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Quick Impersonal Update
I've updated the FARE page (Dennis Mahagin's chapbook from Redneck Press due out 12/9/11). We have new work forthcoming from Mather Schneider, Jeff Wallace and Kurt Taylor. As well, I've updated the interviews and publications pages listed under my biography. … Continue reading
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Ghost Teeth, by Dena Rash Guzman
My dead and buried speak from the memorial cards inside my white Bible. They command through their ghost teeth, “Again.” Grace! There is no again. The leaves turn red and turn gold. I go old, writing softly, pulling down inky words like snuff spit into great-grandma’s tin can. … Continue reading
Hillbilly Handfishin'
What do you all think of this show? I like it, but I wonder if this isn't just another 'look at the weird stuff hillbillies do' show. On the other hand, I first learned of noodling from Burkhard Bilger's Noodling … Continue reading
The Bull: A Jack Tale, fiction by Jeff Wallace
Jack and Mrs. Jones stood in the foyer of the Big House. Her half-blind, soupy eyes blinked, focused, and looked him over. He felt them range from his worn tennis shoes up his thin legs and thread-bare jeans and across … Continue reading
Portrait of a Robot, fiction by William Trent Pancoast
He doesn’t know how he got this way. Crazy, that is. Most things, you think about them long enough, you come up with an answer. All he knows for sure is that he got to work this morning in his … Continue reading
Frank Bill's Hardcore Stories: Crimes in Southern Indiana
Farrar Straus Giroux made an interesting—and exciting—choice when they published Frank Bill's linked collection Crimes in Southern Indiana. Never known for having crime fiction or indeed for having books about anything other than upper class literature or literature in translation, … Continue reading
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The Rack, fiction by Mather Schneider
I needed to make a rack for the back of my old green truck, so I bought these 2 X 12 boards, treated cedar, from the lumber yard. I was from Chicago, new to Arkansas, but I was learning my … Continue reading
Mountaintop Removal Myth: a summary
From Beth Wellington at the Guardian. CNN correspondent Soledad O'Brien's recent piece on mountaintop removal (MTR) in the Appalachian mountains has the troubling title, "Steady job or healthy environment: what [sic] would you choose?" How about we choose both? In any case, … Continue reading
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Poems by Dennis Mahagin
Blues For Billy C I'm used to being fucked but it's not what you think; flip me a couple bucks? I won't trip, I don't drink. A shower of violet misty steam feels good. Costs four bucks at Pilot truckstop banya cedarwood. It's cool in the morning … Continue reading
Interview with Verless Doran
Verless Doran lives and writes in the hills of East Tennessee. His works have appeared in The Smoking Poet, Heroin Love Songs, Lit Up Magazine, The Suisun Valley Review, Prick of the Spindle Press, Dogzplot Literary Journal, and Riverbabble Journal. … Continue reading
