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Submissions Welcome for Debut Issue premiering August 2011!
Slipstream Quarterly is a new online magazine which debuts in August 2011. If you wish to make a submission please send your short story or poetry of 800 to 4000 words maximum, preferably in word format to editor@slipstreamquarterly.com
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Surrealism
The first Surrealist work, according to leader Breton, was Magnetic Fields (Les Champs Magnétiques) (May–June 1919). Littérature contained automatist works and accounts of dreams. The magazine and the portfolio both showed their disdain for literal meanings given to objects and focused rather on the ...
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The Film We Dreamed
By Charles Taylor
February 19, 2008
“The last time he was in the United States,” begins a sentence in Steve Erickson’s 1993 Arc d’X, “driving aimlessly through Wyoming and the Dakotas for the purpose of being aimless, he heard the news of the Cataclysm the...
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Metarealism
Metarealism is synonymous to metaconscience, which means beyond psychological consciousness, beyond a subjective psychological polarized view of reality. Metarealism seeks to depict the reality which exist beyond that psychological subjective perspective. Metarealism proposes not only to communicate...
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Slipstream Quarterly is a new online magazine which debuts in August 2011. If you wish to make a submission please send your short story or poetry of 800 to 4000 words maximum, preferably in word format to editor@slipstreamquarterly.com
Please proofread your work and include a short biography to let the readers know a bit about you. If you wish you may also include a...
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Slipstream fiction has been referred to as “the fiction of strangeness,” which is as clear a definition as any others in wide use. Science fiction authors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, editors of Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, argue that cognitive dissonance is at the heart of slipstream, and that it is not so much a genre as a literary...
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The city had eyes.
It watched Elise from the glass squares set into its walls, walls that were sheer cliff faces of mortar and brick. She held her breath, waiting for them to blink. No, not eyes, only windows. She kept walking.
And the street was not a tongue, a long black ribbon of asphalt flesh that would roll her into the city’s hot jaws at any second. The parking...
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The Film We Dreamed
By Charles Taylor
February 19, 2008
“The last time he was in the United States,” begins a sentence in Steve Erickson’s 1993 Arc d’X, “driving aimlessly through Wyoming and the Dakotas for the purpose of being aimless, he heard the news of the Cataclysm the same way he heard all the news that year, on the car radio.” The...
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03 5th, 2010 |
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From the first line to the last, Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realist tale takes the reader on an epic journey, not only through the bizarre and sorrowful events in the lives of José Arcadio Buendía’s family, but also through the history and culture of South America.
The first thing you will notice when reading Márquez’s novel is the sheer quantity of events...
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I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. My parents were José de Sousa and Maria da Piedade. José de Sousa would have been my own name had not the Registrar, on his own inititiave added the nickname by which my...
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The first Surrealist work, according to leader Breton, was Magnetic Fields (Les Champs Magnétiques) (May–June 1919). Littérature contained automatist works and accounts of dreams. The magazine and the portfolio both showed their disdain for literal meanings given to objects and focused rather on the undertones, the poetic undercurrents present. Not only did they give ...
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Metarealism is synonymous to metaconscience, which means beyond psychological consciousness, beyond a subjective psychological polarized view of reality. Metarealism seeks to depict the reality which exist beyond that psychological subjective perspective. Metarealism proposes not only to communicate further than the pictorial aspect of the perception of other dimension...
