!!! CONTEST !!! CONTEST !!! CONTEST !!!
Be sure to order a copy of DZANC's Best of the Web 2009, edited by Lee K. Abbott and Nathan Leslie, featuring Claudia Smith's story "Babyfat" from NOÖ [8] and a pecan grove of awesome writing, including many NOÖ and Magic Helicopter Press authors.
Strapped for cash? Win a free BoTW 2009 by writing a 1 line sequel to any story or poem in the NOÖ archive. Post your entry in the comments section of this blog post. We'll pick our favorite and send that winner/wittier a free copy of BoTW 2009 and even some mystery swag. But act fast! Deadline: August 1st.
Again, here's the deal: 1 line sequel for 1 free copy! Pick any story or poem in the NOÖ archives and write a 1 line sequel. Post your entry in the comments section of this post. Deadline: August 1st. Our favorite will win a free BoTW 2009!
Boom! So easy. Go!
12 comments:
a 1 line sequel to (from issue 8)
Love Is
--K. Silem Mohammad
a translation of Ricardo Aleixo
Now becomes forever
and not as I imagined.
Morgan Harlow
Where I Am Right Now
--Patricia Parkinson
I reminded Shelby that Ringo is still alive. She bought a plane ticket.
1 line sequel to...
A Soldier Sways on a Swing- by Liz Gallagher:
"Staggering sanguine commas and colons across the TV screen, still sparking like pressed eyeballs, long after the power's gone."
one line sequel to Noah Cicero´s Two hard workers.
"Yosef has forgotten his past in concentration camp, concentrates in giving people what they need, quick and big profits, in his job as financial analyst in stock-market, and occasionally, behind his back, he is called neoliberal Nazi by his customers, who have been disapointed."
Rita Dahl
Finland
Addiction
--Deborah Blakely
Is pulling out the needle; pulling yourself up, and forgetting all the shit and blood and pain; is shining the world up and making it new.
[I Am a Lion Birthing a Kitten
-Evelyn Hampton]:
In some future time and place I meet a milkman who knows about a tidal wave headed straight for all my villages; I smash a bottle of half fat over his head and run until I taste something metallic and wrong.
One line (stanza) sequel to (from Issue Two)
Blind Sailor's Lament
by Jean Hendrickson
At night he retires with more sad thoughts / and he cannot help but sob / as he dreams of Brandy in the harbor town / and his nautical friend Spongebob
One-line(unit?) sequel to "The Ghost of Wells" by Alex Burford.
Noam Chomsky couldn't build himself / a home, and he couldn't die inside.
TICKLED PINK
for Darby Larson
...
or drown in pink.
But What Happened to We the Astronauts?
--Bryan Coffelt
We cleared the space between the salt and fingers, laying our hands upon it space above us and any love.
One line (stanza) sequel to Arnt Sneve, photographer.
This planet full of angry sadness,
mere tear, cry for help and moan -
has beauty - all reflections,
which ban us - life of lone.
1 line sequel from Antonios Maltezos "Garbage"
That night around the fire, their mother jiggled her sneakered foot and toed the dirt with her bare other, while singing, a pleasant song they all enjoyed, one she reserved only for the best dinners.
Stefanie Freele
Post a Comment