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Contents of Current Issue
We need more stories about the 99%,
told by the 99%
Kelly Huddleston
Author Kelly Huddleston
talks about her new novel,
A Week with Fiona Wonder
(Open Books 2013)
Back Then, Write Now
A 50-year Retrospective on Publishing Poetry
by guest editor Donal Mahoney
from the recent Open Books release
Thoughts of Maria
Gregory Heath
The First Rock Star
Author, Musician and Actress Christy Fearn
Lectures on The Relevancy of Lord Byron
in Today's Culture
Christy Fearn
From the novel
FRAMED
by Christy Fearn
Published by Open Books (2013)
Haiku Artworks
Zuzanna Orzel
Author Susie Duncan Sexton
talks openly about her book
Secrets of an Old Typewriter,
politics, animal rights, classic films
and just about...everything!
"Author David A. Ross Meets the 'Real Life'
Incaration of his Fictional Character,
Fizzy Oceans"
"The City Heroes"
Omoruyi Uwuigiaren
"Unseen"
Glen Still
"MONSTER MOVIES: A PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE"
David Gariff
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 Christopher Barnes
"Filming 'Blood Shot Sil'"
"The Shadow Patrol"
Donald O'Donovan
Highway by Donald O'Donovan
(Open Books 2011)
Review by Susie Duncan Sexton
The value of fiction in exploring and representing
the Holocaust:
Bernard Schlink's The Reader
(First appeared in issue 39 of ‘Tears in the Fence’.)
Gregory Heath
From the upcoming novel
The Woman Who Lost China
Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang
"ChinaShock"
Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang
…and I got a pretty nifty t-shirt too:
The Book of Mormon…Detroit engagement
Roy Sexton
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by Gregory Heath
Gerry Thorley’s wife Rachel has left him for another man. His son Callum, who works for a PR company by day and deals drugs at night, hardly ever visits him. Now Gerry, divorced and approaching fifty, wants a second chance at love.
On the other side of the world, on the infamous Payatas dump in Manila, nineteen-year-old Maria and her family live a life of abject poverty and desperation. Picking through the filth, they earn just enough to stay alive. There seems no chance for change, until one day a young man appears with a proposition.
As Gerry combs web site after web site searching for the perfect mail-order bride, Maria and her family come to terms with the possibility that she might marry a foreigner to escape the miserable cycle of poverty in which they live. But he must be just the right man, a kind, respectful man, and a man with the means to give her a better life.
Will Maria’s future husband turn out to be an Englishman more than twice her age? Will Gerry’s new wife satisfy his needs for companionship and warmth? And what might his ex-wife and son think of Gerry’s new bride?
As French émigré Roman Catholics, Lizette Molyneux and her brother Robert are used to an existence on the edge of their Regency Nottingham community. But when Robert is arrested for a crime he insists he did not commit, Lizzie must draw on all her strength and courage to help him. Overcoming poverty, prejudice and the unwanted advances of her employer’s son, she unites with the frame-breaking Luddites to free her brother and to rectify social injustice.
With all the excitement of Sharpe (Bernard Cornwell), as well as the social commentary of Elizabeth Gaskell and Victor Hugo, Framed dramatises the issues of a turbulent time and champions the resistance of poverty-stricken workers. If you liked Les Miserables, then you’ll love Framed!
Now Available
from Open Books
January 20, 2013
by Open Books
A Week with
Fiona Wonder
by Kelly Huddleston
It is exactly one week until sixteen-year-old Mercy Swimmer is to play out a dream scenario: to spend an entire week with movie star Fiona Wonder, the prize awarded to the winner of a contest staged by a teen magazine.
Mercy is kind and compassionate and always tries to see the best in everybody, even when those around her do not respond similarly. For example, her mother’s snippy, hot-tempered friend Nikki is a kleptomaniac who constantly belittles her boyfriend. Her best friend Valerie has anger issues and a weight problem. Beautiful but cold Lady Redding, Valerie’s mother, feels entitled to everything even as others go without. And Mercy’s mother, a severe asthmatic who works two menial jobs in a “dead mall”, seems to care more about Fiona Wonder and Mercy’s upcoming week with her than the pressing issues in their own lives.
Everything is on track for Mercy’s upcoming week with Fiona Wonder, but when her mother’s asthma flairs up, Mercy’s world turns upside down and she is faced with a decision that will ultimately challenge her own capacity for compassion.
A Week with Fiona Wonder shines an intense light upon the dire consequences of social exclusivity and suggests the alternatives of inclusion, empathy and, indeed, mercy.
Hundreds More...
Stories, Poems, Articles, Excerpts, Videos, Interviews, Fine Arts Expo
Outside the Box
Superb Poetry Slams
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by David Sirota
Tom Engelhardt
Jason Linkins
Mornoic Ox
Music Video of the Week
David Bowie
"China Girl"
Film & Theatre
"Reel Roy Reviews"
By Roy Sexton
"Easter weekend of lost souls: Hitchcock, Phil Spector, and The Girl"
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