CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Gigantic Indoors print issue #3 |
06/14/10 |
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| Mudrooms, living rooms, interior decorators, people trapped in small boxes, animals let loose in large auditoriums, the insides of buildings, the insides of brains and souls, blueprints, agoraphobia, cuckoo clocks, and any and all other indoor situations both real and imagined are humbly requested. |
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UNTIL I FIND IT (Third Installment) by Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro |
06/14/10 |
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| The skies black with birds' mouths. |
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ARRIVAL OF THE BEES by Jen Gann |
06/14/10 |
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| Sometimes we would sprinkle dirt atop it and hum a little song, maybe to bless it, maybe to distract ourselves. |
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RATHER THAN THESE by Callista Buchen |
06/14/10 |
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| Rather than a baseball or a wallet, a fist going through drywall... |
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CALL ME TENDER by Brooks Sterritt |
06/14/10 |
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| But this was different—it was like wrestling a man, only stronger and more flexible. |
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GIBBY HAYNES VS. JOE WENDEROTH: A TALK |
05/09/10 |
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| Clown comes undressed! Clown is terror. Clown is complete and cannot be altered. Clown is indivisible. |
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UNTIL I FIND IT (Second Installment) by Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro |
05/09/10 |
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| I said, Bird who took these heads? |
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BLACKBIRD by Erik Morsink |
05/09/10 |
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| They saw crows, doves, a little bird with a yellow tee-shirt... |
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JESSE by M. Callen |
05/09/10 |
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| Jesse making crow calls, balanced atop a tent spike. Jesse lying on the roof of the chicken coop, his arm hanging through the skylight. |
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THE OCEAN ON TELEVISION by Mike Young |
05/09/10 |
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| These days, screens show just live feeds of shoreline. You like the Pacific mostly, the Arctic when you're drunk. |
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GIGANTIC ONLINE APRIL 2010 |
04/01/10 |
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| Sam Lipsyte interviewed, a new illustrated book series from Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro, and five more American biographies. |
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BRING IT UP TO A NICE LEVEL: SAM LIPSYTE INTERVIEWED by Lincoln Michel |
Print Issue 2 |
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| I've found that the only time that it's ever really worked, come back in an interesting way in fiction, is when I've forgotten. |
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UNTIL I FIND IT (First Installment) by Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro |
04/01/10 |
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| We were "matrimonially distributed" by Ursuline nuns among the hungry men of the new world. |
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AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIES, ILLUSTRATED by John Dermot Woods |
04/01/10 |
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| Five full elegant illustrations of the American biographies. |
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ENOLA GAY by John Minichillo |
04/01/10 |
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| In 1976 he piloted a restored B-29 in a Texas air show in a re-enactment that included a fake mushroom cloud. |
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FRAN ALEXANDER by Lauren Spohrer |
04/01/10 |
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| Who among us has not lain in bed, drunk, listening to rap? |
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JAMES BALDWIN by Claudette Bakhtiar |
04/01/10 |
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| This he will do from then on in any group, except when it is better to run, which, over time, begins to feel more natural. |
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POOR RICHARD NIXON’S ALMANACK by Dan Moreau |
04/01/10 |
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| Woodward & Bernstein is not a law firm. |
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THOMAS JEFFERSON by Franklin Winslow |
04/01/10 |
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| The missing in question varies depending on the certificate referenced. |
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GIGANTIC ISSUE 2 AND LAUNCH PARTY |
02/24/10 |
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| All the latest info on the new Gigantic and our Feb. 27th launch party. |
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GIGANTIC AMERICA ONE-SENTENCE PROSE PREVIEW |
02/24/10 |
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| One random sentence taken from each of our stories in Gigantic issue 2.
