Son and Foe #3
- a quarterly magazine of short fiction and music
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Paradise Found
- past issues of the magazine
Featured Short Stories
- Thought Experiments: An Abecedary - A is for Alibi
The whole world watched on live threedeevision as Professor Lindeman set his time machine for one day in the future, stepped in, and vanished...
- Thought Experiments: An Abecedary - B is for Brand
When I say good-bye to my parents before going down to the ceremony, my mother manages to hold back her tears and even smile, and she doesn't mention that it's still not too late to back out...
Featured Poems
- Old English
- I buried the sheepdog for you, trying
to save you from that grief, dug through muscled
roots, past rain-wet earth to harder, drier
soil that did not cling, but scoured the shovel...
- I buried the sheepdog for you, trying
- How Like Dime Novels
- How like dime novels, the prizefighter is
when beaten to a pulp; he tried to say
that no one in the world could put him down.
Sisyphus had his philosopher's stone–
with his chiseled features and broken hands,
the champ turned to Gold and said, “Violence
has come to a head.” Punch-drunk, on the ropes...
- How like dime novels, the prizefighter is
Our Adventrous Song
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Featured Blog Posts
- Emerald City reviews Son and Foe #3
- Emeral City’s Nic Clarke recently reviewed Son and Foe #3. The review is a good one, and not just because it’s generally positive. It’s pretty clear that Nic is a thoughtful reviewer, and interested in more than outlining a story’s plot and stating whether or not the story worked for him. Son [...]
- New Stories up at Son and Foe
- This week we have the first two stories from Igor Tepper’s Thought Experiments: An Abecedary: A is for Aliby and B is for Brand. The whole collection is astounding, and these two are no exception. Enjoy!
- President Bush sings Sunday, Bloody Sunday
- The Party Party podcast has edited together a video of President Bush singing “Sunday, Bloody Sunday.” This is one of the better clips of its type I’ve seen. The vocals fit well, and in fact are delivered in a kind of catchy, spoken word-esque kind of way. Even better, the accompanying images [...]
- Slush
- I’m behind on slush (sorry guys) and have to start focusing on getting the next issue of the magazine out. As such, I’m closing submissions for the moment. They should open again sometime around 8/1/06. Everyone who’s submitted should receive a response before or near the 30-day timeframe we usually try and [...]
- Thank You For Smoking / dir: Jason Reitman
- In essence Thank You For Smoking is a slice-of-life story, the life in question being that of Nick Naylor, played to perfection by Aaron Eckhart as the most unconscionable, audacious and downright likeable scumbag you’re every likely to meet. Nick is a spokesperson for the tobacco industry, whose job it is to deflect all [...]
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