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volume 1, number 2 summer 1997
Poetry, Fictions, Essays,
Art and so on and so forth, the usual mix of
eclectica.
Our second issue contained fiction by award winning
authors and damn funny writers, someday perhaps I'll actually get
some of it up here. Perhaps you should bookmark this and come back
in a bit, say a year, maybe three, and see if it's getting any better.
Stuffs from Issue 2 to give you a taste before Issue
3.
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Contents
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Wandering among the alphabet
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Fictions
Vanishing Act, Kelly Link
Tan Tan and the Rolling Calf, Nalo Hopkinson
Early Bird, Joseph Bills
Personal Growth, Gavin J. Grant
Poetries
Stick Man, Dora Knez
The Truck Driver, Edward Osowski
Thrusting Thighs of Passion, Gaston
Who Owns A Corporation
Again' The Ocean
The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe
Essaying
Things Change: A Meditation, Your Uncle Willie
A Bike Story, Or Enlightenment Through Endorphins, Tim Emswiler
Scotch, An Essay Into A Drink
You Must Be Flipping Crazy
Review
Cooking Rock, A Zine
Scars Upon My Heart, A Poetry Anthology
Crossword
Contributor's Bit
The skinny on the folks
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Welcome to another outburst of joy, happiness, more good comestibles
than ever, and a truckload of stress parked in my driveway (I
don't have a driveway, but let's not quibble this early in the
day). After the shimmering success the first issue of Lady
Chatterly's Sometime Lover enjoyed we had to come back for
more. Why that name? is still the most popular question with the
quizzical public: it's simple, I liked it. No one's losing $$
on this but me, so why not? Besides Lady Churchill (Mrs. Randolph,
the former Jennie Jerome of New York City, mother of Winston "Make
mine Cuban" Churchill) was a helluva interesting person;
and despite the approaching-dreadful-in-places writing, Ralph
G. Martin's Jennie, the Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
can't but fail to keep the interest; my recommendation for a lazy
summer read.
Summer in Massachusetts, what a gorgeous thing, what a muggy,
overcast horrid thing, time to move abroad methinks, so who knows,
the next mouth-watering issue might appear from Japan, depending
on what the prices at the local photocopiers are.
The Contributor's Bits at the end tell you the important things
about our pensmiths, but the biggest and best is here: Nalo
Hopkinson has won the Warner Aspect Best First Novel Contest!
Her novel Brown Girl In the Ring will be published by Warner
Aspect in the summer of 1998 and the plaudits are just going to
start rolling in. Even before she won I was very happy to publish
an excerpt from her second novel, Midnight Robber; Tan-Tan
and The Rolling Calf is a stand-alone folk tale from the novel
in progress. It's a joy to read not only for the tale - and the
mythos behind it creeping into your awareness - but for the language
which the reader will find echoing many a day afterward.
Maybe that's my definition of a good fiction: that it echoes
beyond what is actually described within it. It can be experience
or action; a hint or a common reference; the physical words and
language used. No matter what, there must be some aspect of it
that gets beyond the navel-gazing onanismatic reflex of the non-self-reflecting
individual. The fiction we present for your delectation passes
these small criteria. It'll keep you happy and interested and
keep the magazine afloat for another season.
Come back Autumn, all is forgiven. Actually I want summer to
stay, but would someone bribe the Winds and send a cool breeze
my way, please? Thanks for coming, hope you enjoy the show,
flying high on wings of wax
gjg/kdl
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The Skinny on the Folks
Born Henri Rochelle Gaston Beauchfort, Gaston
is the only child of an unnamed French prostitute and the well known
leader of the French Resistance Jean Harold Michele de St. Giroux
Beuchfort. In his youth, Gaston was the well known lover of many women
including Gertrude Stein, Simone de Beauvoir, Laura Ingalls Wilder,
& Hannah Arrendt. His autobiography Gaston Remembers is
considered the epitome of the modern confessional biography and has
been called by the New York Times "a modern day Augustine's Confessions
with the good parts left in," and "a sure fire way to get
women hot" by Penthouse Magazine. Gaston currently is
living in Cambridge where he is working on a series of poems that
reflect upon his days in traveling in the Tour de France (of which
'Thrusting Thighs of Passion' is one).
Joseph Bills is a local entrepreneur, pensmith
(free-agent/for-hire) and a dangerous man in a boxing ring.
Tim Emswiler edits Weird Times. Man
about town, friend to dogs, bon-vivant, non-angst ridden, has had
fiction published in Blue Lady, Aberrations,
Dragon and Death Realm among others.
Gavin J. Grant, agent provocateur in his own
head.
Nalo Hopkinson's
first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, will be published next
year by Warner Aspect. She has published a number of short stories
in Canada where she's resided about half her life. She has a story
in each of the next two Ellen Datlow/Terry Windling anthologies: 'Riding
the Red' in Black Swan, White Raven, (available now) and 'Precious'
in Silver Birch, Blood Moon, (summer 1998). She does great
readings.
Dora
Knez is Canadian, a graduate of the Clarion writing workshop,
married to a vulcan(ologist), and writes like a dream. She informs
me that the Stick Man is a shape found by plotting galaxies on a 3-D
computer model. Renaissance woman.
Kelly Link writes
fiction and works in the best bookshop in Boston. She has a great
book collection and holds wonderful parties where there's chat, perhaps
a glass of wine or a whisky, then people take out a volume of their
own or pick a book off the shelf and settle down to read. However,
never play cards with this woman, you'll lose.
Edward Osowski is off researching in Mexico
for the summer, at some point in the future he'd like to get paid
for that kind of thing, or at least for his writings. A Chicago native,
a part-time musician and by all accounts a sharp dresser, Ed assembled/contrived/made/created/
imagined and brought to life the collage cover for this issue as well
as contributing a poem.
Your Uncle Willy is an adept. A connoisseur
of the fine art of hanging out in now. He has been occasionally sighted
sleuthing the stacks of then and when at the ol' AVH Bookshop. Often
likened unto the fabled Culture Vulture which glides high above the
passing parade ever sweeping it with a sharply focussed beady eye.
Thus, it may be said, he describes the true definition of 'a now kind
of guy.'
Contents are © the authors, please do not reprint
without permission. All rights reserved. Probably. Submissions of
material and/or cash, chocolate, pizza (I suggest Bluestone Bistro
here in Brighton, books, music, zines etc.) can be made to the above
address, with an SAE if you want a reply. Remembering, of course,
this isn't known an an Occasional Outburst for nothing. Su-ure, we're
sticking to the May/November schedule (shed-ul).
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