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Mar 1, 2010, 11:59:55 PM3/1/10
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Hey!
Well and holy shit. You totally thought I wasn't going to make the deadline this time, didn't you? You were all like, "Isn't something supposed to happen today?" And then you remembered about dispatch's bi-weekly appearance and were like, "WTF?"
Well, I beat you this time. Barely. And not in the good style I have become accustomed to getting things done in. I've been recently flooded with getting new projects up, for instance: http://trickwithaknife.com. A democratic HTMLGiant or something. Not sure. Nathan Tyree's idea. We'll see what happens with it.
And so the other editions of dispatch twenty are not yet posted. They probably will be this weekend, but I'm setting the actual deadline for other editions of dispatch twenty and twenty-one as the 15th, when the next issue will go live. And if you've got a submission in the inbox, don't worry: I'll get to all of them this weekend. I'm sure there are a few other things wrong with the website right now. A redesign is in the works. I just have to get this other thing launched. You'll all love it, I promise. And I've been trying to write articles over at Underground Library -- http://undergroundlibrary.info (you might try too, if you've the moments to spare) -- and I've been writing a novel -- and I've been burning the fat off my abused body -- and I've been battling with the cigarettes. And all of that and so on. Worst divulging ever, I s'pose, but never mind.
Now enough about the struggle. There's a lot going on in everyone's life, this is always true.
I'm sure you've read, over the years, at least one thing written by Max Dunbar. Now you've got an opportunity to read a really trippy story of his called "Crossing the Psy-Field." Some of you are already screaming "genre fiction!" And that's what I was thinking at first, too, but the literary techniques used within these few pages are far beyond what I'd so quickly label something as "genre fiction."
And so I urge you to check out the current issue. It's up live right now at http://litareview.com. If you're reading this late, you can get to it directly via http://frsh.in/7n.
Now, here's another micro fiction for you.
phm · dispatch · litareview.com
-1‘Bang/Boom’
by Jason Henry McCormick (jasonhenr...@gmail.com)
Bang: an atom explodes, time starts, the universe distends and galaxies, stars, solar systems form, and the world begins. Bacteria spawns, spreads, and mutates into something larger, which evolves again and again and then humans come to be. Women make men who together make more and soon the planet is conquered by people, nations, countries and armies that constantly battle each other. History is recorded and empires rise and fall and reproduce. Religion leads to philosophy, philosophy leads to truth, and theories are developed about the past, present and future. Peace dies, shit happens, bombs drop, a button is pushed and everything comes to an end: boom.
Well and holy shit. You totally thought I wasn't going to make the deadline this time, didn't you? You were all like, "Isn't something supposed to happen today?" And then you remembered about dispatch's bi-weekly appearance and were like, "WTF?"
Well, I beat you this time. Barely. And not in the good style I have become accustomed to getting things done in. I've been recently flooded with getting new projects up, for instance: http://trickwithaknife.com. A democratic HTMLGiant or something. Not sure. Nathan Tyree's idea. We'll see what happens with it.
And so the other editions of dispatch twenty are not yet posted. They probably will be this weekend, but I'm setting the actual deadline for other editions of dispatch twenty and twenty-one as the 15th, when the next issue will go live. And if you've got a submission in the inbox, don't worry: I'll get to all of them this weekend. I'm sure there are a few other things wrong with the website right now. A redesign is in the works. I just have to get this other thing launched. You'll all love it, I promise. And I've been trying to write articles over at Underground Library -- http://undergroundlibrary.info (you might try too, if you've the moments to spare) -- and I've been writing a novel -- and I've been burning the fat off my abused body -- and I've been battling with the cigarettes. And all of that and so on. Worst divulging ever, I s'pose, but never mind.
Now enough about the struggle. There's a lot going on in everyone's life, this is always true.
I'm sure you've read, over the years, at least one thing written by Max Dunbar. Now you've got an opportunity to read a really trippy story of his called "Crossing the Psy-Field." Some of you are already screaming "genre fiction!" And that's what I was thinking at first, too, but the literary techniques used within these few pages are far beyond what I'd so quickly label something as "genre fiction."
And so I urge you to check out the current issue. It's up live right now at http://litareview.com. If you're reading this late, you can get to it directly via http://frsh.in/7n.
Now, here's another micro fiction for you.
phm · dispatch · litareview.com
-1‘Bang/Boom’
by Jason Henry McCormick (jasonhenr...@gmail.com)
Bang: an atom explodes, time starts, the universe distends and galaxies, stars, solar systems form, and the world begins. Bacteria spawns, spreads, and mutates into something larger, which evolves again and again and then humans come to be. Women make men who together make more and soon the planet is conquered by people, nations, countries and armies that constantly battle each other. History is recorded and empires rise and fall and reproduce. Religion leads to philosophy, philosophy leads to truth, and theories are developed about the past, present and future. Peace dies, shit happens, bombs drop, a button is pushed and everything comes to an end: boom.
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