November Links

First of all, don't forget to visit http://www.everydaypoets.com/ which is now offering a poem a day. A great variety of poems to move and entertain you. Leave our authors a comment and vote for your favourite poems.

And here are some offerings from me.
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue315/time_travelling.html
http://shortstory.us.com/2008/11/dance-by-oonah-v-joslin/#comment-8796
http://www.everydayfiction.com/sleight-of-hand-by-oonah-v-joslin/#comment-9906
http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/page/5/
http://ink-sweat-and-tears.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/11/6/3964885.html
http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/the-final-chapter/
http://staticmovement.com/orionandthedogs.htm
http://staticmovement.com/late.htm
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue312/grow_trees.html
http://www.theshinejournal.com/joslinoonahv.htm
http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/
http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/?s=All+Hallow%27s+Eve

Time Travelling is a fictional memoir - a kind of pastiche of jouneys undertaken throughout England and Wales over the past 30 years, the amusing, the frustrating, the disappointing. The passage of time and change in attitudes as seen through the lens of that interfcae with reality we euphemistically call leisure. The only true way to relax, I have always found, is to stay at home.
My great friend, Jennifer Whalmsley has her Flash Death by Numbers in the same issue - so check it out. And Pamela from Shine is in there too. Very good Pam.
Dance is based on the ballet Dracula as created by Denis Malenkine for The NBT. The poster is therefore real and resides in my bedroom. This ballet will never be forgotten by anyone who was lucky enough to see it.
Sleight of Hand at EDF htis month is a spooky tlae with Edwardian charm which I really enjoyed writing :)
My response to the economic MESS is Going with the Flow at The Pygmy Giant
People sometimes say they don't understand those poems that don't rhyme and have no rhythm and how can they be poems? Here is an ex-planation - of sorts. You Asked Me - right, Jennifer? :)
A final Creature Feature in Micro Horror
Two stories in Static Movement with similar theme.
A funny story with a serious point in BwS.
3 poems in Shine.
And I took the Halloween slot in Pygmy Giant! ;)

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October Links

Having won the Micro Horror Trophy last year, I decided to set myself the challenge of entering 6 stories for the competition this year ranging in length thus: 666, 555, 444, 333, 222, 111 words. I did it! Quite a marathon! Links to follow but some are up already - go and see them.
http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/category/author/oonah-v-joslin/
The Titles are:
End Game (not for the contest but very halloween)
Victim
Sole Survivor
Sleep Tight (My personal favourite)
Oh for a friendly Face
Duplicitous Creatures
Name of the Beast (topical)
GENESTARE (anagram title)
Titration of the Spirit ( a drabble of metaphisical proportions)

You might like to know more about Micro Horror's editor, Nathan Rosen, who is not horrible at all but somewhat human...sorry Black Dog Nate - it had to be said :) Here's the link to an interview with him:
http://shortstory.us.com/2008/10/interview-with-editor-microhorror/

A Horror of Horrors is one of my longer stories and it is now up at Demon Minds my first time in that publication. http://www.demonminds.com/tales/a_horror_of_horrors.html

You Must Remember This is at Every Day Fiction this month and it's one of my favourites. It made me laugh writing it and it makes me laugh reading it. Unapologetically very silly indeed :)
http://www.everydayfiction.com/you-must-remember-this-by-oonah-v-joslin/#comments

The Book is at http://www.joyfulonline.net/fiction.htm
My nephew Robert will perhaps recognise that this story is for him.

The Poem in Shine is untitled but you'll not need a title for this one. http://www.theshinejournal.com/joslinov.htm

Halloween is a tongue in cheek ghost story.
http://staticmovement.com/ovj.htm
Look out for Avis, Fionnula, Mark Dalligan and Sarah Ann Watts too - Well done, Writewords buddies.

A Brief Encounter is up for your entertainment. I hope it amuses you. http://www.short-humour.org.uk/writersshowcase/abriefencounter.htm

End Game http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/end-game/ see if you can guess what John is up to.

Here's one I forgot to post: The Magic Hour
http://thepygmygiant.blogspot.com/search?q=Oonah+V+Joslin

Bewildering Stories' Quarterly Review

4th in a row! I am stunned. Thank you to the editors for choosing What Boundaries. I hope anyone who missed it first time round, will read it now. It is a prose poem - a response to the rise in knife crimes in the UK.
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue302/what_boundaries.html

Look for Sarah Ann Watts too. She's a Writewords pal and a very good writer. Congrats Sarah.

Oonahversal View

For many years now capitalism has run wild. Back in the fifties we used to save up for the things we wanted. People have been encouraged into debt to make big bonusses for those at the top. If the company fails - the bosses still get the big bonusses. The incentives to greed are everywhere and they lead to cheating and lies. We're all living on wealth nobody is creating in any manufacturing base. It is therefore illusory. Shifting funds around electronically has merely enhanced the number of ways problems could be swept under the carpet.

The real tragedy is, Mr Average and his wife believed the dream and bought the HumVe - believed they were in safe hands. And what is truly disturbing is, that the melt down of this capitalist tissue of lies should be dramatised by a president in such apocalyptic terms, because that is just a way of shifting the stink to God or Fate.

As in the old Eden story, nobody wants to take responsiblity - admit the lie. I very much fear that instead of finding a solution, the powers that be will cover up the tracks with a greater lie: "It's okay now folks...back to business as usual."

Communism doesn't work either of course. What we need is a new vision where resources are more equitably distributed throughout the world and we all work as humanity to solve the problems that face us in global terms.

Now do I have your vote? Or is my Star Trek showing?
Oonah

Oonah's 11

11 pieces in e-zines in one month - that is! A new record. Please scroll down to September's Links, visit the links and leave comments/vote where possible.
You'll also find information about my motivation in writing these pieces.

Thank you for reading.

Every Day Poets

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