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News
The new issue of Straight From The Fridge is here. Always magnificent in style and content (and they were kind enough to include one of my stories in this issue).
Issue 23 of Storyglossia - the fiction prize issue - is now available. These are the winning entries in the annual short story competition. That’s gotta be pretty good stuff.
Issue 18 of SmokeLong Quarterly is online. A great flash fiction magazine.
GUD Magazine is offering a copy of The Apocalypse Reader for the best comment on their review of this great short story collection.
Issue 96 of Zygote In My Coffee is now live.
NooJournal issue 7 is now available.
New vignettes from Tuesdays Shorts.
From the Thieves Jargon discussion board - a new zine, Literary Tonic is requesting submissions. They’re affiliated with Outsider Writers, so that’s gotta be good.
Pinch Magazine - the prestigious print magazine from the U of Memphis is calling for submissions, particularly in the area of creative non-fiction - ‘personal essays, memoir, funky stuff.’
Glimmer Train advises that the deadline for their short story competition is September 30. There’s a $15 reading fee and $2000 available in prize money. That sounds very tempting.
Vids from Matthew Coleman. Is this the new ‘Henry Miller’ giving us a glimse of the old Henry Miller?
My father who is 90, writes nostalgic pieces for Good Old Days Magazine. He’s sold a lot of them over the years, but this is the first one I’ve found online.
Opinion
Marvelous interview by Andrew Gallix about Crass and anarcho-punk. I never heard of Crass before, and in a way I’m glad or very sad about that.
Back in the day, I was the consummate rebel, outcast, anarchist, antichrist. Not exactly ‘consummate’ in the sexual sense. If I had been, I would’ve no doubt simply enjoyed life, youth, and hot wet places like you’re supposed to. But failing that, I put all my sublimated energies into radicalism. Which is only radical if you accept the notion that everything wrong with our world is somehow okay.
From an early age I realized some obvious things, while failing to grasp the most obvious. Among these - humans should not be ruled by other humans. And God in his infinite wisdom does not exist. Though He did put me in close proximity to a lot of hot young opportunities. Sorry God, I messed that up.
Time-wise, this would have been the height of the Hippie era. Which for all of you who don’t know, was literally and figuratively the flowering epoch of humanity. The essence of this was individual freedom. If you’ve ever done that, it’s one of the greatest feelings there is. Youthful sex is probably better, but total freedom is a very close second.
There was also the absolute knowing that idealism - goodness, truth, reality - was not only irrefutable and practical, it was also within our reach. We could do this, individually and on a world wide scope. Of course we were crushed by the corporate conservatives and our own excesses. But for awhile...we were living the dream.
Had Crass come to America... O brave new world, that has such people in it.