The new issue of Faraway is online, featuring dozens of pieces by many new authors.  Click on the titles below to read the individual stories or poems, or click here to view the issue as a whole.

On the Other Promontory by Davide Trame

Winter Passage For Billy Collins by Michael K. Gause

Dwindling Times and Burden by Gary Beck

A Work in Progress by Benjamin Nardolilli with artwork by Travis Jeffords

Paramecium by S.P. Flannery

Her Shunted Complexion by Ray Succre with photo by James Berkshire

Beyond Organic Groceries by Elizabeth Kate Switaj

“Behold I Am Oblivion” by Terence Kuch

Titian on His Journey Home by Davide Trame

The Book Review by David Kentner

A Family Matter by Josh Mitchell with photos by Atina Thorning

Manic is the Dark Night by Michael K. Johnson

Dwellings by Luigi Monteferrante

The Whole History of Art by William Doreski

Can I Get a Witness by Eric McKinley

Betty With the Peacock by Willow Healy

Fading Flurries by Sean Wiebe

? by Jeff Hendrickson

RedYellowRed by Katie Rutherford

Conceptual Conflict by Felino Soriano

Spirit Faces by William Doreski

Roy Flint, Circa 1988 by Jen Conley

Venge by S.P. Flannery

Smack! by James Berkshire

The Silent Signs by Olga Zilberbourg with artwork by Gay Degani

Some Dark Blue by Beth Mathison

Coming to America by Shane Ryan Bailey with L.A. Harvest by James Berkshire

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Mark Konkel
New Grass by Michael K. Gause

My sister Zoe, a travel writer, had just returned to New York City from Tel-Aviv or Riga or St. Petersburg when somebody told her I had three months left to live. The news struck Zoe as rather odd: nobody at the headquarters of the travel publishing firm where we both work could trace the source of this information or venture a guess as to the cause of my impending death, and Zoe is not the one to believe uncorroborated rumors. She brushed the idea aside, and proceeded doing business as usual: finished her report on the latest adventure, ordered new custom luggage from Signe Mou on Fifth Avenue, and went out for lunch with her boss, our chief editor Karen Everest. Karen is Zoe’s boss only nominally; in fact, Zoe herself hired and trained Karen during her own brief stint as the chief at Kongo-Roo.

The job kept her stationed in New York for several months at a time—it was the longest period of time Zoe had spent in one place since college, and she almost single-handedly caused the demise of this 100-year old organization driving everybody crazy with her constant flow of ideas for radical change. It was she who opened our surprisingly successful West Coast office (hiring me as a technical editor), and immediately attempted to do the same in China and Ireland, I think. When those ventures almost bankrupted the company, Zoe announced that she was a travel writer at heart and turned her position over to Karen. They say that after two and a half years of tenure my sister’s office had remained a bare white-walled room without a single picture or personal item.

 

Silent Signs features a painting by Gay Degani.  Read the rest here.  Read more about Olga Zilberbourg and Gay Degani.  You can also click here to read another story by Olga in The Writer’s Eye magazine.

Thank you so much for including my story in your fine review.  I am honored to be included in it.  The typesetting and graphics look great.  Keep up the good work. . . .  I believe in what you’re doing, so keep doing it.  Therefore, here is a small contributions towards the next issue.  Best of luck in your literary efforts.

Sincerely,
Joseph Grant

To contribute to Faraway and help keep this independent journal alive, please click here.

And remember, we are currently serializing the novella Doing the Dead – 1983.  We just published the first chapter, with the second chapter to follow on the 13th.

Allow me also to take this opportunity to plug Second Story Books of Claremont, which has been one of our staunchest supporters.  They’ve got a great selection of new, used, rare, hard-to-find and interesting titles to choose from.  More importantly, they are one of a rare breed of independent bookstores.  If you’re tired of going into Barnes and Nobles and seeing a million copies of the latest James Patterson or Dean Koontz book, stop by Second Story.  More importantly still, the proprietors of Second Story support writers and artists like those who contribute to and publish Faraway.

So stop in to pick up the latest copy of our journal and browse around for a book to read afterwards.  And don’t forget to let us know what you think!

Over thirty contributors: Andy Mills, Dan Moreau, Diana Magallon, Jeff Crouch, David Kowalczyk, Val Murah, Katie Rutherford, T.R. Healy, William Walsh, Ellen Perry, Suvi Mahonen, Luke Waldrip, Vic Fortezza, Michael Woodcock, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Janet Thorning, Jim Fuess, Jim Lyons, Christian Pinchbeck, Michael Pitassi, Colin James, Joseph Goosey, Daniel Sawyer, Josh Mitchell, Jared Hernandez, Joseph Grant, Ron Savage, Gay Degani, Steve Cartwright, Scott Sawyer, and Jeff Hendrickson!

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This issue features stories, poems, and artwork from two dozen contributors, including Andy Mills, Suvi Mahonen and Luke Waldrip, Jeff Crouch and Diana Magallon, Jim Lyons, Jim Fuess, Michael Woodcock, Josh Mitchell, Jared Hernandez, Michael Pitassi, T.R. Healy, Ellen Perry, David Kowalczyk, William Walsh, Joseph Grant, Vic Fortezza, Gay Degani, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Steve Cartwright, Ron Savage, and Christian Pinchbeck.

And please be sure to tell us what you think!