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Winter 2011
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Fall 2011
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Micro
Award Nominee
Misunderstood Identity by Walter Giersbach
The Pushcart Prize isn't
the only award game in town! Each year, the Micro Awards
recognize excellence in short prose fiction (< 1000
words).
Big Pulp has nominated two
selections from our 2011 publications for the award.
Our 1st nominee is Walter Gierbach's romance "Misunderstood
Identity."
Misunderstood
Identity
The
love letter in our mailbox Saturday was addressed
to me. I had nothing to hide. Delores, who
was looking over my shoulder, saw the “Darling
Kevin” salutation, and freaked out.
“Is
there something you want to tell me, Kevin?” My
wife of 12 years put on her pit bull look,
the one she wears when I forget to put out
the garbage or miss the kid’s school bus.
“Delores,
I have never met this…this Sharlayne in my
life. It’s just another one of those mash
notes that come every now and then. I mean,
how could I even meet this babe? I go to
editorial meetings, see my publisher. I come
home. No business trips. And the letter’s
postmarked San Francisco.”
“Then
how do you know she’s a babe? Maybe she’s
an editorial assistant. She certainly knows
where the famous Kevin Alter lives.”
Delores
was right on one count. I’m Kevin Alter,
mystery author and runner up for an Edgar
Award two years ago. But now there’s this
bozo somewhere stealing my fame and identity,
passing himself off as me.
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December 6, 2011 Link
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Pushcart
Prize Nominee
The Annual Scarecrow Festival by John Davies
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,
John Davies' poem "The Annual Scarecrow Festival."
The Annual Scarecrow
Festival
The
Annual Scarecrow Festival
was cancelled this year—
in the fields as you enter the village,
in the strawberries,
there is one left over,
like a sign warning last chance for a hundred miles.
Unofficially,
they made them anyway,
fleshing cast-offs with fistfuls of straw, stalks
poxing the backs of hands, wrists.
Either gouging out their eyes with peeler, scissor,
or scoring their face on sack-cloth, pillow-case.
Back-boned them on garden rakes, or on rough wood
that fused broom, spade;
belted their waists round avenue trees.
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December 6, 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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