I read the dedication only after finishing the last word on the last page of the book. I’ve gulped the novel down in one sitting, assisted by the uninterrupted nature of the trans-Atlantic flight...the Drollerie Press entitled Things That Go BUMP in the Night. She is also a Story of the Week editor at Narrative Magazine . Originally published at Diet Soap . Please leave any comments there.

“I’d rather be a dark present than a dark future.” –Marieta in The Garden of Eden I. From K-12 (and even today, now and then) my last name would be mistakenly written down or called out as...the American Book Review. This essay is a chapter in his forthcoming book THE REFLEXIVE GAZE OF CRITIFICTION ( Guide Dog Books ). Originally published at Diet Soap . Please leave any comments there.

Morgan Gibson (MG) Ken Knabb (KK) David Meltzer (DM) James Brook (JB) DM: Ken, you knew Rexroth in the sixties? KK: Yes. Not very well, but I got to talk with him quite a few times... best known for his translations of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. His website is bopsecrets.org . Originally published at Diet Soap . Please leave any comments there.

Some years ago, in some obscure book, you had come across a mention of - if your memory serves you right - a meeting between a woman without a future and a man without a past. (Or was it the other...the night, a woman without a future had become a man without a past. Here then is an idea for the story, Jay’s and yours. Originally published at Diet Soap . Please leave any comments there.

“Tell me about your book,” says Kitty, stroking the cat lying upon her lap. “The book is a Menippean satire, with countless lowlife characters, a Satyricon for the twenty-first century, the influences...looking for the cat. “One,” I answer. END paul kavanagh is happy. his wife is happy. together they are happy. Originally published at Diet Soap . Please leave any comments there.

Q: Chelsea Martin, your story “Dream Date” that appeared in Diet Soap was amusing and ironic. Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian scholar and Lacanian Marxist theorizes that the supposed critical distance...sink that you need to go scrub immediately, do it hard and make it shiny or else.” I consider myself a Diet Soap author. Originally published at Diet Soap . Please leave any comments there.

Use the transcripts of your online chats to inspire dialogue. Speculate how he may have behaved had this conversation been face to face. Would he reach out to touch you? Would his green eyes flash...in haste, you wrote in panic. And now he wishes you to write no more. This is not a story but this is the end. END Originally published at Diet Soap . Please leave any comments there.

In his bookshop, a small store stuck in the side of a bluff, he catalogued and ordered books as he thought they should be ordered. Loras received his books with solicitation slips titled “Non-Fiction”... were you the one putting the books in the wrong place? It’s okay, just let me know?” “How would you know anyway?” END Originally published at Diet Soap . Please leave any comments there.

Jeffrey Ford’s short story “The Drowned Life” is the story of a bailout gone wrong. It first appeared in the Night Shade Books anthology “Eclipse,” is now the title story of Ford’s 2008 collection...less you think about it the better,” she said. With the “Drowned Life” Ford proves that this sentiment is exactly wrong. Originally published at Diet Soap . Please leave any comments there.

Dearest Reader, My name is Jon Harahan. I was born Jonathan C. Harahan. Don’t ask what the C stands for because I am not going to tell you. Most people just call me Jon. I graduated from Shippensburg...or metafictional writer and the art from his fine novel is typical of the kind of art associated with 70s metafiction Originally published at Diet Soap . Please leave any comments there.