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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Slow News Days
Not really. I've had welcome visitors for a week now and I have a new issue of Night Train due out soon. I figure we'll be back to regular posting in about a week. In the meantime, theres' this: Activists … Continue reading
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Best of the Web Nominations
Here they are– Give Up and Go Home, Jasper–Charles Dodd White http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2010/07/09/give—up—and—go—home—jasper—fiction—by—charles—dodd—white/ Jeff Crook–The End of the War http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2010/05/10/barry—hannah—competition—1st—place—jeff—crook/ John Mcmanus–Blood Brothers http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2010/03/29/blood—brothers—by—john—mcmanus/
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PA Homeland Security gave names of anti-drill activists to drilling company
Anti-frack, watch your back, somebody's watching you… Pennsylvania Homeland Security has been spying on anti-drilling activists, taking down names of attendees at meetings and even a screening of a documentary on drilling; these dossiers on peaceful protesters are then supplied to … Continue reading
Michigan Seems Like a Dream To Me Now, poem by Dennis Mahagin
From Corvallis to Farmville, the Kesey novel steepled my kneecap, while a girl named Kathy chatted me across the Greyhound aisle, out of kindness, curiosity, spring fever or pity. And the piebald bovines in their greenery, standing still yet rushing past Tillamook where … Continue reading
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Della, fiction by Jarrid Deaton
Dan says he’s getting tired of me talking in my sleep. Says I mumble like a child and toss and turn, flail my arms. What I see is the inside of the school bus. I see forty kids laughing. Then … Continue reading
Ron Rash Festival October 1st and 2nd Gardner-Webb University
Charles Dodd White made me aware of this. Wish I could go. No doubt some of you are. The festival is sponsored by Gardner-Webb's Southern Appalachian Culture Series. Ron Rash currently holds the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at … Continue reading
Highway 50, fiction by Murray Dunlap
Two AM. Highway 50. Ely, Nevada. We laughed out loud at the Break-a-Heart Hotel in Silver Springs, flew past the Last Chance Saloon in Austin, then passed up the Parsonage House in Eureka. A coyote darted across both lanes a … Continue reading