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A GIGANTIC ANNOUNCEMENT and a call for submissions |
01/27/10 |
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| In anticipation of Gigantic #2, the America issue, Uncle Gigantic wants YOU! to send us your biographies of famous Americans. |
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LET'S GO SLEEP JAPAN SOON by Saša Stanišić |
01/27/10 |
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| In Oxford, Mississippi, we slept in Faulkner's spacious garden and—believe me or not—on that day in Faulkner's garden, I forgot what the deal was with our sleeping. |
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THE MAN WITH TWO HEADS by Saša Stanišić |
01/27/10 |
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| Where are the beer crates? asks the left head, / the right head takes a look around. / The man's math skills are above average, / he whispers numbers in a way I would write songs for you |
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THE RED WAGON by Brian Hurley |
01/27/10 |
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| Before taking it out someone had to sweep a hand along its inner rail to pull apart any spiderwebs. |
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LITTLE BIG CREMASTER by Paul Willerton |
01/27/10 |
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| Gigantic is excited to present an exclusive preview of Paul Willerton's Little Big Cremaster 3 as well as the full Little Big Cremaster 2. Both videos are part of a series of works based on Matthew Barney's celebrated Cremaster Cycle. |
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Gigantic Mini-Monster Issue |
10/30/09 |
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| BLOOD APPEARS BLACK IN THE MOONLIGHT: Brian Evenson on the Imperatives of the Modern Horror Film by Adrian Van Young SKINWALKERS PAIN a video by Michael Nason and Brian Wilmont NOTHING HAS CHANGED ABOUT ME by Carmen Lau ONE DAY ALL YOUR TEETH WILL BE MINE by Sasha Fletcher WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? a video by Max Juren and Jill Pangallo |
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BLOOD APPEARS BLACK IN THE MOONLIGHT: Brian Evenson on the Imperatives of the Modern Horror Film by Adrian Van Young |
10/30/09 |
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| Right. It's like watching Cube. How many times can you watch Cube? |
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SKINWALKERS PAIN a video by Michael Nason and Brian Wilmont |
10/30/09 |
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| Legendary beasts dwell in the ancient hills and valleys of New Mexico. |
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NOTHING HAS CHANGED ABOUT ME by Carmen Lau |
10/30/09 |
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| I’ve jammed bricks into the mouths of regular corpses. There’s no telling about anything. |
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ONE DAY ALL YOUR TEETH WILL BE MINE by Sasha Fletcher |
10/30/09 |
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| I will bury you up to your neck she said. I said But where. She said The Bathtub. |
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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? a video by Max Juren and Jill Pangallo |
10/30/09 |
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| A remake of the pinnacle scene from the 1983 vampire flick The Hunger. |
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ON MEAT OVER MEAT: DINNER WITH GARY SHTEYNGART By James Yeh |
from print issue #1 |
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| Old meat. The Saul Bellow of meats. I don’t know. Sometimes I look at some of these writers, pictures of older writers, I just see all the meat that’s gone into them. Mordecai Richler, case in point. The man looked like a meat at the end of his life. I mean, you know, just put him on a grill and he’s served. |
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TALKING ABOUT THINKING: a fairly long interview with Clancy Martin by Lincoln Michel |
9/21/09 |
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| I think if you are a writer and you want to immediately grab hold of your reader’s repressed consciousness, of her or his own terror and despair of suffering and the meaninglessness of life and the consciousness of their own failure and the inevitability of death, all you have to do: Yellow. Just bring in yellow and you’ve got it just like that. |
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THE SOFT DESTRUCTION OF A SINGLE ENTITY OVER A PERIOD OF TIME ONE MIGHT CALL, AGING by Michael James Martin |
9/21/09 |
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| She called me horrible. I knew I was. I knew she was, also, but her saying it and me not, it didn’t seem like she was all that horrible. I had a hammer in my hand. |
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CLEARING (UXO) by Thomas Doyle |
9/14/09 |
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| a sculpture in miniature from his Reclamations series. |
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FORECAST 42: CHAPTER 18 by Shya Scanlon |
9/14/09 |
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| Chapter 18 of Shya Scanlon's web-serialized novel. |
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WASP BUZZING AND WATER SHEDDING, JIMMY GROWING WET by J.A. Tyler |
9/14/09 |
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| On their porch, where Jimmy and his dad they sometimes sit and watch the sun go down, watch the night come on, there are pockets of open space like shallow pools, and Jimmy, sometimes it is his job to get out the hose and put his thumb on the end and force the wasps' nests from those places. |
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THREE STORIES by Shane Jones |
from print issue #1 |
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| Pants McDonovan always tried on every pair of pants in my store. He was looking for the perfect pair, but his waist was too big and his legs too short. Also, we lived in a village of giants. |
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