Shooting this press conference is the first worthwhile thing Francis Thorndyke will do in twenty-three years of life, and if he buggers it up he’ll forfeit his right ever to shoot anything more worthwhile than country bumpkins chasing cheeses down hills. His editor has vouchsafed this to him with the aid of an evocative metaphor involving bollocks, barbecues, and bamboo skewers. From my cubbyhole in the back of his mind…
Issue: September 2009
Safety
“Care to buy me a drink?”
“No.”
Sandra blinked. Clearly this man had not learned the script, and without the script she didn’t see how he thought he had a chance. His [...]
Peter’s Shell
A three hundred foot-tall lighthouse with a red barbershop stripe made no sense in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, but Wendy wanted it, so it was there. Lighthouses were [...]
Within the Castle Walls
Beauty could no longer remember how long she had lived in the Beast’s castle. It had been late winter when she came; she was sure of that, for it had [...]
Pandora’s Blog
November 25
I got a bio internship at Portland State University starting next quarter, working for Professor H. He has a USDA grant for “Colony Collapse Disorder of the Western Honeybee,” [...]
Scavenger
If you go back to the same pet store every week, month after month, to buy a single goldfish, the clerks will start to get suspicious. They will think that [...]
The Age of Ra, by James Lovegrove
Staff writer Ciro Faienza looks at the the well-respected Lovegrove’s latest work.
On Conspiracies and Twitter: An Interview With Pamela Glasner
Pamela Glasner is the debut author of the novel Finding Emmaus, a historically accurate dark fantasy that discusses empathy, the way society handles abnormalities, and the pharmaceutical industry. After a [...]
A Comma Can’t Keep A Good Writer Down
Although boring as cocktail conversation, the comma is a necessary tool and an important element in writing. However, as an editor of both fiction and non-fiction pieces, I often see [...]