I would go here from now on: www.metazen.ca Nothing new will be published here. Here is an excerpt from an upcoming story: “THERE ARE FIVE OF ME LIVING IN MY HOUSE. Frank, 2 is the youngest. He seldom cries but when he shits, his shits terrible. Frank, 18 is writing a fantasy novel that is […]
July 28, 2009
Were I you, I’d go here from now on. www.metazen.ca www.metazen.ca www.metazen.ca You will find some excellent writing by authors like Finnegan Flawnt, Howie Good and Felix Soriano as well as my perpetually shitty writing.
July 28, 2009
We will be moving to www.metazen.ca soon. Actually metazen.ca is about 90% complete, so you can start finding us there now. Sorry for any hassle, I know I’ll beat myself up over it. I just ate the little chewy paper wrapper from my muffin-bottom. I think it was the most nutritious part.
July 27, 2009
“How was your day?” asked Lili. “I went to see my therapist, Bradbury,” I said. “And?” *** “Tonight, the insect population is not happy with me,” I told Bradbury. “To them I am the devil.” “The devil?” he asked. “Earlier today I crept outside and knelt before a kingdom of ants on the north-eastern border […]
July 26, 2009
By kj in my childhood, mom imparted this to me: be careful where you put your happiness. growing up i thought she was right because whenever some horrid event befell me i thought about her adage, & i moved my happiness somewhere else: a safer place. that used to be the way i thought till […]
July 24, 2009
By Andrew Harvey The average man in North America owns six point two pairs of pants. Andrew had four, maybe four and a half; He had just ripped the crotch out of his second-string jeans, so he wasn’t sure if they counted anymore. This put him significantly below average, which worried him. It also spurred […]
July 23, 2009
By Felino A. Soriano Painters’ Exhalations 420 —after Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park No. 54 The eyes nod an of course answering quotidian query of distance drawing conjured invitation. Welcomed. Horizon’s arms dangling a crooked concept call toward the multilayered dispensation gathering a tribute to desensitized […]
July 22, 2009
Operator: You have reached the Writers In Crisis Hot-line. If you are a fiction writer, press one. If you are a non-fiction writer, press two. If you write poems, press one. If you write prose, press two. If you write short stories, press one. If you write longer works of fiction, press two. If you […]
July 21, 2009
By Howie Good STILL LIFE WITH FIREARMS It would be peaceful here if it weren’t for the crucified thieves writhing in the background. A waiter with the red face of a seraph sidles up and offers to show me to a table. I hurry away as if I had somewhere to go. Others wait at […]
July 31, 2009
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