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Okay. This is the remix. Han, you said it, sketched it, made it stick: fuck death. Today it’s the motto, the mantra, more. On tonight’s episode: Melissa Ginsburg deconstructs and extracts the ghosts from seemingly benign fragments like in the and even in; John Domini sits the kids down for a story to teach us how not to tell a story; Jason Fraley breaks our prayer, but we’re left feeling surprisingly grateful; Margaret Bashaar’s Viking ex wants his ear-spoon back; Allison Titus makes with the long-lost art of narwhal-whispering; Rachel Dacus turns a trip to the dentist into the stuff of gripping, shocking transformative myth; William Walsh twists the yiffniff of Calvin Trillin into maddeningly interrogatory spin-art; and, among many, many, MANY other delights, Matthew Derby puts the icing on this gray train with an excerpt from his new novel-in-progress, complete with Nauseateds, nanomeals and a basketball game that quickly devolves into an absurd, hilarious, horrifying sitch. So please, give the fourth a try. It’s weirder than the usual fare, but it lives, lives still, flourishing with unprecedented coils of inspired language and strange new people in strange new lands, and we love it, and you will, too.
Cover image “Fuck Death,” 2006, Copyright 2006 Han Hoogerbrugge. Used by permission. “Question: Can You Say Something Nice?” derived from If You Can’t Say Something Nice, Copyright 1987 Calvin Trillin. Used by permission of the author. |
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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