May 2012
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WatchSPECIAL PREVIEW OF SALT HILL 29
Salt Hill 29—our spring 2012 issue and one of our largest to date—is evidence of how capricious and flimsy our perceived reality is, how gray and clouded the separation between phenomenological existence and the science fictions looming behind it. Either which way, the work in this issue pursues the out-there dimensions. Stories from J. Robert Lennon, Katie Jean...
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New Sentences for the Testing of Typewriters by J....
Fetching killjoy Mavis Wax was probed on the quay.
“Yo, never mix Zoloft with Quik,” gabs Doc Jasper.
One zany quaff is vodka mixed with grape juice and blood.
Zitty Vicki smugly quipped in her journal, “Fay waxes her butt.”
Hot Wendy gave me quasi-Kreutzfeld-Jacob pox.
Jack’s pervy moxie quashed Bob’s new Liszt fugue.
I backed Zevy’s qualms over Janet’s wig of phlox.
Tipsy Bangkok...
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Interview with Green Mountains Review →
We love lit mags talking shop. Here’s a great interview with GMR’s Senior Editor Neil Shepard at Portal del Sol. ”San Sebastian,” a story by GMR’s fiction editor—Jacob White—appears in Salt Hill 29.
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Internal Monument by G.C. Waldrep
A man was sad—for himself, maybe for someone else, maybe he had lost something, or someone—so he hired some workmen to erect a monument. He was not surprised when they came calling early one morning, while he was still in bed, but he was surprised when, with a practiced slash, the foreman opened his chest. “We build the monument inside,” the foreman said. “But who will see the...
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When Holding You Isn't Enough by Katie Jean...
Our Father has his head in his hands, he is weeping into his hands, he is rubbing his eyes with the back of his gloves riddled with fiber glass and wood splinters and mud mud mud and wiping his hands on the backs of his pants that we cannot tell are jeans until much later when our Mother has to cut them off of his legs because they are melted and singed and gristled on his body and he is laughing...
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Robot Love Diorama from H_NGM_N #11
by Caroline Cabrera
You’re a robot, but I keep trying to fill up your chest.
I hate an empty cage, the way all that space
just rattles around, the way there’s almost enough room
for a garden, a complex system—
that potato is heart-sized;
those roots are growing down just like I’d imagined.
You corrode. You are made of such elements.
I oil your joints with Coca-Cola and you shine
so much...
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Nice Review of Salt Hill 28 from Vouched Books →
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“Even though I know better than to trust appearances, especially posed, studio-airbrushed, heathered-backdrop appearances, still: the Gal-Chens had the look of a happy family. Maybe not particularly sophisticated, or good-looking, or fashionable, but still, happy. Even now I do not know if that was, or is, true or not. If they were, indeed, happy. But who can ever really know about...
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Notes on Writing, by Ulrich Haarburste (SH 29...
Where do you like to start your stories? In scene, with dialogue?
Often I start them in the bath. Oh, I see. I think Sam Goldwyn said you should start with an explosion and build up to a climax. I like to start with a social dilemma and build to an apotheosis.
Does the character of Roy Orbison secretly already know he’s about to be wrapped in clingfilm before it even happens?
No, I do not think...
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Roy in Clingfilm by Ulrich Haarbürste
Check out Ulrich Haarbürste’s very first Roy in Clingfilm story. Salt Hill 29 features a new installment in the series!
You can also read an interview with Haarbürste over at Vice.
It always starts the same way. I am in the garden airing my terrapin Jetta when he walks past my gate, that mysterious man in black.
‘Hello Roy,’ I say. ‘What are you doing in...
