The New Issue of Faraway

May 17, 2009

Featuring stories, poetry, and artwork by dozens of contributors, the new issue of Faraway is now online.
Read the whole issue here, or preview the issue by clicking below:
Poetry: On the Other Promontory by Davide Trame.
Short story: The Book Review by David A. Kentner.
And return tomorrow for a new short story by Josh Mitchell, illustrated with [...]

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The Book Review by David A. Kentner

May 15, 2009

The radio came alive with the dispatcher advising the Fire Dept of the need for an ambulance at the golf course clubhouse. A man had stopped breathing.
He was just passing that building on his way to check on a house while the owners were away on vacation, so he pulled into the lot and ran [...]

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On The Other Promontory by Davide Trame

May 14, 2009

 And there were pools among the rocks
by the sea, deep pools, dark blue,
that would never dry
in the sunlight, I had climbed
to the cliff top and now stood
among them, craters filled as if by surprise
to the brim.
Click here to read the rest.  Click here to read more about Davide.

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Site Maintenance

May 5, 2009

FarawayJournal.com is undergoing some maintenance at the moment, which explains the new look.  We haven’t worked out all the kinks yet, but in the meantime our new issue is still available.  Give it a read, and be sure to let us know what you think.
Spring issue: http://www.farawayjournal.com/volume-2-issue-3-spring-2009/.

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Something to look at

April 22, 2009

The latest issue of Faraway is now available. thanks and congratulations to all the writers and artists.
These things always seem to take longer than anticipated. A word on the process: Our pet chimp Dimba solicits short stories, poems, and artwork from his cage at the company fortress in Montclair, California.  Accepted pieces are then shipped [...]

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Short Story Contest Voting

April 13, 2009

In my continuing series on Six Sentences and Joseph Grant, I encourage you all to head over to http://sixofthemonthmar09.blogspot.com/, where voting is going on for the “six of the month”, a monthly contest to select the best story of six sentences.  Our friend Joseph Grant has a story up, “The Incongruous Man”, with a hint [...]

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Six Sentences Book

April 12, 2009

The creative writing community Six Sentences, which I’ve posted about before, has just released a book.  This book is an anthology of “sixes”–stories only six sentences in length–and it features work by none other than Faraway contributor Joseph Grant (who writes me just about everyday letting me know that something else of his has been published–prolific bastard!).  [...]

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New Issue Coming Soon!

April 7, 2009

We’re putting the finishing touches on a brand new issue of Faraway.  It’s got a fantastic layout and look, as well as a bevy of artists and writers new to Faraway readers, plus some long-time veterans.
In the meantime, our Contributors page has been fully updated to include all of the new writers, poets, and artists from [...]

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Demand Growing For Print-On-Demand

April 6, 2009

There’s an article on CNN.com today about the growing demand and popularity for web-based print-on-demand services.  If you remember, late last year Faraway published the novella Doing the Dead by K.C. Wilson via Lulu.com.  Now, because of the economic downturn, more and more people are turning to services like Lulu and Author Solutions.
Traditionally, self-publishing has [...]

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In Praise of the Short Story

April 6, 2009

There was an article in the New York Times by A.O. Scott the other day about the virtues of the short story.  The writer describes the decline of the short story since the 1960s, and discusses the need for and signs of a coming resurgence.
To call an American writer a master of the short story [...]

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Spring Has Arrived!

March 28, 2009

“Lines Written In Early Spring”
by William Wordsworth
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.
Through primrose tufts, [...]

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Somebody make this into a movie, please

March 25, 2009
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I was listening to National Public Radio yesterday and there was a report on the drug wars going on in Mexico right now. About 8,000 people have been killed in the last 15 months throughout Mexico, all related to the drug cartels.
The report then went on to talk about two villages outside of Durango, Mexico, [...]

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I ate a big ass burrito

March 23, 2009

And then I passed out.

This bad boy came from El Tepeyac in Los Angeles.  It runs about $20 and is likely to be the biggest burrito you’ll ever come across.  You can pick up your own at 812 N Evergreen Avenue, in Los Angeles.  Good luck!

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I saw Barack Obama

March 19, 2009

This isn’t likely to be the best political reporting you’ve ever seen.  But I spent the morning today waiting out on Holt Avenue in Pomona to catch a glimpse of President Obama as his motorcade passed after leaving the Electric Vehicle Testing Center.  I was surrounded by screaming, waving people, and caught up in the [...]

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More from Joseph Grant

March 16, 2009

Our friend Joseph Grant has just had some more stories published. You can read his story “Reclamation”, just published in The Absent Willow Review, here: http://absentwillowreview.com/archives/reclamation.

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Excerpt on 6 Sentences

March 15, 2009

I was introduced to a website called 6 Sentences by Joseph Grant, a prolific writer whose work has appeared in Faraway.  In lieu of new work on Faraway, I present to you a six sentence-long excerpt of my novel-to-be: Sail excerpt.  It contains the longest sentence I’ve ever written, a matter of pride with me, [...]

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New Stories From Joseph Grant

March 4, 2009

Our friend Joseph Grant, whose work appeared in the last issue of Faraway, has several new stories online for your perusal.
The short story “The Cypher” is online at a delightful digital journal, Six Sentences.  Click here to read it!
You can also find the lengthier tale, “The Perfect Hit”, in Underground Voices Literary Review.  Check it [...]

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Long Live The Arts!

February 28, 2009

“Wherever the arts live from the festive contemplation of the world and its foundations, something like a liberation is achieved, a setting forth under the open sky — both for the creative artist himself as well as for the simplest onlooker. A man needs this liberation, this presentiment of the final and utmost stillness, [...]

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Happy the Way She Was

February 17, 2009

Another broken record with a new tune. All this time I thought we were fighting to win, but it looks like we were just dying to lose.
While on the road to ruin I stopped at a drive-through Star Bucks, the kind they used to have when my grandfather was a kid. After the nice young [...]

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Story in Pens on Fire

February 9, 2009

Just a quick note that a story I previously published here, A Dream of Thunder, is now appearing in the February edition of the e-zine Pens on Fire.  Check it out here, and let us know about any of your recent publication news.

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