The Writing Disorder

Marathon Runner: Grant Garson – a Film by Michelle Swartz

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New spring 2012 issue now available for your reading pleasure

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SPRING forward. The Writing Disorder is now in its third year. And every issue gets better and better. We now feature novel excerpts. If you’re working on a novel with a self- contained chapter, send it to us. This issue features some very talented writers. The stories and poems collected here are some of the finest we’ve read. So enjoy the work. —C.E. Lukather, Editor

IN THIS ISSUE: NEW FICTION
THE PUZZLE by Eliezra Schaffzin
MRS. MacMILLAN’S GARDEN by Melissa Palmer
DEEP TISSUE by Pamela Lindsey Dreizen
THE LOCAVORE’S TALE by Claire Noonan
IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED IN NIAGARA
by Ben Orlando

NEW INTERVIEW
Author of new Thomas Pynchon book, DAVID COWART

NEW POETRY
EQUINOX by Gale Acuff
NECESSARY PARTS by Susan King
JUNG’S POETRY by Ivy Page

NEW NONFICTION
HIPSTERS:
A SPECIAL SPIRITUALITY
by Lily Murphy

NEW PAINTINGS
PLANETARY CLIMATE
by Leonard Kogan

NEW FICTION
A GRIM, DARK BAR by Joe Kilgore
MASTER OF NONE by Francis Chung
SUPER COOL FUN SET
by Kevin Ridgeway
ATLANTIC CITY, 1980
by Karoline Barrett

NEW POETRY
LOTOPHAGI by Sonali Gurpur
THE DITCH by Holly Day

NEW NOVEL EXCERPT
THE ALLIGATOR POND
by G.L. Williams

NEW MEMOIR EXCERPT
DEMONS
by Henry F. Tonn

NEW ARTWORK
D’OGOERECTUS
by Orlin Oroschakoff
DEATH BY ACTION ICON
by Chad Kaplan

Soey Milk Artwork Featured in Winter 2011 Edtion

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WINTER 2011 ISSUE NOW ONLINE

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WINTER arrives with a sense of anticipation—for the coming year, the holidays, or a good book you’ve been waiting to read. What makes a good story? It’s often something you weren’t expecting, along with a good ending. Everything has an end, but some endings are better than others. We hope you enjoy all the work in this issue, and that when you get to the end, it was better than you expected. —C.E. Lukather, Editor

IN THIS ISSUE: NEW FICTION
MISSING IN THE MOUNTAINS by Greg November
THE REAL HOLLY by Ashley Inguanta
HOW TO CUT by Brooke Kwikkel
ZEITGEIST by Tegan Elizabeth Webb

NEW INTERVIEW
Writer/Editor, HOWARD JUNKER

NEW POETRY
A GRIM TALE by Geordie de Boer
A THOUSAND BLACKBIRDS FALL DEAD by Amanda Hempel

NEW NONFICTION
JACARANDA by Shay Belisle
BOOK REVIEWING DO’s & DON’Ts by Emily-Jane Hills Orford

NEW ARTWORK
Soft Lips, Long Lashes by Soey Milk

MORE NEW FICTION
MINE RESCUE by Ruth Webb
LODGING by Edward Wells II
SPACE BAR by Tantra Bensko
RUDY THE BANG’S DRUMROLL by Keith G. Laufenbarg
BLUE ROOM WITH WOMAN (1954) by Robert Sachs

MORE NEW POETRY
PSALM XIL by Lisa Sisler
A STRANGE ROMANCE by Garth Pavell

NEW INTERVIEW
MFA PROFILE: Emily Kiernan

NEW PHOTOGRAPHY
SALVATION MOUNTAIN by Ashley Inguanta
DEATH AND DEDICATION by Brett Stout

BOOK REVIEW
Amanda Field reviews AN OLD JUNKER

READ THE NEW FALL 2011 ISSUE OF THE WRITING DISORDER

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FALL is upon us, and so is the new issue of The Writing Disorder.

We have a great new lineup of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art, including an interview with author Tina May Hall.

Check it out when you have a chance. Thanks.

— C.E. Lukather, Editor

NEW FICTION
LE CAFE DE LA CHATTE NOIRE by Patrick Thomas Henry
THE DAY THE TOMATO PLANTS DIED by Matt Thomas
13 DAYS AT LAUGHING HERON CAMP by Tracy Auerbach
THE ART OF PEACE by Marko Fong

NEW INTERVIEW
Writer, TINA MAY HALL

NEW POETRY
YOU COULD FREEZE AN EGG ON IT by Suzanne Marie Hopcroft
CANCER by Aaron Poller

NEW NONFICTION
PAST & PRESENT IMPERFECT by William Henderson
OCTOPUS by Henry F. Tonn

NEW FICTION
X AND Y by A. Lazakis
A BROOKLYN WINTER by Gina Goldblatt
THE MAP by M.E. McMullen
AN ARCHIVE OF PARANORMAL INQUIRY INTO COPING by Sarah Gancher Sarai

NEW POETRY
SHIRLEY IS PRETTY IN AGONY by Purdey Krieden
THE FLOODGATES OF THE PRONOUN by C. Derick Varn

NEW ARTWORK
JESSICA OF THE SCHOOLYARD by Karl Wills
TO LET THE MIND EASE… by Eleanor Bennett
CARNIVALESQUE by Carl Lozada

NEW SUMMER 2011 EDITION NOW AVAILABLE

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The New Summer edition of The Writing Disorder is now online. Please have a look when you get a chance. There are many new works of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art. This piece is by Nicole Bruckman.

NEW SUMMER ISSUE OUT – END OF JUNE

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The new summer edition of The Writing Disorder will be out at the end of June.

Everyone who contributed to this issue will be notified prior to the publication date,
so you can review your work.

Thanks for your patience.

From Virginia Woolf

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“I do not wish you to infer … that the novelist is in a perpetual state of inspiration. I mean, rather, that the novelist is in a perpetual state of lethargy. He wishes (it is his desire) to be as unconscious as possible. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day and month after month, so that nothing may break the illusion, that nothing may disturb the flow, that nothing may interrupt the mysterious nosings about, feelings round, darts and dashes and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive fish the imagination.”

—Virginia Woolf

Francesca Lia Block Interview in Summer Edition

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The Writing Disorder summer edition will feature an interview with Francesca Lia Block, author of such classics as Weetzie Bat, Goat Girls, Beautiful Boys, and The Rose and The Beast.