The Archives
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08.03.09Peer ReviewMy short story Peer Review appears this month in issue #1 of the new literary journal Media Virus. (Issue #1 is really the second issue of the journal; my inner Java programmer likes that the numbering system indicates a zero-based index.) Though blatantly inspired by Kafka--Joseph K. is a main character, and much of the "action" is set in The Castle--this is actually a true story. A long time ago, I was one of the editors of my undergraduate literary magazine. We had a circulation of a couple hundred, maybe, and twice a year we slogged through a big pile ...
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05.15.09An Old ManuscriptHere it is May 15 already, halfway through the Short Story Month declared by the Emerging Writers Network, and I haven't written anything about my favorite literary form. I blame Peter's tonsillectomy, several bags of mulch, the beautiful weather (it's a crime to squander Minnesota's few fragile days of summer in front of a computer), and general inertia, but I'll make up for it the rest of the month. Marcel Jolley proposed a "short story mix tape" back at the beginning of the month, and I'm going to put together a "mix tape" of my own. Kids these days ...
