It’s my first lesson of the morning, but I’m already in a rough mood. Teaching seven or eight lessons day after day is like driving to Seattle and back on a daily basis. Given my random crop of students, it’s like spending each day with a series of cabbies whose skills you don’t quite trust. [...]
Archive for July, 2010
The Little Playah by Thomas Sullivan
Posted in non-fiction on July 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Poetry #123
Posted in Poetry on July 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Poetry #123 brings you the voices of established and emerging writers. Ananya S. Guha, Alicia Hoffman, Michael Mc Aloran, April-May March, Laura Whelton, David McLean, Judith Fanny Rose, Sami Schalk and Mark Vogel have all made this great issue possible. I hope you all enjoy my first issue as Poetry Editor for Gloom Cupboard. for [...]
Odd Couplings by Gil A. Waters
Posted in non-fiction on July 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My mother eloquently captured the incongruous nature of her marriage to my father with a powerfully mundane anecdote: her own mother, dirt-poor Irish immigrant though she was, offered her every penny of her paltry life savings to not marry my dad. For my maternal grandmother, an ever-suffering Catholic from the land of perpetual potato blight [...]
Interzones by Neil Rothstein
Posted in non-fiction on July 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
a terrible decision has been made, the outline of discovery made, intricacies, delaying the downfall, dream state and reality merging into one, dreams of murder by strangling, a view of violence and guilt, but still, a delay in proceedings causing anxiety in long distance trawler fishermen, although they certainly will deny this.a terrible decision has [...]
From the Desk of the Poetry Editor
Posted in Editorial, Poetry on July 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Greetings all. My name is Joseph M. Gant. In addition to being Gloom Cupboard’s new poetry editor, I have been, and still am, Poet in Residence and Poetry Editor for Sex and Murder Magazine as well as a contributor for Outsider Writers Collective. In the coming weeks, I will be going through a large number [...]
Poetry #122
Posted in Poetry on July 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dorla’s note: I have been poetry editor at Gloom Cupboard for a little over a year. I’ve had the opportunity to work with some wonderful co-editors and read some fantastic poetry, as well as learn a few things about being an editor. But even good things come to an end. I am no longer able [...]
Prose #120
Posted in Fiction on July 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Issue 120 of fabulous fiction brings you head trips. Are you really who you think you are? Kick back and let the words of Blake Cooper, Susan Tepper, Michael Solender and Erik Smetana insert rainbows and reverie into your brain. Double back for another dose of daydreams with this issues Editor’s Pick for Must Read [...]
Review of David McLean’s Pushing Lemmings
Posted in Reviews on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pushing Lemmings By David McLean Reviewed by Joseph M. Gant “my blessed devils” i hope the blessed devils and accursed bacteria that live in me scratch runes on my hollow sounding bones that the replete ghouls may read a lesson of profoundest negativity when they plow through the meat machine me and see nothing inside [...]
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