Moronic Ox Literary and Cultural Journal is published in association with Escape Media Publishers and Open Books, the electronic imprint of EMP.
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Contents of Current Issue
What's In Store For eBooks in 2012?
David A. Ross
"On Edge"
Carole S. Mora
"Raspberry Hives", "Country Cafeteria",
"The Landlord"
Donal Mahoney
Haiku Artworks
Zuzanna Orzel
Sequences to freedom
Ali Abdolrezaei
Translated from Persianto English by Abol Froushan
Meet Artist & Teacher
Jacqui 'Jax' Simpson
Three Poems by Christopher Barnes
"THE BISHOP SUFFRAGAN'S DEVOTIONS"
"I THOUGHT I'D GOTTEN OUT OF THE HABIT"
"THE BALLERINA"
From the novel
The Virtual Life of Fizzy Oceans
by David A. Ross
Necropsy In E Minor by Alan Ramon Clinton
(Open Books 2011)
Review by Lily Wren
"Feast of the Epiphany"
Alicia Young
"The City Heroes"
Omoruyi Uwuigiaren
"Unseen"
Glen Still
"The Freakmaker"
From the novel-in-progress
Orgasmo
by Donald O'Donovan
Author Alan Ramon Clinton
Talks About His Lovelife
(and reads from his letters to women
on the web site match.com)
Alan Ramon Clinton
The Poetry of Mitchell Waldman
"Blueprints to Black", "American Cheese on Wonder Bread", "Snow"
Highway by Donald O'Donovan
(Open Books 2011)
Review by Susie Duncan Sexton
Police Pepper Spray
Peaceful UC Davis Students
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Writers & Contributors
Appearing in
The Moronic Ox
Ali Abdolrezaei
Debrenee Adkisson
Keith Ainsworth
John-Patrick Ayson
Andrew Barber
Christopher Barnes
Jeniffer Borek
Chantal Boudreau
W. E. Brower
Nicki Bullock
Shane Jesse Christmass
Alan Ramon Clinton
M. Cid d'Angelo
Rebecca Fiske
Leila Fortier
Andrea Hinds
Christopher Holmes
Michael Howarth
Kelly Huddleston
Teri Louis Kelly
Kremena
Dimitris Kyriakis
Donal Mahoney
Brigitte Martin
Lindsay Metter
Carole Mora
Amitava Nag
Joyce Norman
Donald O'Donovan
Zuzanna Orzel
Susmita Chatterjee Paul
bl pawelek
Helen Peterson
Lakota Phillips
Aaron Quinn
Dariush Rad
David A. Ross
Linda Sands
Andy Sell
Jeni Booker Senter
Susie Duncan Sexton
Jacqui Simpson
L.A. Steel
Glen Still
Lisa Kramer Taruschio
Jan Theuninck
T. K. Thorne
Jenny Toune
Santiago del Dardano Turann
Omoruyi Uwuigiaren
Joe B. Vaughn Jr.
Mitchell Waldman
Alun Williams
Lili Wren
Don Wright
Vincent Yanez
Alicia Young
Lisa Zaran
Moronic Ox Literary & Cultural Journal on Facebook
by David A. Ross
Meet Fizzy Oceans—archivist, researcher, environmentalist and adventurer. On her travels she witnesses The Exodus, the Battle of Gettysburg and Hurricane Katrina. She meets notable individuals including Gandhi, Mark Twain, Jacques Cousteau, The Dalai Llama, Saddam Hussein.
Such unique experiences and encounters would not be possible for a single individual—especially not for Amy Birkenstock who works as a medical clerk in Seattle—but Fizzy Oceans, Amy’s digital alter ego, is not in Physical Life. She lives, works and travels in the virtual world where the dead are very much alive, places like ancient Babylon and Pompeii have been reconstructed, and with the click of a button—WHOOSH!—one is transported throughout the Ages to events and destinations that make up our human history.
Even as Amy’s physical life existence is challenged by encroaching environmental disaster, economic instability, and societal breakdown, Fizzy’s virtual world offers instant realization of vision and inspiration. The Virtual Life of Fizzy Oceans imagines the bridging of two worlds—the literal and the metaphorical—and questions what it we have created, what has been lost, and what might be possible for the Human Race.
Across the border on Mariscal Street, which is otherwise known as the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, we find Donald O’Donovan’s TARANTULA WOMAN—a prostitute named Ysela with a tattoo of a tarantula on her left shoulder blade. She is just one of many women in one man’s unapologetic and aimless existence in Mexico where each day brings another round of whorehouses, drunken stupors, odd jobs, eruptions of violence and encounters with equally directionless individuals.
Perhaps not since Charles Bukowski’s FACTOTUM has an autobiographical novel touched upon with such rawness the everyday realities of a modern-day American degenerate. More than just a diary of a drunk, however, O’Donovan’s wandering prose skillfully handles such big subjects as life, love, death and the difficulty of simply being.
Now Available
from Open Books
Recently Published
by Open Books
Necropsy in E Minor
by Alan Ramon Clinton
Shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize, Necropsy in E Minor is the tale of a young professor who records the past six months of his life as he drives around the rim of Florida, adopts a cat named Sanity, becomes an amateur ornithologist, develops a theory of “instantaneous architecture,” endures a shamanic experience, and eggs himself on with the hope that, no matter what happens, his “memoir” might one day be found by archaeologists and thereby provide a key to human life at the close of the
twentieth century.
Brainy
Funny
Fiction!
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