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* Fictionaut April Fool’s Challenge!
* Jim Hanas leads up to his Significant Object on Fictionaut.
* At Litsnack, John Minichillo’s “Moving In And Reunited With Her Things.”
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   Luna Digest, 2/23
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Tomorrow, February 24, Creative Nonfiction releases their long-awaited magazine redesign. The issue looks like it will also include some interesting things for CN—such as an encounter with Dave Eggers, Philip Lopate on using the imagination, and the history of Creative Nonfiction. [Read more]

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I came to write “Credentials” when I wanted to expand on a secondary character I had created for an earlier story, because I was trying to write a book (Luminous Mysteries). The character had the name Belly Man. I had given myself that name one morning when, looking in the mirror, I was surprised to see that my physique had changed. [Read more]

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“Infinite Things All At Once” makes you look inside your heart, try to comprehend and sigh. A true gem of a story. [Read

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   Fictionaut Five: Kirk Farber

Fictionaut has always relied on your feedback to evolve. To find out what works, what doesn’t, and what we need to improve next, we’ve created a short survey. We’re grateful for your responses. [Read more]

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   Checking in with Second Tongue
   Fictionaut Five: Kirk Farber
   Luna Digest, 2/16
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Never, would I ever go so far as to say I favor one group over another. Never would I do that. I would tell you that the Second Tongue Fictionaut Group includes members whose first languages are but are not limited to Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Greek, Dutch, French and Malaysian. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Five: Kirk Farber
   Luna Digest, 2/16
   Fictionaut Faves, 2/15

Kirk Farber is the author of the debut novel Postcards from a Dead Girl (Harper Perennial 2010). Postcards is a March 2010 “Indie Next” selection, and was previously a semi-finalist in the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. [

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with Hypertext Fiction

As usual, the recent issue of Cave Wall has some wonderful poems in it, such as Jennifer Atkinson’s “A Leaf from the Book of Cities.” You can read Atkinson’s poem in its entirety on Luna Park (”The city, grateful for distraction, / applauds, laughs, oohs and ahs”). [Read more]

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   Checking in with Hypertext Fiction
   Line Breaks: “Pink” by Terese Svoboda
   Fictionaut Five: Jen Michalski

In “The Way It Smelled” by Dylan Nice, Buster, a CVS clerk, loses his virginity to Eleanor, a sour-smelling girl with one pink eye. A simple enough premise, but Dylan makes the story idiosyncratic, funny, sweet, innocent, and, above all, awkward to the point of cringe. [Read more]

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   Checking in with Hypertext Fiction
   Line Breaks: “Pink” by Terese Svoboda
   Fictionaut Five: Jen Michalski

When I think about HyperText from a New Media standpoint, I can’t help but nod toward the Infrarealists, the Flux Movement, old h4×0rz, new ways of communicating writing, and David Foster Wallace. In a story, if a word which can be clicked on is linked to another porthole of information, our conscious is re-directed to that footnote. The question then becomes is HyperText a means of distraction, or a means of elaborating on information? [Read more]

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   Line Breaks: “Pink” by Terese Svoboda
   Fictionaut Five: Jen Michalski
   Luna Digest, 2/9
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