIO

GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME DOUCHE BAGS

BARACK OBAMA

GOD BLESS

HOBART. NOVEMBER ISSUE. LINDSAY HUNTER. RAVI MANGLA

UPDATE:

I just read this. HOLY SHIT.

UNPREPARING

LINDSAY HUNTER

http://www.hobartpulp.com/website/november/hunter.html


Check out the new HOBART. Excellent as usual. Another excellent story from RAVI MANGLA who seems to be in every fucking journal there is right now. Ravi, if you're working on a flash collection hit me up if you're interested in putting together a chapbook.

Here's the link to HOBART and to Ravi's story, MY STORE:

http://www.hobartpulp.com/website/november/mangla.html

UNDERGROUND VOICES. ROBERT A. DOLLESIN. HEATHER FOWLER

UNDERGROUND VOICES


HEATHER FOWLER

THE ROSE LAMP

http://www.undergroundvoices.com/UVFowlerHeather.htm


ROBERT A. DOLLESIN

ENTANGLEMENTS

http://www.undergroundvoices.com/UVDollesinRobertAquino.htm

STEFAN KIESBYE. UNDERWEAR I'VE WORN. KEYHOLE

STEFAN KIESBYE

KEYHOLE

UNDERWEAR I'VE WORN

http://keyholemagazine.com/stefan-kiesbye/underwear-ive-worn

PINDELDYBOZ. RAVI MANGLA. FINDERS KEEPERS

I strongly recommend heading over to PINDELDYBOZ and checking out the latest issue. The story FINDERS KEEPERS by RAVI MAGLA is great. Easily one of the best flashes I've read online in some time, along with the three BETH THOMAS stories over at FRIGG that I mentioned a few days ago.

PINDELDYBOZ

FINDERS KEEPERS

RAVI MANGLA

http://www.pindeldyboz.com/rmfinders.htm

KEYHOLE. BY THE ARM

I have a new story up at:

BARRY GRAHAM

KEYHOLE

BY THE ARM

http://www.keyholemagazine.com/barry-graham/by-the-arm


Go read that shit... now. Don't wait. It will self-destruct in 5 seconds like Inspector Gadget notes.

THE ART OF FRICTION. STEFAN KIESBYE. HITLERTOWN

THE ART OF FRICTION

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

STEFAN KIESBYE

HITLERTOWN

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/blafri.html

BEAR PARADE. NOAH CICERO. NOSFERATU

BEAR PARADE

NOAH CICERO

NOSFERATU

http://www.bearparade.com/nosferatu/

OCTOBER. PEQUIN

PEQUIN

STORIES BY:

MARIA ANDERSON

BARRY GRAHAM

BRANDI WELLS

ANTONIOS MALTEZOS

and others

http://pequin.org/archives.php

JA TYLER. THE GOOD WORD ON ACHILLES CHAPBOOK SERIES

from JA Tyler:

(ML Press is putting together a fine line-up of chapbooks, including work from Brandi Wells, Shane Jones, Blake Butler, Jimmy Chen, Ken Baumann, Nick Antosca):


drew kalbach's THE ZEN OF CHAINSAWS & ENORMOUS CLIPPERS is an engrossing read. his poetry works its way into a reader, pinching at places that seem normal & good until they are exposed to his bend of langauge, making them surreal & raw & broken.

barry graham's NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT IS SHOWING is a bulldozer of aggressive & charged stories, showcasing the sexual bent & savvy of graham's enticing & ticklish phrasing.

TINDERBOX LAWN. CAROL GUESS. ROSE METAL PRESS

from ROSE METAL PRESS:

"Set on the margins of Seattle, beneath bridges and on the banks of waterways, in strip clubs and flooded farmland, the prose poems in Tinderbox Lawn illuminate the intersection of domesticity and bohemia, orthodoxy and passion. Each untitled block of prose constitutes a novel-in-miniature, with shadow characters and shards of plot. The intensity of Carol Guess’s poems builds through lyrical language and recurring images, capturing the moment when “the small mad heart at the center of things stalls mid-tick.”

small EXCERPT:

Every morning you walk past the house with broken windows and break another window. The shiny Valentine inside scrubs dishes at the sink. Think hard enough about broken glass and it becomes rain in a tumbleweed town, drowning out the neighbors’ quarrels. You’ve had to invent this life to make it work. Try speaking but no sound comes out, try tenderness but it twists in an instant. Think blood on the mattress. Try running, and not for the scenery.

DOGZPLOT in THE SMALL PRESS REVIEWS

Huge thanks to Marc Schuster from THE SMALL PRESS REVIEWS for posting a review of the DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION anthology 2008. The review mentions stories by Joseph Graham, Barry Graham, Dawn Corrigan, and Scott Garson.

Small excerpt from the REVIEW:

"Each piece in the collection is under 200 words, and each, in the immortal words of Spider-Man, really packs a wallop. Among the standouts are two by Florida author Dawn Corrigan titled "Nemesis" and "The Pin," which deal with pathological uncles and unrequited love respectively. Another highlight is Scott Garson's "Accounts Payable," which asks the immortal question, "Why does the ham and cheese croissant cost less than the ham and cheese sandwich?" Rounding out the issue is Graham's "All Together," which arguably presents the definitive ultra-short version of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment."

Thanks again to Marc Schuster.

WIGLEAF. NEW STORIES. GREG GERKE

GREG GERKE

SENSELESS

http://wigleaf.com/200810senseless.htm


E.P. CHIEW

CHINESE EQUIVALENT

http://wigleaf.com/200810chineq.htm

FREE KWAME KILPATRICK

Apparently the only way a politician is fined a million dollars and does jail time for lying is if he's a black man from Detroit. Fuck off Wayne County.

WHO'S NAILIN' PALIN. NEW ISSUES. HUSTLER

New issues of HUSTLER. Check out the special WHO'S NAILIN' PALIN issue, which also features a pretty good article in memory of the late George Carlin.

And the new HOLIDAY issue, which has some pretty good things to say about one of my favorite comedians (think The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, not Malibu's Most Wanted), Jamie Kennedy.