Archive for December, 2008
It’s the tail end of the year, and everybody’s got a list. Ours is community-sourced: the top ten recommended stories on Fictionaut since beta testing began in August, as determined by a combination of comments, views, and faves. Congrats to the writers, thanks to everybody for reading and commenting, and a happy, healthy, and productive 2009 all around!
“Dad woke us up and said it was time to go.” Thus begins “Christmas Morning” by Rarely Likable blogger and Northville Review editor Erin Fitzgerald, an eerie post-apocalyptic flash fiction that distills the promise and dread of the holidays into a compact 200-word story fraught with hope and fear.
It’s our way of wishing you happy holidays and thanking you for being a part of Fictionaut. We’re thrilled with the way the community is developing, and we’re looking forward to adding all sorts exciting improvements to the site in the coming year.
Shari Goldhagen, Claudia Smith, Molly Gaudry, and Amy Guth contributed essays to What Happened To Us These Last Couple Of Years, an anthology of writing inspired by the Bush years and edited by David Barringer.
When the Flock Changed, an excerpt of Maud Newton’s novel-in-progress, is available at Narrative Backstage.
The December issue of elimae features work from five Fictionauts: Brian Beatty (”Corduroy“), Kim Chinquee (”Five Fictions“), Meg Pokrass (”Two Fictions“), Randall Brown (”Something Else“), and Jennifer Pieroni (”Three Fictions“).
“Ben Greenman, an editor at the New Yorker, is a writer who is seriously weird. He is also seriously funny. Yet the best of the stories in this collection are more than funny.” That’s the San Francisco Chronicle on A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love — but that was last year. Read more.
Pittsburgh’s own Caketrain publishes gorgeous books and a journal designed to “submerge you in a birthing tank for gelatinous language monsters.” Issue 06 features work by a record number of Fictionauts, including Sara Levine, Jayne Pupek, Michael Kimball, Forrest Roth, Brian Foley, Kate Hill Cantrill, and Kim Chinquee.
We asked Caketrain publisher Joseph Reed to pick a favorite piece on Fictionaut, and he chose Lizzie Skurnick’s poem “You Could Marry Anyone.” Keep reading…
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