The Washington Post is reporting that the justice department is investigating Google’s deal with publishers and authors for exclusive rights to digitizing all orphaned books. Read the article, it’s important. I’m not sure what is behind Google’s thinking in all of this. Maybe all tech companies get too big and greedy after awhile, but I […]
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The Great “Copyright” (Freedom of Speech) Debate
Newspapers on Washington Avenue (Minneapolis) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA by Susan Lesch. Used under GNU Free Documentation License. Editors Weblog.org has an interesting article: “Us: The great copyright debate” and other sites are coming out reporting editors calling for new laws. Read this above article, I think it is going to impact everyone on the […]
Looking for magazine for kids? Here are our 10 Best Magazines for kids.
So I wanted to find a couple of kids magazines for my son and daughter. I thought “What could be more fun than getting a cool science magazine or literary magazine on their level! Ugh,
Story: Hanging by Beaton Galafa
Death.
It came one evening when everyone else was sleeping. It crawled in the dark outside, hissing along the night winds that were shaking leaves and branches
51 Word Summer Story Contest
Ok, this is our 51 Word Summer Story Contest. We have run many of these in the past. We usually offer a non-cash prize for the contest and publication. The last horror contest we ran we were not able to make good for our winners. We were publishing a print issue of our magazine, and […]
Featured Lit Mag Zizzle
Zizzle is a literary magazine devoted to publishing quality, innovative fiction for young readers.
Story: Spirit in the Subway by Mark Tulin
The little boy could hardly keep his eyes open. He lay on his Uncle’s lap during the subway ride home. He always liked resting his head on his lap; it was safe there. He looked up at the ceiling of the train and stared at its empty space.
Story: Delivery by Denis Bell
“It came out positive.” “You’re kidding!” It would seem so. The news was surprising to Ruth because Sandra was old. Not Betty White old, but easily old enough to be Ruth’s mom.
A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old porte-monnaie gave her a feeling of importance such as she had not enjoyed for years.
25 word Summer Horror Contest
Welcome to our 25 word Summer Horror Contest. We hope that by the fall we will be able to do another Halloween Horror contest, and we hope to be able to pull off our print issue this summer,
Exquisite Corpse: for writers, we all need a break.
Welcome to our game for writers. It is an Exquisite Corpse. An Exquisite Corpse is a writing or art game where you complete the story, poem or drawing in parts
Continue the Story
We haven’t done one of these in a long time. Our Haiku, Horror Story, and 2 Sentence Stories are doing so well, we thought we’d add one more, Continue the Story…
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