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Winter 2021: Errors of the Gods.

 

   Even the gods mess up.

SPOT, by Tod Davies.
The western gods err in pretending there are no dogs in the afterlife . . .
THE LION IN LOVE, by Rose Jermusyk.
And in denying love where love so obviously is found . . .
HIMMLER’S FIRST BLASPHEMY, by Sean Murphy.
But it may be even gods become tragically distracted . . .
IN THE GRASS, WHETHER TALL OR SHORT, by Chris Farago.
Leaving humans to take the rough with the smooth . . .
NAZCA, by Robin Wyatt Dunn.
As humans imitate the distracted gods . .
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WIRES CROSSED, by Ron Singer.
Even the phone company gets above itself . . .

HOW THE GODS BROKE THE SKY, by Bruce E.R. Thompson.
But for the really big errors, the gods win every time
. . .
MR. SATURN, by T.C. Eisele.
Check out a dinner party on Mt Olympus and see . . .

THE SINS OF GOD, by Benjamin White.
Or a less comic god closer to home, alas . . .
I SLEEP WITH SMOKE, by Barry Vitcov.
And the errors in a human landscape . . .

THE NEW KING, by Mark Robinson.
An error letting humans choose their own god . . .

OBSERVATIONS O’ALL THE OBSERVERS OBSERVED, by Jim Meirose.
Until the error becomes tangled beyond saving . . .

ROSEBUD, by David Selzer .
With rich men imagining they are gods . . .
THE FORCED UNVEILING
, by Brian Griffith .
Leaders too . . .
A SUBWAY MUSICIAN, by John Grey.
Just when you think hope is lost,  a song erases an error . . .

THE YEAR OF NO EMPERORS, by David D. Horowitz.
Hope lifts its head even in winter. . .

FALLEN REDWOOD, by Marissa Bell Toffoli.
And Nature redresses the errors of the gods. . .

The TODBLOG says Forward March and time for all contributors to consider what comes next . . . JAM TODAY  is very into feeding our dogs. . .

This issue’s picture courtesy of EAP’s own Mike Madrid. Perfect as usual, Mike.

The next issue is 1 April, and it’s the SPRING 2021: IMPERFECT WORLD ORDER issue…contributions by 1 March, please…

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In This Issue.

  • Who Was Dorothy?
  • Those Evil Spirits.
  • The Screaming Baboon.
  • Her.
  • A Tale of Persistence.
  • A Conversation with Steve Hugh Westenra.
  • Person Number Twelve.
  • Dream Shapes.
  • Cannon Beach.
  • The Muse.
  • Spring.
  • The Greatness that was Greece.
  • 1966, NYC; nothing like it.
  • Sun Shower.
  • The Withering Weight of Being Perceived.
  • Broken Clock.
  • Confession.
  • Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse.
  • Sometimes you die, I mean that people do.
  • True (from “My Life with Dogs”).
  • Fragmentary musings on birds and bees.
  • 12 Baking Essentials to Always Have in Your Poetry.
  • Broad Street.
  • A Death in Alexandria.
  • My Forked Tongue.
  • Swan Lake.
  • Long Division.
  • Singing against the muses.
  • Aphorisms from “What Remains to Be Said”.

In The News.

That cult classic pirate/sci fi mash up GREENBEARD, by Richard James Bentley, is now a rollicking audiobook, available from Audible.com. Narrated and acted by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio, you’ll be overwhelmed by the riches and hilarity within.

“Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges is your typical seventeenth-century Cambridge-educated lawyer turned Caribbean pirate, as comfortable debating the virtues of William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and compound interest as he is wielding a cutlass, needling archrival Henry Morgan, and parsing rum-soaked gossip for his next target. When a pepper monger’s loose tongue lets out a rumor about a fleet loaded with silver, the Captain sets sail only to find himself in a close encounter of a very different kind.

After escaping with his sanity barely intact and his beard transformed an alarming bright green, Greybagges rallies The Ark de Triomphe crew for a revenge-fueled, thrill-a-minute adventure to the ends of the earth and beyond.

This frolicsome tale of skullduggery, jiggery-pokery, and chicanery upon Ye High Seas is brimming with hilarious puns, masterful historical allusions, and nonstop literary hijinks. Including sly references to Thomas Pynchon, Treasure Island, 1940s cinema, and notable historical figures, this mélange of delights will captivate readers with its rollicking adventure, rich descriptions of food and fashion, and learned asides into scientific, philosophical, and colonial history.”

THE SUPERGIRLS is back, revised and updated!

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In The News.

Newport Public Library hosted a three part Zoom series on Visionary Fiction, led by Tod.  

And we love them for it, too.

The first discussion was a lively blast. You can watch it here. The second, Looking Back to Look Forward can be seen here.

The third was the best of all. Visions of the Future, with a cast of characters including poets, audiobook artists, historians, Starhawk, and Mary Shelley. Among others. Link is here.

In the News.

SNOTTY SAVES THE DAY is now an audiobook, narrated by Last Word Audio’s mellifluous Colby Elliott. It launched May 10th, but for a limited time, you can listen for free with an Audible trial membership. So what are you waiting for? Start listening to the wonders of how Arcadia was born from the worst section of the worst neighborhood in the worst empire of all the worlds since the universe began.

In The News.

If you love audio books, don’t miss the new release of REPORT TO MEGALOPOLIS, by Tod Davies, narrated by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio. The tortured Aspern Grayling tries to rise above the truth of his own story, fighting with reality every step of the way, and Colby’s voice is the perfect match for our modern day Dr. Frankenstein.

In The News.

Mike Madrid dishes on Miss Fury to the BBC . . .

Tod on the Importance of Visionary Fiction

Check out this video of “Beyond Utopia: The Importance of Fantasy,” Tod’s recent talk at the tenth World-Ecology Research Network Conference, June 2019, in San Francisco. She covers everything from Wind in the Willows to the work of Kim Stanley Robinson, with a look at The History of Arcadia along the way. As usual, she’s going on about how visionary fiction has an important place in the formation of a world we want and need to have.

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