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Winter 2011
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Fall 2011
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Winter 2010
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Pushcart
Prize Nominee
The Battle of Hutchinson's Crossroads by
Chris J. Peterson
Each year, the Pushcart
Prize recognizes literary excellence in the small press.
Editors and publishers are invited to nominate selections
from their publications from the previous year for
consideration for the prize and publication in the
organization's annual anthology.
Over the past few weeks, Big
Pulp undertook the difficult task of narrowing
the fiction and poetry we published in 2011 down
to six nominations. Now, we are very proud to present
another of our nominees for the 2011 Pushcart Prize,
Chris J. Peterson's tale of the blue and the grey
- "The Battle of Hutchinson's Crossroads."
The Battle of
Hutchinson's Crossroads
Sprays
of soil erupted from the road below us as
Silas and I dove into the ditch to escape
the Federals’ bullets. Others of our unit
jumped in the ditch behind us, but the buzz
of the bullet flying directly over my head
ended in a wet thok! as the man
behind me fell to the road.
Silas
and I lay flat on our bellies, below the
line of sight of the enemy. Blasts of gun
fire and the whirring of bullets continued.
The ditch was deeper on this side of the
road, and was why so many of our men were
dashing across. One man tripped and fell
into the ditch on top of me, and then wedged
himself between me and the man to my right.
I scooted closer to Silas on my left. He
was my mentor and my comfort. He’d been in
these situations before. I had not.
“Damn
it! Hold off!” Silas yelled behind us. “We
can’t fit no more over here!”
That
didn’t stop more men from trying. I heard
running on the road and looked in time to
see the back of a man’s neck spray red behind
him.
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December 7, 2011 Link
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Martyrs
and Traitors
by Marina Julia Neary
Dublin,
Good Friday, 1916 -
Kidnapped and held at gunpoint by his former IRB
comrades,
Bulmer Hobson, the antihero
of 1916, denounces the ill-fated Easter Rising he
tried to prevent. Once branded 'the most dangerous
man in Ireland,' Hobson is about
to be deleted
from history. Based on historical accounts, Martyrs
and Traitors is an intimate glance into the
conflicted and shattered heart of Ireland's discredited
patriot.
Marina
most recently appeared in Big
Pulp's Winter 2010 issue with her story How
Am I Gonna Play Guitar Now?
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