
Fiction and other writtings of various sorts, except for science
fiction, fantasy and horror as they are in their own files.   Posted 13
July, 1992.  All zines reviewed by Jerod Pore.  Send your fiction etc.
zines to Jerod Pore  1800 Market St. #141  San Francisco  Ca  94102-
6227.  email jerod23@well.sf.ca.us

This file is Shareright.  You may freely copy and distribute this
information as long as others may also freely copy and distribute it.

These are zines of stories and review.  All too often they include sappy
poetry, but not enough to qualify as poetry zines.  Mystery and humor
zines are included here as I have yet to receive enough of them to
warrant their own files, and no other file seemed appropriate.  Not all
of the stories in these zines are necessarily fictional, they may be
slice o'life and embellished biographies, but aren't really personal
zines (or perzines) which are in a file of their own.  My categorization
might be arbitrary, but I call them as I read them, imperfect as the
process might be.


Miscellaneous fiction zines

%Title:  a house united against itself
%Descr:  Retronostalgia muzak on acid.  The narcissist's wedding.  A
date with Bob Black.  Rev. Etc's first hardon.  The periodic table of
sexual perversions.  "From the heart of gilded Buddha saccarine love
comes down --- Sweet & Low."
%Info:   $2.00 each?,  Box 02024  Columbus OH  43202  20 pages, digest.

%Title:  Herstory
%Descr:  "A complete fiction."  An ultralite story that could fit on
less paper.
%Info:   2 stamps? Mark M  PO Box 504  Racine  WI 53401-0504  14 pages,
mini.

%Title:  The Urbanite  Number 1
%Descr:  Stories of the city.  The horrors of ice cream soda at a
drugstore.  15 years old in London.  Baseball in a parallel universe.
Vapid girl talk about death by overloud dance mixes.  Poetry.
%Info:   $3.50 to Urban Legend Press  PO Box 4737  Davenport  IA 52808
34 pages, digest.

%Title:  Meshuggah   Number 3
%Descr:  Lars Eighner's dumpster dives.  The scummy, dangerous life of
an exotic dancer.  Canadians hunting dingo in the Outback.  A Jewish
ghost story.  Reviews and letters.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Feh!  2226 Hennepin Ave S. #20  Minneapolis  MN
55405  12 pages, standard.

%Title:  Recon
%Descr:  War is hell, and this hell reaches out, grabs you by the ears
and rubs your face is the hot, bubbling tar pit of Vietnam.  Would you
be willing to cut off part of a sex organ to go home, only to eat the
couch in a VA hospital?  Fiction, but based on interviews with vets.
Awesome, and NOT for the faint of heart or stomach.  VERY recommended.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Judd Publications  10202 Tamarack Drive  Vienna
VA  22182  21 pages, digest.

%Title:  I (want you to) Suffer For My Art
%Descr:  Low life scum (hey, that's a compliment in these parts) stories
and poems told in a Charles Bukowski - Peter Plate sorta way.  If you'd
rather get a tattoo than pay the rent, or drive through Death Valley
than hold a steady job, then this is the slice o'life for you.
%Info:   $1.00 and 2 stamps to Blake Edwards 2537 Colgate Way  Riverside
CA  92507   40 pages, digest.

%Title:  Shockbox   Number 2
%Descr:  Fiction, poetry and drawings from people who've consummed too
many metal albums and videos.
%Info:   $2.50 each to C. F. Roberts  PO Box 7226  Nashua  NH  03062  46
pages, digest.

%Title:  Massacre Annex
%Descr:  Fragments of tales about street crazies and others just on the
psychotic verge of serial mutilation.  Somewhat better than Shockbox.
%Info:   $1.00 to C. F. Roberts  PO Box 7226  Nashua  NH  03062  18
pages, digest.

%Title:  OZ
%Descr:  Stream of conciousness from three people.
%Info:   $0.50 and a stamp to C. F. Roberts  PO Box 7226  Nashua  NH
03062  18 pages, digest.4

%Title:  The Nocturnal Lyric   Number 23
%Descr:  A bus ride to Stephen King hell.  An old man tells the children
about The Day of the Dead.  Dark stories, but neither gruesome nor
suspenseful enough to qualify for horror.  The publishers want bizarre
(and are most generous in the definition) in under 2000 words.  Plus
poetry.
%Info:   $1.25 to Box 2602  pasadena  CA  91102-2602  24 pages, digest.

