Ben & Winslow
Our Burning Planet
Sometimes I feel like the world really is on fire. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the year, that was literally true in Australia, and 2020 has been relentless with the amount of upheaval, both good and bad, that has taken place–and the year isn’t even half over!
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- “Praise for the New Short Story Collection SCINTILLAE by Clive Branigan,” by Rick Kast
- “Former New Radicals Frontman Kicks Ass Again,” by Sean Pravica
- Our Burning Planet
- “Tough Love,” by Amanda Woodard
- Space Food
- “Under New Management,” by David Cook
- “How to Create Creativity: A Step-by-Step Approach, ” by Charis
- Pier Pressure
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- Once Bitten
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Defenestration: April 2020
Remember last year, specifically December 2019, when we were looking forward to 2020 and all the magic associated with a new decade? And then remember when 2020 showed up and Australia immediately burst into flames, and we thought nothing could possibly get worse than this? Boy, was that ever a mistake. I think we tend
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Defenestration: December 2019
Another year is drawing to a close, and that means we’ve got another fresh issue of Defenestration to share with you (and possibly your family, but not small children, thank you). But we’ve also reached the end of a decade, which is unbeleivable to me, because (1) I have no concept of time and (2) I don’t age. I’m almost exactly like Santa Claus, except don’t have a beard or a belly or a red suit, and I’ve never met an elf except for that one time at the Lord of the Rings convention.
Defenestration: August 2019
Looks like it’s time for another fun-filled issue of Defenestration! That’s assuming you’re into the kind of fun me and Eileen have planned for you, which consists of the eight short stories and three poems below. When the April 2019 issue dropped, I made a joke on Twitter assuring everyone that the issue did not
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Nonfiction
“Tough Love,” by Amanda Woodard “I’ve always loved you, Jessica,” I type in the messaging app of my friend’s iPod Touch. “I won’t let anyone get in the way of our love.” Although Jessica and I did make out once, I’m not in love with her. I’m writing to her under the clever alias “Jason Smith” because my friend, Ceci, and I are bored.
Fake Nonfiction
“Praise for the New Short Story Collection SCINTILLAE by Clive Branigan,” by Rick Kast “A drinking buddy turned me on to these stories. I looked for the book after we’d been out bar hopping but couldn’t find it. Barnes and Noble said they could order it. I didn’t know much about chinchillas before the book arrived. Fascinating!”
Fiction
“Thirsty Work,” by Robert Garnham And thence did God see fit to make the top step of the main monastery staircase a little wonky, and he saw that it was wonky, and in terms of health and safety legislation, it wasn’t very good.
‘Mother Superior, on her last visit, almost lost her step’, Brother Hilarious reminded the Head Monk. ‘Do you remember all of those curse words? Never heard anything like it’.
‘Ah yes. The blue nun’, Abbot Skerswell said.
Poetry
“The Raving,” by Mary Cresswell I let my midnight dreams explore
what I had never dared before–
some fowl what I did see before
reclining quaint as once of yore.
Ben & Winslow
Our Burning Planet Sometimes I feel like the world really is on fire. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the year, that was literally true in Australia, and 2020 has been relentless with the amount of upheaval, both good and bad, that has taken place–and the year isn’t even half over!
