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Oh Stan. Something awful's happened. I’m at Shelly’s. Can you come over? This was something new. Something that was unsettling and exciting at the same time. Maybe something had happened to Shelly. Or that asshole Richard. Maybe they would be interviewed in the papers by morning. I’ll be right over, he said. Had they slapped and scratched and tore each other half to pieces in secret? They stood facing each other. Jen—petite, with black hair, dark eyes, dark lipstick—whose skin was as pale...
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REVIEWS
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Rick sat in the tub with his head back on a wet towel while Margie rubbed his shoulders with her wrinkled hands. She was Chinese. He called her Margie because it was easy and it sounded more American and she sometimes liked to think of herself that way. She cupped her hands and filled them with warm water. She poured it down his back and then on top of his head so that it trickled down past his eyes. See who it is, he said. Margie came back in. Who is it, he asked. Did you let him in? Go let him in.
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Interview with Frederick Reiken. Conducted by Abby Holcomb. Review: Don DeLillo's Point Omega. Rick lowered the knife. He looked at the virgin. He could barely tell she was a woman. The angles of her cheeks were gone, flattened from years that left her with nothing to tell what she once was. Her feet and her hands were just rounded white stones and her robe was full of little holes as if the birds had begun to peck her away. Zap, Donnie, and You're Done. By Daniel W. Davis. When Stan opened his eyes, the...
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Interview
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Interview with Frederick Reiken. Conducted by Abby Holcomb. Frederick Reiken is the author of three novels, including the Hackney Literary Award-winning The Odd Sea. And the forthcoming Day for Night. Which will be released April 26, 2010 by Reagan Arthur Books of Little, Brown. His short stories have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker. Mr Reiken has received much critical acclaim for his work, including a recent listing as one of The Daily Telegraph. A place can be animate and have specific...
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Buzzard Picnic
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The voice quivers, shimmers, shivers the darkness,. Cecilia Bartoli holding high C on the verge of still waters. La donna del lago sings while behind scenery. A voice whispers into a mic to bring up green filters,. The licking mimic of the sheen of water, the muted. Pit below the stage where the lean cello’s notes. Carry across the seats, the ushers, the old woman. Fumbling for mints in her purse, and in the lobby. A girl is talking on her phone, the music scratching. Leans in and makes her presence known.
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BIBLIOPHILIA
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This morning, I picked up the novel I’ve been reading and just couldn’t bring myself to open it. I’ve committed to three-hundred pages of Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang. Our hero is an honest man, who wants only to farm, raise horses, and take care of his family. Desperately poor and the constant victim of utterly (almost comically) unscrupulous law enforcement, Ned Kelly is just and sort of and made. Ndash; book by Rick Moody, film directed by Ang Lee.) I was high ...
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SUBMISSIONS
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Is currently looking for short fiction, memoir, essay, criticism, book and story reviews, and author interviews. Additionally, relevant comic strips, art and/or design will be considered for publication. All pieces must be proofread and publication-ready. Buzzard Picnic. Due to the volume of submissions, we will not be able to personally respond to each one. Submission acceptance will come by email approximately 8-12 weeks after the piece has been received by our editors. Abby Holcomb, Editor-In-Chief.
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Buzzard Picnic
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How’s your back? Better. Still tight in the shoulder, but my lower back is better. He opens the folder and scans his notes with the pen. When he finds what he’s looking for he taps the nib. Time before last, your stomach thing was back. I wrote here ‘nervous stomach, some diarrhea, nauseous, trouble sleeping.’. Same, I guess. Sleeping better. Ned’s pen darts back and forth, back and forth across the page like the needle of a polygraph. How’s Jason? Who’s doing the fighting? We are. Jason and me. Ned stan...
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ARCHIVE
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Issue 1, Dec 2009. Interview with Hannah Tinti. Conducted by Abby Holcomb. Review: E.L. Doctorows Homer and Langley. The Other Side of Water. It's not much of an explanation, but she can tell by the way he gazes through the windshield that he's said all he's going to say about it. She tries to imagine him, moving on his skinny legs over those piles of snow, in July. Birdmen and Teacups Named Florence.
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Buzzard Picnic
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They start you off sorting. But you quickly surpass. When the quality of light. For telling time and la luna. The mark by which seasons. Will come and go again. I watch you twist and turn. The linear path you travel. Back on itself the dog. Finally catching his tail. But with knowing reason. When they show you. The map of the world. You look for the line. Into ocean and speculate. There must be a beach there. Where else could the water. Go without flooding the town? You know you are in the middle. Dr Car...
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