%Title:  Zoomers
%Descr:  Short, sharp fiction indeed.  Scottish Labour Party morality
tales ranging in length from a paragraph to a page.  Depressing lives in
a Torry world.
%Info:   $3.00 each to Clocktower Press  17 West Terrance  South
Queensferry  West Lothian  EH30 9LL  Scotland.  22 pages, digest.

%Title:  Potpourri   Volume 4 Number 2
%Descr:  Personal stories of life in America.  Love, marriage, death,
travel to third world countries.  Poetry, letters and little know facts
about Ezra Pound.
%Info:   $12.00 a year to Potpourri  P.O. Box 8278  Prairie Village  KS
66208  16 pages, tabloid.

%Title:  Fire Raisers  Number 3
%Descr:  Slackers in Britain:  bars, clubs, fast cars through the
countryside, the dole, squatting, street crazies.  Plus zine reviews.
%Info:   95p each to A. Fitchett  64 Lugar Place  Troon  Strathclyde
KA10 7EA  24 pages A4 (mostly).

%Title:  Small Press Lynx
%Descr:  Depressing poems, rants and fragments culled from the Canadian
small press.
%Info:   $4.00 (?) Chris Faiers  Box 67  Station H  Toronto  Ontario
M4C 5H7  40 pages, standard.

%Title:  Friction Quasi-Quarterly  Volume 3 Number 3
%Descr:  Modern American life really sucks with the Puritans, the
political correctness, the TV and the greedy doctors.  Read all about it
here.  Despairingly entertaining.
%Info:   $8.00 a year to Wampus Productions, 6130 Calico Pool Lane
Burke  VA  22015  12 pages, standard.

%Title:  Browbeat  Volume 2   Number 1
%Descr:  Browbeat is packed full of good stuff.  Dan Leo's "Tales of
Father Schwartz" has an alcoholic preist solving mysteries in the
twilight zone.  "I Like Them Old" is exactly what you think it is.
"Who, Me?" is James Joyce as a cat burglar, and Mike Walsh's "Danny's
Encyclopedia of Dream Interpretation" is like exceptionally funny White
Boy.  Plus, Ted Stamas' page long reviews of 6 books for a buck from the
Salvation Army.
%Info:   $3.50 each to Valis  444 Levering Mill Rd.  Merion  PA  19066
40 pages, standard

%Title:  Unshaved Truths  Number 2
%Descr:  FWIW, a vast improvement over number 1.  C.A. Rumbaut continues
the awesome "Diary of a Prgrammer."  Prostitutes for anarchy.  How to
enjoy the economic depression (see also Food For Thought).  Desk clerks
getting conned into COINTELPRO.  Love and Mormons in space.  Also
poetry, commentary and reviews.
%Info:   $5.00 each to Jon Lebkowsky  2507 Roehampton Drive  Austin  TX
78745-6964  47 pages, standard


Humor zines.  Most of which, alas, aren't very funny.

%Title:  Phun!  Volume 1  Number 3
%Descr:  Many decrepit puns, as well as newer less funny ones.
%Info:   $6.00 a year to Sunil Kapahi  4642 Dellrose Dr  Dunwoody  GA
30338  3 pages, standard

%Title:  Pah!   Number 66
%Descr:  Mark does these surreal exposes, like Howard Cosell storming
off the set of Woody Allen's "Everything you wanted to know about
sex....." because he didn't get to play the winning sperm.  Pretty
funny.
%Info:   SASE to Mark Morelli  702 Mae St.  Kent OH  44240   1 page,
standard

%Title:  The Silly Club Rag
%Descr:  Fairly surreal and silly.  A giggle here, a guffaw there.  How
to create a Blues name from columns of Handicaps, Fruits or Vegetables
and Presidential Names is very funny, but I would have little faith in
the musical success of a singer named Narcoleptic Lentil Nixon.
%Info:   $1.00 each (?) to PO Box 536583  Orlando FL  32853  8 pages,
standard

%Title:  Funny Pages  Number 28
%Descr:  "To Delight and Offend."  I believe they take the latter part
more seriously than the former.  Aubrey Beardsley covers, while amusing,
don't help much.  OTOH, Ace Backwards shows up frequently, and there's
often a page or two of *very* funny stuff.
%Info:   $1.00 and an SASE each  to PO Box 317025  Dayton OH  45431  10
pages, standard

