@Jaxonpool: Coming Out Monologues • Lusk reviews Sisters • Astrocolor: “Dudeist Christmas” • Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, Issue 543 •
A Key of Awesome Christmas Spectacular, from Barely Productions, Dec. 19↓
Christmas Spectacular – Alt Link
What’s Your Story, from Coming Out Monologues Jacksonville, Dec. 17 ↓
Music from August’s List: Astrocolor: “A Dudeist Christmas (Silent Night), and Bemyoda, Charlie Cunningham, Yumi Zouma, Painted Palms, St. Lucia, ABRA ⇓
Music videos from August’s List — Alt link
August’s List: Music videos uploaded within the previous two weeks. This site fundraises for the DLC Nurse & Learn in Murray Hill. Watch & listen
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“LOCAL GIFTS ONLY!” (Dec. 11), by BRENTLEYSTEAD. Somewhere in the City: People, places, and happenings in Jacksonville. This site’s goal is to help ignite the growth of a proactive community. Read
The Talon Review: Clawing at Craft (Fall, 2015). Stories and poems by Katie Cavanaugh, Alice Shinkos, Leonard Owens III,Jacquelyn Meisburg, Phillip Wenturine, Alonzo Byas, Richard Sell, Trevor Walsh, Gina Olson, Catherine Tatem, Stuart Dybek / Tyler Norris, Cassie Hottenstein, Sarah Boyko, Andres Fernandez-Morrell; The Talon Review
“YOU SHOULD PROBABLY LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS OF SISTERS“ (Dec. 20). Panned Review, by Jacob Lusk. Film reviews by a Jacksonville movie-reviewing fiend and English teacher. Read
“Helpful Hints for Properly Celebrating Smartass Cripple Appreciation Month” (Dec. 19). Smart Ass Cripple, by Mike Ervin. Expressing pain through sarcasm since 2010. Voted the World’s Biggest Smart Ass by J.D. Power and Associates. Read
“And now for something completely different” (Dec. 20). Calvin’s Story, by Christy Shake. Epilepsy & beyond: a mother’s journal. A mother’s journal of the anguish, grief, joy, and triumph shared with her chronically ill son. Christy and Calvin live in Maine. Read
“Those four little words” (Dec. 19). Maggie World, by Sally Coghlan McDonald. Normalizing the abnormal. Read
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Homesick Redux: The 2nd Fiction Fix Novella Award goes to Homesick Redux by Daniel Coshnear. Read it here online for free for the first two months, or buy a copy now at Lulu for $6.95.
“Homesickness attacks the lungs first…” Daniel Coshnear takes difficult matters of the heart and weaves a beautiful nonlinear storyline through the life of Reggie, a young husband and father, whose mother is dying. To put one’s finger on home and what causes homesickness, the sadness that causes us to long for someplace that will make everything better. Come to find out home is love. And “love is a two-stroke engine” of perfect compression and combustion with a great deal of exhaust and fumes in the mix. A delight to read.” —Raleigh Rand, author of Brightleaf: A Novel
Eat & Gargoyle Magazine: A Jacksonville literary magazine published by Mark Ari: “I’m delighted to announce a new EAT Release in collaboration with Gargoyle Magazine. Gargoyle, based in Washington D.C. and edited by poet Richard Peabody, is one of the longest running and most respected independent journals in the country.” Read
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Mudlark, edited by Dr. William Slaughter. This is an electronic journal of poetry and poetics. Dr. Slaughter is Professor Emeritus of UNF’s English department. Read
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