[Left] Here's the cover of the Blue Monday Review, September 2015, in which, yes, is my short story "General Mouse."
[Below] The author enjoying the tactile experience of a good literary magazine.
[Below] Title page of the story.
This blog's purpose is to promote the novel, The Long Habit of Living, by Mark Zipoli. Posts have excerpts from the book and related visuals to give the reader a heightened literary experience. Oftentimes posts may refer to my championing the works of John Cowper Powys, Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Anita Brookner, and other heroes.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
General Mouse - a short story, now appearing in the Blue Monday Review
"General Mouse" one of my most recent short stories, is now published in the latest issue of Blue Monday Review. Vol. 2, No. 3, September 2015.
“They have lost their minds.”
He was twisting the neck of a large clear plastic garbage bag and winding a tie around it, all the while looking at men’s and women’s bottoms leaking out over plastic chairs with cranky old wooden seats, breasts resting fully on formica table tops, faces hung with the sad thick layers of gluttony.
“They have lost their minds.”
He was twisting the neck of a large clear plastic garbage bag and winding a tie around it, all the while looking at men’s and women’s bottoms leaking out over plastic chairs with cranky old wooden seats, breasts resting fully on formica table tops, faces hung with the sad thick layers of gluttony.
“They have lost their minds,” he said to himself. “Saint Anthony, pray for them, they are so fat, they eat themselves sick. How do they sleep at night? Where do they go, these Americans, but from one meal to the next? Even their souls are fat, so when they die, how will they rise to heaven? They will sink to hell. Their addiction to liberty has set their minds free. They are too free.”
Click here for the link to BMR's website and get the full issue and read the story.
If you'd like a Adobe Digital Editions copy, email me and I'll send you one.
--M.
Click here for the link to BMR's website and get the full issue and read the story.
If you'd like a Adobe Digital Editions copy, email me and I'll send you one.
--M.
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