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Our second issue features, among many, many other things, five new poems by Michael Burkard that weren’t necessarily intended as a series, yet seem to draw from and call out to each other in surprising ways; the opening chapter of what promises to be an amazing tale from Tom Whalen which, should one dare and try to classify it, one might cite at some future date as an early example of the “university-intrigue-meets-surrealist-comic-nightmare”; and the first known fiction publication in all of history from an inventive young gentleman called Michael Scotto. Its cover artwork, a depiction of strands of hair emerging impossibly from the reels of a audio cassette, was designed and executed in one hour, while the two-part series finale of 80s-era sitcom “Full House” was broadcast in an adjacent room; there is a possibility that this seemingly-irrelevant detail could, in fact, have thoroughly informed the work as you see it today. We recommend asking someone to read this book to you while you drive your car.
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Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our interest is in bringing you, reader, the very best in contemporary creative writing, full stop. Our goals are for each issue of our journal to submerge you in a birthing tank for gelatinous language monsters, young masses of tentacular foci undulating as directed (in all, at once) by our eclectic stable of contributors; for each new book to seduce and ensnare you, sometimes intangibly, always undeniably; and for you, reader, to be able to draw at least one passage from our banks that prods your mind with a precision and power that feels as if it was written for your eyes alone. To wit and to whet, here is a snippet, a slight nip of our delicious lit mix: New and Upcoming afterpastures, by Claire Hero Caketrain Issue 05 Loving 5_Trope, AGNI, Barrow Street, Believer, Black Warrior, Born, Bound Off, Caffeine Destiny, Canarium, Conjunctions, Controlled Burn, Diagram, Double Room, Drunken Boat, Elimae, FC2, Finishing Line, Fishouse, Flood, Found, Fringe, Frostproof, Future Tense, Ghoti, Harpur Palate, Hobart, Jubilat, Mad Hatters’, Many Mountains Moving, Mid-American, NewPages, New Yinzer, New York Tyrant, Nidus, Nightboat, Noon, Obscure, Parsifal, Pebble Lake, PENNsound, Pudding House, Quick Fiction, Rattapallax, Redactions, Salt, SleepingFish, Spinning Jenny, Starcherone, Steel City Review, Titular, Ubu, Unicorn Mountain, Unsaid, Web del Sol Mourning 3rd Bed, Alterran, Deek, Melic, Press 62
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