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Fiction: Afterlife (Chapter 5)

by Mike Monroe December 12, 2013

If you’ve never read Afterlife before, click here to go to the first chapter. Art by John Blaszczyk Afterlife is a sci fi/western action serial published every other week. Join us in a post-apocalyptic journey through a future where life has become little more than a struggle for survival. However, where there’s life, there’s always […]

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Afterlife Table of Contents

by Mike Monroe December 5, 2013

Art by John Blaszczyk Find the Volume 2 Table of Contents page here. Find the Volume 3 Table of Contents page here.  

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Fiction: Afterlife (Chapter 4)

by Mike Monroe November 27, 2013

If you’ve never read Afterlife before, click here to go to the first chapter. Art by John Blaszczyk Afterlife is a sci fi/western action serial published every other week. Join us in a post-apocalyptic journey through a future where life has become little more than a struggle for survival. However, where there’s life, there’s always […]

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Fiction: Afterlife (Chapter 3)

by Mike Monroe November 13, 2013

If you’ve never read Afterlife before, click here to go to the first chapter. Art by John Blaszczyk Afterlife is a sci fi/western action serial published every other week. Join us in a post-apocalyptic journey through a future where life has become little more than a struggle for survival. However, where there’s life, there’s always […]

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Fiction: Afterlife (Chapter 2)

by Mike Monroe October 30, 2013

If you’ve never read Afterlife before, click here to get started with the first chapter. Afterlife is a sci fi/western action serial published every other week. Join us in a post-apocalyptic journey through a future where life has become little more than a struggle for survival. However, where there’s life, there’s always hope.

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Fiction: Afterlife (Chapter 1)

by Mike Monroe October 16, 2013

Find the Table of Contents page here. The white dunes spread to the horizon, where their monotonous expanse joined with the stark sky.  The only boundaries of each were those placed by the limits of human sight.  Jemail Brate watched with squinting eyes as five small shapes approached, obscured by waves of heated air.  The […]

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David Foster Wallace – Death is not the End

by Tony Shea September 12, 2013

Today marks the anniversary of the death of David Foster Wallace. One of America’s bright and shining literary stars of the last fifty years, Wallace committed suicide at the age of 46. He’s probably best known for the phone book sized novel Infinite Jest, which you have casually mentioned to friends with literary inclinations that […]

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Making Fagen

by Christopher T. Wood May 8, 2013

Monologist Christopher T. Wood delves into dialogue and presents an ingenious meta prequel to the trailer for his screenplay, Fagen, depicting the pitch to the studio. Watch it, read it or both. TS

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Table of Contents Locks Horns with Wikipedia

by Tony Shea April 1, 2013

A new database of information is rising up to compete with Wikipedia. And it may just change all of our lives – or what we think of as our lives. While Wikipedia has become the leading source of information on the web, maintained and edited by a group of online volunteers, and free to the […]

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The Salvation Army (Montrose, Colorado – 1994)

by Tony Shea December 21, 2012

He is sick. Flu bug perhaps or food poisoning. Something has got down inside him and must run its course. He is giddy from it, like he’s been rocked in a boat. He plucks a used neck brace from an umbrella stand filled mostly with old crutches. He supposes the manufacturer would call the neck […]

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All God’s Creatures

by Tony Shea December 13, 2012

I worked as a leg-boner in a slaughterhouse the summer before I went to college. I was seventeen. The work was hard and brutal. You could smell the place for miles. The smell of shit and blood and rust. The smell of death. It made me puke the first week or so. And then I […]

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What Followed

by Thad Weitz December 3, 2012

It was around the second mile into the woods that Jack Dowter knew that he was being followed.  Without any evidence, it was a gut feeling so certain he knew he was right. He employed the tricks he had seen in movies: he would suddenly stop, so he could hear footsteps.  He heard nothing. He […]

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Kevin, Delmar and Murphy

by Tony Shea November 26, 2012

Kevin would sit by himself in a restaurant or coffee shop or library reading a dirty magazine, or a book with color photographs of the city medical examiner pulling someone’s big pink brain out like a magician with the rabbit. He would sit there calmly, quietly, without shame apparently, perusing each page like it was […]

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