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Micro
Award Nominee
A Kiss and Makeup by Shannon Schuren
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 second nominee is Shannon Schuren's romance "A
Kiss and Makeup."
A Kiss and Makeup
“Don’t.” Annika
waved the waiter away from the empty place
setting on the other side of the table, her
voice husky from too many cigarettes, too
many drinks, too many lies swallowed year
after year until she could no longer breathe.
Explanations would be lost on the attending
stranger, so she offered up her glass instead.
“Dirty
martini.”
He’d
spit in it, retribution for the hours she’d
taken up his table nursing her cocktails
and despair, for the rings of dark lipstick
she’d left on the rim of her glass.
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December 8, 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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Pushcart
Prize Nominee
Gregory Finds His Way by Jenny Gumpertz
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,
Jenny Gumpertz's "Gregory Finds His Way."
Gregory Finds
His Way
He
was burned out behind the bar, tired of
listening to other people’s troubles. He
had plenty of his own, but he knew his
role as bartender: he was supposed to listen,
to hand out sympathy, and otherwise keep
his trap shut.
But
every night late, after the last drunk
had shuffled out the door of Tavern Tavern,
Gregory turned the plastic Open sign
in the window to Closed, pulled
down the shade, and turned the key in the
lock. He lumbered up the wooden stairs
to the little attic apartment over the
bar that his employer gave him as part
wages, and remoted the TV onto his favorite
channels: food, nature, or adventure…whichever
one was on that night.
Then
is when he dreamed his dreams. Made himself
a honey-nut sandwich on 9-grain and washed
it down with a Stella Artois—only his third
of the evening, that was his limit when
he was alone.
Gregory’s
secret dream, which he would never confess
to anyone in the world, was to become a
greengrocer. A produce guy.
It
was the last thing anyone would guess about
him. He was large and clumsy, one shirt
button was always undone, his hair wouldn’t
comb, and he sometimes got a look from
the Health Department inspector like he,
Gregory, might be cause enough for a B
rating, even though he kept Tavern Tavern
spic and span.
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