%Title:  The National Public Humor Newsletter  Volume V Number 2
%Descr:  Alledged humor, mostly in the guise of fabricated political
news.
%Info:   $12.00 a year  to PO Box 21  Cheshire CT  06410  8 neon red and
yellow pages, standard

%Title:  A Very Small Magazine  Number 17
%Descr:  Very small, yet very funny.  This issue is the Small Press
Spectacular, the best non-existant magazines around:  The Monthly Rag;
Laura (The Official Laura Palmer Fanzine);  High Circulation (for
Librarians); plus the Politically Correct Feminist Book Club and Primal
Man Book Club.  Complete with excerpts. "Recently, we caught up with
conceptual artist Margarene Crisco as she was installing her new piece,
"BLOOD" at the Period Peace Galleries.  Ms Crisco had much to say about
being a woman, an artist and menstruating."
%Info:   $1.25 each to Beth Blevins  P.O. Box 221  Greenbelt  MD  20768
20 pages, mini.

%Title:  The Periodic Journal of Bibliography   Volume 1 Number 2
%Descr:  Droll and dry, this one *looks* like a compendium of forgotten
works and artists.  Focus on I. B. Erlaufssohn:  A painter of signs.
Reviews of number books ("Everybody Loves to Count!"
"Ezerkileneszozhuszonketto:  Counting in Magyar Made Simple" and "A
Symbolic Dictionary of Arabic Numerals").
'While Mr. Brosz's scholarship is unassailable, his prose in unwieldy.
Chapter Six, "On the Pre-Deodorized Applications of Logistical
Randomization Phenomenology," has left more than one ontologically
disturbed reader in its wake.'
Additions to the ever-growing bibliography, like: Dullard, Elroy.
"Diuretics"  New York:  Spillior, Rithraugh and Plugg, 1958.
%Info:   $8.00 a year to PJB  PO Box 669 Kendal Square  Cambridge MA
02142  28 pages, standard.


Mystery and Hard-Boiled Crime and Detective zines; original fiction,
reviews and markets.

%Title:  Hardboiled  Number 13
%Descr:  Hardboiled crime stories, indeed.  All short, some just ending
all of a sudden like we're supposed to know the cliche or something.
All well-written and hard-hitting.  In prison or out, the lives of
fictionalized gangsters and other petty criminals is never pretty but
entertaining.
%Info:   $5.00 each to Gryphon Publications  P.O. Box 209  Brooklyn  NY
11228-0209  84 pages, digest.

%Title:  The Drood Review of Mystery  Number 116
%Descr:  Loads of reviews of mystery novels.  Detailed reviews, capsule
reviews, previews.  I want to know if E. Howard Hunt got the title of
his book "Body Count" from the Ice-T song of the same name.
%Info:   $2.00 each to The Drood Review  Box 8872  Boston MA 02114  20
pages, standard.


Zines that are dedicated to a single author.

%Title:  Sherlockian Tidbits  Number 18
%Descr:  I place this zine here for lack of a better place.  Arnold
reprints every single reference to Sherlock Holmes he can find,
regardless of how oblique, from a System's Design manual to cartoon
characters with deerstalker caps and magnifying glasses.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Arnold Korotkin  12 Glenwood Road  Upper
Montclair  NJ  07043  12 pages, standard.

%Title:  The Thoreau Society Bulletin  Number 197
%Descr:  Reprints of contemporary letters, newspaper and magazine
articles by or about Thoreau.  The ever-growing bibliography.  Doings of
the society and how things are holding up at Walden.
%Info:   $20.00 a year to The Thoreau Society, 156 Belknap Street
Concord  MA  01742  8 pages, standard.

%Title:  The Spear Shaker Review  Number 8
%Descr:  I for one am certainly amazed that people care whether or not
Shakespeare wrote any or all of the plays and poetry that today bear his
name.  With evidence as puzzling as that found in political conspiracy
zines, such as Latin acrostics and obscure drawings of heraldric crests,
they put forth the theory that Edward de Vere (who?) was the most likely
author.
%Info:   $24.00 a year to Stephanie Caruana  P.O. Box 308  Napanoch NY
12458   28 pages, standard.

