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A dead dog and a dead kid. Sounds like some sappy stuff, huh? Barbara Park does a good job reaping this tear-conjuring material without overdoing it. A book for kids dealing with death early on or for parents who want to push their bike helmet agenda. A quick read that leaves a lasting impression.
This issue is highlighted by Kristina McDonald’s brilliant poem that craftily toys with the fairy tale, a fake interview with Alec Baldwin by Jack Frey, a deconstruction of the short story by Hardy Jones, a snappy open letter to Tim O’Brien and poignant thoughts on poetry by Michael Lee Rattigan.
We hope you enjoy the issue.
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He won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and the Washington Post Book of the Year Award. Like Chad Ocho Cinco and Dustin Hoffman, he went to Santa Monica College. He wrote graceful, fascinating and gorgeously crafted novels, and Edgardo Vega Yunqué (1936–2008) is also the master of the incredibly long and hard to remember novel titles that are stories in themselves.
Example 1:
Rebecca Horowiitz: A Puerto Rican Sex Freak which was originally going to be called:
How That Dirty Rotten Charlie Maisonet Turned Me into a Puerto Rican Sex Freak
Example 2:
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
Example 3:
No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cause Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again: A Symphonic Novel.
Let's give the underappreciated Mr. Yunqué some belated love.
Still sluggish from all the Valentine's candy gorging you did this weekend? Maybe a few story ideas are in order. What we have here are a few possible titles for as of yet unwritten stories by you. Let's see what you come up with...
-Always Bet on Black
-Appendicular Smash
-Winch Calcified
-I Haven't Been
If you write fiction as short as Kat Williams, there are a bevy of excellent journals that specialize in such microfiction. If you don't, maybe you should consider it as it opens a lot of little doors.
NANO Fiction (less than 300 words)
Inch (less than 750 words)
Quick Fiction (less than 500 words)
Gigantic (less than 700 words)
Wigleaf (less than 1000 words)
FRiGG accepts longer stories too, but seem to have a thing for flash.
.Cent Magazine (less than 350 words) plus they're English!
