2:05 PM - Really gone, now.

We're officially now at Tuesdayshorts.com.  Visit the website for guidelines, updates, and other TS stuff.

Send submissions to tuesdayshorts@yahoo.com - but please read the guidelines, first.

Bye, MySpace!

(As for the rest of you - we hope you'll come with us.)

K&S

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9:46 PM - SUBMISSIONS

This is the final week submissions may be sent to both the yahoo and myspace addresses - next weekend, all submissions should go to tuesdayshorts@yahoo.com.

Visit our new home at  www.tuesdayshorts.com.


Happy Friday!

K&S

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2:52 PM - This week’s shorts

...are to be found here.

Read very, very, very short stories by Michael A. Kechula, Noel Sloboda, and Phil Abrams.

 

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10:13 AM - MOVING.

In the interest of better exposure and more user-friendly interweb sites, we're sliding out of MySpace.

Our changes are gradual and sporadic, but we like to think that makes things interesting.

You may have seen some announcements guiding you gently toward our Tuesday Shorts space on Blogger.  The reason for that is Blogger allows for more exposure - it makes your work googlable.  Also, it's a lot easier to work with than is MySpace.  Another benefit is that more writers and readers, who may not be interested in creating an online networking account, will be more prone to stop by.

You've also probably read something here and there about our Tuesday Shorts website, a rather slow-moving project.  The plan is to post new work on the website, and then shift that work over to Blogger (with an archived links list posted on the website) as newer work gets posted.  The website will also announce any upcoming readings or special opportunities.

We'd like to nudge you away from our MySpace page as seamelessly as possible, so please take a look at the other pages and bookmark them for the future. 

Any questions? Leave your comment here!

K&S

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3:10 PM - "$4,750," by Damian Dressick

$4,750

Damian Dressick

17 words

"Nope," said the foreman. "Won't be the jury gets hung, that's all you can lay hands on."

A Pushcart nominee and winner of the 2007 Harriette Arnow Award for short fiction, Damian Dressick's work has appeared or is slated to appear in more than twenty-five literary journals, including New Delta Review, Alimentum, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Vestal Review and Contrary Magazine. Founding curator of Pittsburgh's UPWords Reading Series, Damian teaches creative writing and literature at Robert Morris University. www.damiandressick.com

Copyright © 2008 Damian Dressick

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3:01 PM - "Lore," by Bob Heman

LORE
Bob Heman
72 words

The stork brought a baby bear to the hunter and a baby fox to the frog and a baby chicken to the wolf. Each was raised to adulthood by its new parent in the same way they would have raised any child. The bear was taught human ways, the fox frog ways, the chicken the ways of the wolf. Later, when they talked with each other, they became filled with strange ideas.

Bob Heman's work has appeared in Quick Fiction, Paragraph, Sentence, and many others.  A collection of 33 pieces, How it All Began, is available as a free download from Quale Press at http://www.quale.com/How_BH.html

Copyright © 2008 Bob Heman

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2:54 PM - "The Evening News," by Chris Deal

The tender turns the television to Univision, mostly for the telenovela women, and there they saw, on the news, this grainy clip of a group of Argentine kids freaking out over a gnome coming their way, pointy hat and drunken hobo shuffle and all. Nat watched from over his beer and spoke, to his reflection in the glass, to the tender, to no one, "Now, if you see a little fellow coming your way, all jolly on his bun, you don't scream. You buy that cat a drink and get his story." No one had anything to say.

 


Chris Deal writes from Huntersville, North Carolina. He is the fiction editor for Red Fez, and has been published in a handful of places around about.

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2:49 PM - Submission Reminder

Before posting today, there's something we'd love to share.

We continue to get more and more submissions - stunning work, too - but alas, we can't publish everything.

This is just a reminder that if your piece isn't chosen one week, it could on another. The editorial process is subjective and is often based on the overall issue, just as with any other publication.

So keep it up. Our readers need you!!

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4:22 AM - In memoriam

To honor the recently laid to rest reading series (which was normally held on Wednesday nights - ?!?), Tuesday Shorts will post this evening.

Keep your britches on. It will be worth the wait.

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4:20 AM - Final Tuesday Shorts Reading NYC alert!!

Todd Zuniga is the founding editor of Opium Magazine and a co-founder of the Literary Death Match reading series. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his fiction has appeared most recently in Canteen, and online at Lost Magazine. He is hard at work on his second novel. During the day he works as a freelance editor for 1up.com and ESPN Video Games. He longs for a Chicago Cubs World Series victory and an EU passport.

Nick Antosca's writing has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Nerve, The New York Sun, Identity Theory, The New York Tyrant, The Antietam Review, Hustler, Opium, elimae, and others. His first novel, Fires, was published in January 2007 by Impetus Press, and his second, Midnight Picnic, will be out in fall 2008.

Robin Slick is a rock music obsessed fiction writer living in downtown Philadelphia with a strong desire to jump into a time machine and land in London during the 1960s. She is the author of Three Days in New York City and its sequel, Another Bite of the Apple, erotic comedies published by Mundania/Phaze Press as well as editor and contributor of a short story collection, Thirty Nine and Holding...Him and the soon to be released Volume II, 39 and Still Holding, also published by Phaze. Her short story "Daddy Left Me Alone with God" appears in the anthology, Rebellion - New Voices of Fiction, published by Rebel Press in July 2006.

You can find Robin's work in print and on the web everywhere from heady places like In Posse Review and Slow Trains Literary Journal to give-heady places like Clean Sheets and Playgirl Magazine. She lives vicariously through her rock star daughter -- bass player extraordinaire, Julie Slick, and her amazing drummer son, Eric Slick -- both members of the Adrian Belew Power Trio -- and spends whatever spare time she has left touring with them around the world (when they let her).

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