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Issue #1

“The patient in the other bed didn’t seem to have any visitors either.”
-David Markson

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David Markson’s First Sentence: David Marskon is the author of Wittgenstein’s Mistress, which David Foster Wallace called “pretty much the high point of experimental fiction this century,” and, most recently, The Last Novel. He is anxious to hear from gorgeous, wealthy widows who have recently retired as general practitioners.

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Catalog Notes for the Secession by Rudy Rucker: An artist unknown to the author asked him to write some copy for an exhibition catalog. The author promised something weird and irrelevant and was told this would be fine. Minds were changed; the copy was not.

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The Account by Brendan Byrne: This is first chapter of a novel to which a year of research, countless man-hours, at least two hundred pages of deleted digital ink, and lots of the author slamming his head into brick walls were devoted. It will never be written.

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Fairytale of New York by David Larson: This piece was originally supposed to be twice as long, involving an aunt who took her own life and the whiskey-fueled breakdown of yet another family Christmas. However, the author feels like he can’t pull it off without cheapening a life-changing event. He doesn’t know if he’ll ever get the nerve to finish writing about it.

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Stalk by Tommy Wallach: The author composed this piece quite some time ago as a kind of fictional love letter to a girl whom he probably would’ve stalked, were he a stalker. When it was finished, it was sent to her. Unsurprisingly, this resulted in one of his most straightforward literary rejections ever.

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Photography by Jordana Zeldin: Jordana Zeldin is Calgary-born, Providence-raised, and Brooklyn-based photographer.  She got her BA in Film and American Studies from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, a city that according to Wikipedia, is “sometimes portrayed in the UK media as a place which is remote, unsophisticated, gauche, and out-of-step with national trends.” She is the author of the book Subversions; her website is www.jordanazeldin.com.

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