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Looks like Winslow is making clones of himself again. Flamethrowers at the ready, everyone!
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- “How to Write a Perfect Short Story,” by Tyler Plofker
- This Again
- “Break On Through To The Other Side,” by Jane Donaldson
- “Friendly Advice On How Not To Treat People Like Ignorant Assholes,” by Rick Kast
- “Eclipse,” by Ron Sanders
- “Mouse,” by Sonja Anderson
- Budgie Smuggler
- “All Applicants Considered,” by J. Mira Emory
- Defenestration: August 2022
- “Menelaus and the Fake Helen,” by Teresa Spencer
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Defenestration: August 2022
Prepare yourselves, people of the internet, for the August 2022 issue of Defenestration! How are you all doing? Good? Staying hydrated?
This month’s issue is totally weird. I’ve mentioned this before, but it seems like writers are all part of the same strange zeitgeist during each of our reading periods, and Eileen and I see very clear themes and subject matter in many of the poems and stories submitted. Sometimes you can chalk that up to what the market’s doing; some magazine or anthology might have just concluded its selections for a themed issue, and now everyone’s trying to find a home for the very niche story they wrote. That’s only sometimes, though. More often than not, writers and poets are just breathing the same inspirational air.
Defenestration: April 2022
Welcome, welcome, to the April 2022 issue of Defenestration! It might be spring, but the weather has gotten cold and wet and miserable around Defenestration HQ, which means we all had to dig our sweaters out of storage and made the tough decision to burn our charming wooden deck furniture for warmth. Nature is against us, friends, but that hasn’t stopped the latest issue from dropping right on time.
Defenestration: December 2021
Welcome, one and all, the the December 2021 issue of Defenestration: the literary magazine that has been dedicated to humor for so long that we stopped keeping track. (That’s a lie. Eileen has been keeping track. One deep scar on the wall of her living room for every month Defenestration has existed. It looks as if a cat the size of a Volkswagen has been trying to claw its way out of her home.)
Nonfiction
“Break On Through To The Other Side,” by Jane Donaldson 1968 was the year I became a spiritual medium. I was a nine year old with time on my hands. Our parents fed us, clothed us and kept us on the straight and narrow, but orchestrating after school activities was not in their job description. Carefully choreographed play dates were nonexistent. In fact even the word “play date” was nonexistent. No one cared what we did between the hours of 3PM and 5PM as long as we did it quietly while not wearing our good school clothes.
Fake Nonfiction
“How to Write a Perfect Short Story,” by Tyler Plofker 1. Go into the woods and find a tree that’s been growing for a bit, but not too long, but still for a while.
2. Rub a pencil on the bark of the tee.
3. Make yourself cry green tears and fill them with the bark.
Fiction
“Menelaus and the Fake Helen,” by Teresa Spencer Menelaus’s hoary beard is stained red with Trojan blood. Lo, how he sits grieving at the prow of the flagship of a thousand ships, the craggy furrows of his brow deepened with the loss of his brethren, of Patroclus, of dishonored Ajax brought low by his own hand, of even the mighty Achilles. His powerful shoulders bend under the weight of a ten years’ war.
Nearby, his wife Helen is moodily gazing at the horizon, smoking a jay.
Poetry
“Grocery Boy,” by Kim Malinowski The geek I call “grocery boy” at Kroger is named Daniel.
No one nicknamed him or if they did it was Mars or Pluto
or Too-Smart-For-His-Own-Good.
Ben & Winslow
This Again Looks like Winslow is making clones of himself again. Flamethrowers at the ready, everyone!