%Title:  The New Censorship  Volume 2 Number 6
%Descr:  This issue is the text of a speech given by Andrei Codrescu, to
the Society for Photographic Education, about growing up in Romania and
why he hates photography.  Every other page is a photo of Alex Katz.
Classic Codrescu, I sure can't figure out the difference between
tourists and terrorists?
%Info:   $3.00 each to 2953 Wyandot #10  Denver  CO 80211-3844   22
pages, standard.

%Title:  Linington Lineup  Volume 9 Number 1
%Descr:  For fans of the late Elizabeth Linington a.k.a. Anne Blaisdell,
Lesley Egan, Egan O'Neill and Dell Shannon.  Reprints of letters and
assorted trivia about her.
%Info:   $12.00 a year to Rinehart S. Potts  1223 Glen Terrace
Glassboro NJ  08028-1315   16 pages, standard.


Book and zine review zines.

%Title:  Fugitive Factsheet  Number 1
%Descr:  In-your-face reviews of in-your-face publications, the small
press take on the small press.  Better than nothing.  They promise to
review everything and send trade copies, just like the old F5.
%Info:   $2.00 each to 2704 French place #202  Austin TX  78722   8
pages, standard.

%Title:  Remark  Number 5
%Descr:  LONG reviews and essays on everything from the near-fatal car
vs. Editor Laurel Speer accident, to the death of magazines and a
variety of books on diverse subjects.
%Info:   $2.75 each to Again & Again Press  P.O. Box 20041  Cherokee
Station  New York  NY  10028   44 pages, standard.

%Title:  Hungry Mind Review  Number 20
%Descr:  Lengthy, detailed reviews of books of interest to Midwestern
SNAGs.  Lotsa poetry books, teenage mothers, PC kid books, why meat is
evil, urban America as the third world, communities and chimpanzees.
%Info:   $12.00 a year to 1648 Grand Avenue  St. Paul MN  55105  72
pages, tabloid

%Title:  New Hope International Review  Volume 15 Number 2
%Descr:  Very much like the old F5.  Smaller, and with more of an
interest in poetry (or, maybe all the 'poets' of the small press world
are sending their stuff to those who can at least pretend to appreciate
it).  Very upbeat reviews.  An excellent source for primarily, but not
exclusively U.K. zines, cassettes, arefacts, books and software.
They've got so many reviewers (19 listed!), somebody is bound to like
what gets sent.  Everything received will be reviewed or, if received
late, listed.  Recommended.
%Info:   $5.00 or L2.00 each to   NHI  20 Werneth Avenue  Gee Cross
Hyde  Cheshire  SK14 5NL  38 pages, A5.

%Title:  Book Notes  Winter 1992
%Descr:  Books for Children and Young Adults by authors and/or
illustrators who live in Minnesota, Iowa or Wisconsin.
%Info:   $1.00 (?) each to Center for Children's and Young Adult Books
Library Media Education Department  Box 20  Mankato State University
Mankato MN  56002  6 recycled blue standard pages.

%Title:  Ballast Quarterly Review   Volume 6 Number 4
%Descr:  Reviews and excerpts from an eclectic assortment of
publications and some software.  This issue leans towards graphic design
and publishing.
%Info:   Donation to Roy R. Behrens 2022 X Avenue  Dysart IA 52224-9767
16 recycled long digest pages.

%Title:  Reading for Pleasure    Number 19
%Descr:  This is the special Holloween issue, so the focus is on horror,
murder and such.  Nice reviews of a variety of fiction and non-fiction.
Somebody has been keeping track of Star Trek: TNG stardates to see if
they increment with the shows (really mixed up in 87 and 88, got their
shit together in 89).  What's most excellent about this zine is that,
like the file you're reading now, it's available electronically (on BBS
across the country), it's got a lot of contributors, and it's not
copyrighted.  Even better, there is a printed version.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Cindy Bartorillo  1030 Baughman's Lane Suite 303
Frederick MD  21702   38 pages, standard.  email
74766.1206@CompuServe.COM

%Title:  Further State(s) of the art    Volume 1 Number 2
%Descr:  Essays and reviews of works by people left out of the baby-boom
glory:  women, People of Color (or whatever the term is when you read
this), People of unusual religions.  Interview with Robert Siegle,
Rastafarians in Space, reviews and more reviews.
%Info:   $2.50 each to Philip G. Leggiere  100 Manhattan Avenue  Suite
1210  Union City NJ  07087  16 pages, standard.

