Also, did we tell you? AWP!
We will be tabling with the good people over at NANO Fiction.
If you find yourself in the haze of AWP, come by and give us a hug.
Kyle Hemmings at matchbook
Keep warm?
No problem. It’s going to be 44 today.
In celebration, read this piece by Kyle Hemmings.
Then
do some
kind
of
dance.
Krammer Abrahams at matchbook!
A doozie for you today:
boots walking in america bought some new boots by Krammer Abrahams
at matchbook
for real.
You’ve maybe been waiting for something like this.
Robert Kloss at matchbook
Exciting excerpt from Robert Kloss’s forthcoming MLP title, The Alligators of Abraham.
The excerpt is called A City of Bison. You should probably read it.
You heard me.
And if you missed our review of Kloss’s current MLP title, How the Days of Love & Diptheria, read it here.
Chanel Dubofsky at matchbook
Holiday one of two: complete.
Get yourself through by way of matchbook.
Today, a tiny piece by Chanel Dubofsky called Blind.
Get yourself through.
Get yourself.
Get.
Matthew Savoca at matchbook
A tiny novel excerpt from Matthew Savoca, entitled Jean.
Do you eat turkey?
Review: ‘How The Days Of Love & Diptheria’ by Robert Kloss
-Edward Mullany
Who or what is the antagonist in Robert Kloss’s novella, How The Days Of Love & Diptheria?
Or is there an antagonist to speak of?
The book is written in the second person; it is about “you”, a vague yet powerful individual or force that seems intent on bringing the apocalypse. I say “seems” because it’s possible that the violence that comprises this “apocalypse” is merely a consequence of a different mission, one that involves the pursuit of a nameless boy whose parents “you” have already slain. Across the countryside, and through the years, this boy hides and persists, desperate at first, terrified of “your black masks and long teeth”, living under the soil as “your horses thundered the hillsides”. Later, by his wits, and through a little violence of his own, the boy returns to civilization (which has already been decimated by that diptheria of the title); he lives among people, falls in love, procreates, only to see his son killed in an onrush of light and noise that he and his wife somehow survive. An explanation or motive for any of this isn’t given. Animals fall from the sky.
Tom Mahony’s Second Novel: Flooding Granite
matchbook contributor Tom Mahony’s second novel, Flooding Granite, is now out from Casperian Books! Check it out!
Joseph Young at matchbook!
The inimitable Joseph Young has a short at matchbook today entitled Monks.
You know what to do.
Double dose at matchbook
In case you missed matchbook in the last two weeks, we had a story by Matty Byloos, entitled Some of Them Almost Grew Up in the Zoo. The story rests pleasantly in our archive, waiting for you.
Up this week is sputnik 2, by Andrew Michael Roberts. Another gem. You really need to get on these. Really. It’ll do you good.
