ISSUE ONE: NOVEMBER 2014
In honour of Dan Adie’s short story The Children of Sandoz, we are offering 3-day time travel holidays to five lucky readers. To enter the draw, please email us with your name, age, location, and the answer to this question: what colour is the bad acid? (Read the story to find out.) If you win, we’ll send you to a time period and a destination we think you’ll enjoy.
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Excerpt: Collective Dream Journal
McTangle She placed her hands on the rails, as if surveying her empire. We looked out over the city, benevolent protectors watching over a settlement that neither understood nor cared about us. Excerpt: Hipster Myths
Sara Lewis The use of irony amongst the hipster community was actually a mistake. The writer of the original Hipster Bible had intended to write “obnoxious use of ironing” but the g wasn’t working on his typewriter. Excerpt: Quarry
Sterling Arthur Leva I didn’t want to deprive the guy of his entire life. I’m not a savage. I wasn’t about to go back in time and off his pregnant mom or strangle him in his stroller or anything like that. I just needed to get to him before his artistic ambitions took hold. |
Excerpt: Al
Fran Oliver The text arrived. A short salacious paragraph accompanied by a candid selfie. Coquettish look to camera; tragically misplaced apostrophe. She was young, of course, and this both excited and depressed him. Excerpt: The Penny Eaters
Meghan Bee She knew that the lunch lady didn’t eat children but that the janitor did; that animals would talk to you only if you won their respect; and that you shouldn’t eat fish because mermaids took the form of fish when frightened. Excerpt: Campfire Tale
Helena Hann-Basquiat She was the third victim of the killers known as The Walrus and The Carpenter. The victims were dubbed ‘Oysters’ by a shameless tabloid reporter, who wrote that the killers shucked their victims like oysters. |
Excerpt: The Button Collector
Jon Pluck A top hat and tails and a huge overcoat, as if ripped from the pages of a Charles Dickens novel. But the strangest thing of all were the buttons, falling in a seemingly endless, gentle flow from his every pocket and cuff. Excerpt: Lincoln’s Pecker
Marion Frobisher The President was convinced to end “Daguerreotype-gate” when he was shown that the telegraph used for his late night sexual innuendo-filled telegrams could be traced back to the Oval Office. Excerpt: Tune In Next Week
Wallaby 8:30 pm - The staff of a topless donut shop rent rooms in a convent from down on their luck nuns. --- 9:00 pm - Rich people allow a peek into their glittering lives as a reminder that they’re better than you. |
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