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CONTENTS
Zounds (Part I) > ALISTAIR GENTRY : GLOBALISATION OR GLOBALIZATION?generic ed drugsErectile Dysfunction
"I want patois and pidgin and slang and idiom and accents. I want to see English in its best party frock, and I want to see English with its hairy arse hanging out." Andrew Gallix asks English novelist and playwright Alistair Gentry if globalis(z)ation is having an impact on literature.
Musik Sans Frontieres >
 TWIST AND SHOUT, GODAMMIT!
"I never thought I'd ever live in a time when rock 'n' roll was unpopular." - Tyler Keith
Vincent Abbate interviews The Neckbones, the last gang in town.
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Vox Populi >
"Sergeant Henderson was a woman Marine. She was the non-commissioned officer in charge of me. She was also a holy terror most of the time, constantly on my case, and I liked her about as much as I liked Saddam Hussein." Tom Waltz met Sergeant Henderson during the Gulf War - and survived to tell the tale.
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FEATURED FICTION - HORROR 
PENNY DREADFUL: A SERIAL NOVELLA
> HERE KITTY, KITTY, KITTY
"Gripping her purse tightly, she turned towards the center of the cemetery and walked slowly down the gravel paths between the rows of crypts in the direction of her home . . ." Part one of Travis Black's spine-chilling tale of terror.
ARE & BE > Guillaume Destot, music lover and neo-Hydropathe extraordinaire, reviews albums by Fishbone, Papas Fritas and Elliott Smith.
Report from the Pest > Number 15 Bus "You might think that the best way to get to know Budapest and have a genuine Hungarian experience is by finding the best local restaurants, the folksiest cafés, and the pubs most popular with the natives. Of course you'd be wrong." If you're hungry for Hungary, Foog recommends a trip on the Number 15 bus.
Buzzwords > Andrew Gallix brings you cutting-edge literary news from Russia, Japan, Britain, North America and France, plus an exclusive feature on the new Parisian literary movement called the neo-Hydropathes.
Byte-Sized > Lit lite for an Accelerated CultureIn this issue's collection of short-shorts and poems: "Giselle" and "A Defeat" by Guillaume Destot, "It all Makes Scents" by Chris Fields, "The Naked Brunch" and "Blah, Blah, Blah: Waiting for the Waiter" by Andrew Gallix, "Puncture Wound" by Michael Petrie, and "Sporks" by Jane Tieman.
ANGRY! > DRUG-INFO BAN LIKELY TO BECOME LAWIn this issue, the ANGRY! section is taken over by our friends at 420Times.com who sent us this article by Dana Larsen of Cannabis Culture Magazine. (The interview with Jean-Yves Carpentier, one of the leaders of the neo-Hydropathes in Paris will appear in our summer issue).
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| WHAT'S THE WORD? |
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If you think, in your secretest thoughts, that what you do is actually quite probably a pile of lies, crap and evasions, at best an entertaining farce and at worst a ghastly satire starring you as yourself, it is likely, is it not, that after a while, without even noticing it, you will start, in your innermost halls of internal judgement, in the silent places that you only go to when you cannot sleep at three a.m., to think that maybe you yourself too are nothing but a pile of lies, crap and evasions.
And it is a lot harder to laugh about it at three a.m. when you cannot sleep than it is in the pub with your friends. When it is three a.m. and you cannot sleep, when your plumbing creaks and your wiring hums and every slamming car door is a gunshot, a certain ironic distance and a certain supposed distinction are not really much of a consolation.
James Hawes, Dead Long Enough(Jonathan Cape, 2000)
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Tripping >
SON HOUSE MEETS WES THE POWER TRIO
"Eddie Son House is reporting back to the other members of the chorus of dead blues legends. Our music. They done changed it again. But it's still going. It's still alive." Vincent Abbate has seen the old man's world-weary face before - in black and white. . .
Zounds (Part II) > TOPSY-TURVY
French novelist François Bon on globalis(z)ation & literature : he turns our question on its head!
SHOWCASE > Phoebe Reeves"'What're you doing?'" Someone shook me hard. I opened my eyes. My fingers still gripped the shiny red handle of the plane's EXIT door : Skye Wentworth introduces an extract from Phoebe Reeves' The Revenant. Andrew Gallix interviews the author.
THE REVENGE OF SAM KINNISON > By Joel Jenkins "The Seattle grunge music scene was in full boom, and I spent many an evening hanging around in smoky bars, waiting for my half-hour to forty-five minutes in the spotlight."
VéLO CITé > Patrice Juarez, our very own Virgil in combat pants, guides you through the bars, restaurants & clubs of gay Paree. Suivez le guide!
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| IN STORE @ 3 A.M. |
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HOW TO PICK UP WOMEN, 2 0 0 0
For the single male, this is absolutely 'The Dating Guide to End All Dating Guides.' Featuring never before revealed approaches and cutting edge techniques as they apply to the dating/relationship arena of today and the next few years to come.
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| 3 A.M. MAGAZINE FICTION |
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> HAPPY CORN BELT
"I'll take some eggs," Josephine said, her voice resentful under the boot. Lois licked her fingers at the stove. She'd put Crisco into a cast iron pan, which was still crusty from the night before. With her left hand she cracked eggs into the pan. The Crisco melted like slush. Her cigarette hung between her lips. "You'll get eggs when you ask God to forgive you for wantin' to wear that short skirt."
An extract from Backwoods East Jesus, Kaley Noonan's new online novel.
> KNICKER PICKER
"The breeze rattled his window latch a little and breathed life into his room. It would be a fruitful night, he was sure of that, what with the weather wet all day and now so mild and windy, yes, the washing lines would be full." Nicking the Knicker Picker in Bruce Downie's short story.
> PETERSON & SON AUTOMOTIVE
. . .It was the freckles that made her so beautiful. . . Her name felt like peppermint candy on my tongue. . . The Mustang was a gem, all clean metal and tight hoses and eight-cylinder horsepower under the hood. . . The spark plugs of Cindy Claire's car were as clean as her white shoes, hardly even worn. . . In that split second, though, my own mother didn't know who I was. . . I followed her mane of hair and those long legs outside. . . Mud covered her new white shoes. . . "Cindy Claire," I whispered to the night, rolling her name across my tongue. . .
Discover Michael Jasper's brilliant new short story.
> THE BLACK
"From that day on Lucas vowed that he would make them pay, and others like them. He hit them where it hurt most. . ." Black Beauty meets Jesse James in Larry Letemplier's short story.
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