My story "The Real and True Story" appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Red Wheelbarrow, and Randolph Splitter and the fine folks at Red Wheelbarrow recently updated the website and posted the story's full text.
If you'd like to, you can read it here.
And if you're one of those people who actually goes and reads it: I'm in the process of doubling this story's length. As it is, the piece kind of pretends to be the real and true story, which initially was an exercise in ethos. In recent drafts, I'm playing with the real and true story a little more, and it's becoming a story I truly love working on.
I think I may end up submitting the final version to a chapbook contest or two, depending on how it all turns out.
10.22.2007
Highlights
My wife sent me a call a couple weeks back for a contest hosted by Highlights Magazine. They're looking for stories of fewer than 800 words. The theme: The Future.
I didn't think I'd actually work on a story for kids, but a day or two later, I ended up writing six hundred or so words of the beginning to some story. For fun, here's the first paragraph:
Carlos Padilla had always imagined what Rio, Illinois, would look like in the year 2998. Rio was the Spanish word for river, but in Illinois, they pronounced it rye-oh. Carlos thought rivers were sometimes beautiful, especially at night, when he and his parents drove on a bridge over one. The lights were like stars on the water, and the river, it was like another solar system, right there beneath him. He could have sat in the back seat of his parents' car and stared at the river forever.
I didn't think I'd actually work on a story for kids, but a day or two later, I ended up writing six hundred or so words of the beginning to some story. For fun, here's the first paragraph:
Carlos Padilla had always imagined what Rio, Illinois, would look like in the year 2998. Rio was the Spanish word for river, but in Illinois, they pronounced it rye-oh. Carlos thought rivers were sometimes beautiful, especially at night, when he and his parents drove on a bridge over one. The lights were like stars on the water, and the river, it was like another solar system, right there beneath him. He could have sat in the back seat of his parents' car and stared at the river forever.
SNL Digital Short
I wanted to post a different digital short, but apparently, NBC isn't letting the stuff stay up on YouTube.
This one probably won't last all that long, but I'm putting it up anyway, because Andy Samberg, he's awesome.
Public Service Announcement
From Avery: An Anthology of New Fiction:
November 3rd, 8:00 p.m. at Stain Bar in beautiful Brooklyn, NY.
Avery will have a reading/fundraiser in order to kick off our second issue! Come hear Leigh Newman read from her story "How Monster is Monster," which appeared in Avery 1. And stay for Jonny Diamond (real name), who will read from his story, "Notes on an Elevator Man: A Story in Thirty Chapters," which appears in Avery 2!
We promise action, adventure and, best of all, words!
From me: Avery has excerpts of issue two's stories up at their website, along with the new issue's gorgeous cover. I implore each and every one of you to go and check it out. And while you're there, do what you can to support Adam, Steph, and Andrew. They are cool, cool people, and they're doing all they can to put good stories out into the world.
Don't let this kind of deed go unrecognized.
November 3rd, 8:00 p.m. at Stain Bar in beautiful Brooklyn, NY.
Avery will have a reading/fundraiser in order to kick off our second issue! Come hear Leigh Newman read from her story "How Monster is Monster," which appeared in Avery 1. And stay for Jonny Diamond (real name), who will read from his story, "Notes on an Elevator Man: A Story in Thirty Chapters," which appears in Avery 2!
We promise action, adventure and, best of all, words!
From me: Avery has excerpts of issue two's stories up at their website, along with the new issue's gorgeous cover. I implore each and every one of you to go and check it out. And while you're there, do what you can to support Adam, Steph, and Andrew. They are cool, cool people, and they're doing all they can to put good stories out into the world.
Don't let this kind of deed go unrecognized.
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