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Hey, here's something a little different. A couple months ago my friend and I put together a zine using my fiction and her art; we sold a few copies at the local comic store and on consignment in the anarchist bookstore in uptown, but we're happy to share it for free as well.

It's much better in person--the xeroxing gave it this really gorgeous texture that's lost in the computer version--but the version hosted on her site is perfectly respectable. If you want it in person, of course, you could always buy a copy. Kidding, kidding.

Anyway, here it is. I really hope you like it.

Wow. Very nice. The prose and art flow together really well.

Autobiographical?

Yeah, her art made it pretty much perfect. It was exactly what I'd envisioned, except where it's better. I adore it. And look around her site, too, if you get a chance. She's seriously one of my favorite artists in addition to being one of my best friends. /plug

Nope, not remotely autobiographical. It was written as one of my senior writing projects last spring and is purely fiction. Here's a copy-paste from my ElJay concerning its background, if anyone cares:

At the time, I found the idea of using a more poetry-based (or song-based) structure in fiction very appealing. I still do, actually. The repetition, the cut-off ending, the calm non-plot, and the stanza-like sections are a result of that.

I was also listening to a lot of punk (LOL, I know) and reading about anarchist culture and whatnot. My plan had been to let that bleed into my work just a little because it interested me, but it wound up saturating it completely.

You might say one character is the embodiment of the poetry aesthetic, and the other is the embodiment of the 70s/80s punk movement aesthetic.

So not me, but certainly reflecting some of my interests at the time.