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As 2014 has been careening through its homestretch, our Flappers have been even more prolific than usual, getting their work published across the internet like there won’t be a 2015.
Jeff Laughlin shared some things he’s learned this year in “The Year I Didn’t Belong” over at Triad City Beat.
Mari Ness’ “Offgrid” popped up at Three-Lobed Burning Eye.
Dusty Wallace’s “Flight of the Lonely” went up at Acidic Fiction.
Samantha Eliot Stier’s “Plugs” was inserted into The Writing Disorder.
Juliet Cook & j/j hastain collaborated on “Clots Push Over the Edge” for the latest issue of Stirring.
Alison McBain’s playfully absurd “Nothing For Sale” was featured at Saturday Night Reader.
Ed Ahern left his “Aftertaste” at New Pop Lit.
Anna Lea Jancewicz’s poem “Black Robin” nested at Spry Lit.
Cassandra de Alba’s poem “Tyra Banks in the Arctic Circle” strutted the runway at Glitter Mob.
Mila Jaroniec joined drDOCTOR for their year-end podcast.
Emily O’Neill’s poem “Proof” was included in the latest edition of Sundog Lit.
Natalia Theodoridou’s “The Ravens’ Sister” perched itself at The Kenyon Review Online.
J.E. Reich wrote about embracing the changing Jewish family for The Jewish Daily Forward.
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s “Sleepers” went up at Fantastic Stories of the Imagination.
Julie C. Day’s “Faerie Medicine,” which initially appeared in FLAPPERHOUSE #2, was reprinted by Luna Station Quarterly.
Book nerds have written thousands of words musing upon the significance of the dead seagull in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” We’re not sure if the dead seagull in Samantha Eliot Stier‘s “The Hole” (from our Fall 2014 issue) is also supposed to represent a dichotomy between old and new art, or something like that– but we do know that we never get tired of reading this delightfully daft story.
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WE MEET IN A HOLE IN THE SAND. There’s also a dead seagull in the hole, but it’s a big enough hole that we don’t step on it.
He had seen some kids digging the hole earlier, he says, so it was silly of him to fall right into it. He was jogging, he says, staring at the sun as it sprinkled his eyes with little flash-pops. When he looked forward again, he couldn’t see where he was going. That was how he’d fallen into the hole.
He says he twisted his ankle but it will probably be fine. He reaches for my hand, but first I want to bury the seagull. I pull sand with my fingers until the seagull is covered. You can still see one of his feathers sort of sticking up through the sand, but I leave it like that, a grave marker.
What if someone else falls in the hole? I ask.
He shrugs. I say we should probably fill the hole.
But that would take too long, he says. Instead, we gather seaweed and circle the hole, so people will see it. The tide’s coming in, he says.
He hobbles along next to me, asks where I’m going. If I’m not too busy, he says, would I be willing to help him distribute his CDs? He’s a musician, and his musician name is Lion. He leaves his CDs under people’s windshield wipers and in their mailboxes. He says people love his music so much they give his CD to their friends and family. He has Fans, he says. Lots of them.
They had told me to be more careful, and I know they would be mad if I went with this man, but I will tell them he had kind eyes, that he helped me bury the seagull. Continue reading “The Hole” – Fiction by Samantha Eliot Stier
Our Fall 2014 issue is so wonderfully bizarre & freakishly beautiful it’ll make your cheeks quiver & explode. It begins with an Alternate Reality Game, ends with a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, and in between there’s pink slime, raving gods, naked alligator rides, regurgitated Raymond Carver, a bunch more fiction that’s too bizarre to summarize here, and some phenomenal poetry.
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including
“Human Child” – Brendan Byrne
“Blood Ties” – Diana Clarke
“Map of the Twentieth Century” – Samantha Duncan
“We Dream of Our Dead Pets” – Carl Fuerst
“Friday Night, Saturday Morning” – M.N. Hanson
“I Climb Down the Tree One-Handed and in Another Life,”
“Piney and Buoyant We Wave, Consecrate,”
“Ode to Joy,”
“Painstaking,” and
“This is the Shaky Phase”– Jessie Janeshek
“Chicken Sandwich” – Rebecca Ann Jordan
“Meeting” – Jeff Laughlin
“Buried Treasure” – Ashley Lister
“ARG” – Anthony Michael Morena
“reflect / refract,”
“Pentacost,”
“them bones,”
“Year of the Horse,”
and “Street Music” – Emily O’Neill
“Laundromat” – Smith Smith
“The Hole” – Samantha Eliot Stier
“We Call Her Mama” – Natalia Theodoridou
“Cold Duck” – Joseph Tomaras
“Just Another Evening” – Dusty Wallace
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