%Title:  Books Are Everything!    Volume 4 Number 4
%Descr:  All about collecting mass-market paperbacks in the post-war
(1946-1966) era.  Who wants what, who has what and how much money should
be changing hands.  But BAE is more than just a catalog of wish lists.
Harlan Ellison writes a long letter about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and
Japanese translations.  Biographies and bibliographies.  Many, many
reprints of cover art.  Articles about covers and movie posters.  And,
importantly, 16 pages of Lesbiana:  a checklist of Lesplotation books
from 1956-1966.  Two pages of lurid color covers.  Data on books written
by Marion Zimmer Bradley (!?!) under several pseudonyms.  Classic sleaze
like "Dykes on Bikes" "Satan's Daughters" "Lesbo Gym" and "Women in
Prison."
%Info:   $25.00 a year to R.C. & Elwanda Holland  302 Martin Drive
Richmond KY 40475  84 pages, standard.

%Title:  Self Publisher!    Volume 3 Number 4
%Descr:  Yet another zine review zine, and we all hope for the best.
Small press news and letters.  13 pages of zine (mostly comix) reviews.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Ian Shires  P.O. Box 360041  Stongsville OH
44136.  24 pages, half-legal.


Markets and resources for writers.  Most are regional or of a narrow
focus.

%Title:  Scavenger's Newsletter    Number 92
%Descr:  Probably the best source of markets for cheap SF/F/H magazines.
Not exclusively small press, nor exclusively Science
Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.  Updates on where some zines are at, who pays
what and how much stuff costs.  Plus letters, reviews, average response
time from magazines and tips on writing ("1 Don't go for the grossout
with your opening shot.  'I saw Francis Boniface yesterday,' she said
between mouthfuls of calf's brains.").
%Info:   $1.50 each to Janet Fox  519 Ellinwood  Osage City KS  66523-
1329  32 pages, half-legal.

%Title:  Christian Vision    January 1992
%Descr:  All the markets, big and small, for a single subject matter.
%Info:   $5.00 a year to Skysong Press  RR1  Washago Ontario  L0K 2B0
16 pages, digest.

%Title:  Housewife-Writer's Forum    Volume 4 Number 6
%Descr:  Caution:  the title may change.  Punctuation guidlines, writers
groups, markets, research hints, good advice for everybody.  This issue
has the contest winners.  Great categories!  Imitation Erma Bombeck,
Redbook Rejects and Humorous Poetry..
%Info:   $4.00 each to HWF  PO Box 780  Lyman WY  82937.  44 pages,
sorta comic book sized.

%Title:  Rough Draft!    Volume 11 Number 8
%Descr:  Not to be confused with the Cacophony Society publication of
the same name.  News, tips, markets and such by, for and about
Cincinnati area writers.
%Info:   $0.75 each to CWP PO Box 29920 Cincinnati OH  45229   12 pages,
standard.

%Title:  Canadian Author & Bookman    Volume 67 Number 2
%Descr:  Breaking into sports writing.  Interview with Cora Taylor.
Writing textbooks (I hope to God Candian textbooks are better than the
crap I had to read).  Reviews, markets and some humor.
%Info:   $4.50 each to Canadian Authors Association  275 Slater Street
Suite 500  Ottawa Ontario  K1P 5H9

%Title:  Working Writers    Volume 1 Number 12
%Descr:  Half to full-page long profiles on new writers, magazines,
newspapers with interesting markets, "View From the Ledge," foreign
sales.  Excellent resource material.
%Info:   $3.00 each to Working Writers  P.O. Box 353  West Bend WI 53095
8 pages, standard.

%Title:  Maine In Print    Volume VI  Number 11
%Descr:  Profiles and reviews of Maine writers.  News, including
publishing the names of 18 printers to squeemish to handle a book
entitled "Gay Sex."
%Info:   $20.00 a year to Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance  12
Pleasant Street  Brunswick ME 04011  12 pages, tabloid.

%Title:  Laughing Bear Newsletter  Number 45
%Descr:  A continuing guide on how to publish a zine for a profit.  Good
luck!  Publishing intentionally and efficiently.  Self-promotion and
announcements.  Send an SASE for the guide to self-publishing poetry &
fiction.
%Info:   $8.00 a year to Tom Person  P.O. Box 36159  Denver CO  80236  3
pages, standard.
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