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A DARKNESS E-ZINE FOR CREATIVE MINDS...
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 The Winter 2004 issue of the Midnight Times (MT) is essentially a new beginning of sorts. MT is now listed in the 2004 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market, and as a result I have been receiving a steady stream of submissions since October. All of the story submissions have been good; unfortunately, I can only publish a select few each issue due to space considerations, and this is a quarterly publication due to time considerations. I'm also very excited to announce that one of the new features I have added is a Writer's Discussion Group message board. After having a lot of correspondence with JJ Collins--the very first MT contributor--we decided it would be a
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great idea to provide an online forum for those of you who want to talk about writing. I have also done quite a bit of behind the scenes updating to the MT web pages. In particular, I updated the Submission Guidelines page, adding additional information about the MT mission and the theme of this publication. I have really enjoyed reading all the stories that have been submitted so far, and down the road I look forward to publishing many new writers and their works. In fact, I have gotten so excited about all this that it has inspired me to revise and publish another one of my own short stories, CHERI, which I suppose is a tale of how idealistic expectations inevitably set people up for even bigger disappointments.--JFM 12/15/03
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NEW FICTION!
Bags of Garbage by Carol Michaels. Carol began writing a couple of years ago, strictly for pleasure, with the goal of seeing her writing in print. She has had one short story published in a small circulation magazine. Mysteries were her primary focus, but she soon branched out to any form that suited a story or idea, preferring a style and subject that the average person can relate to. Early morning walks in a nearby neighborhood inspired the short story "Bags of Garbage".
Logical Impossibility by Gerry Doyle. Gerry lives in Chicago, Ill., where he owns a parking permit but not a car. He works as a copy editor at the Chicago Tribune, brews--and drinks--his own beer, roots against the White Sox, plays the trumpet and rides the Blue Line. He occasionally finds time to write fiction and sleep. A graduate of the U. of Kansas, he holds degrees in journalism and philosophy. His dislike of symbolic logic is all that kept him from writing a proof instead of a short story.
Author works are presented in the PDF document format. If you need Acrobat Reader to view PDF files, click here and download it from the Adobe web site.
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NEW POETRY!
Echo Sigh by Joseph Griffin. Joseph moves across the country wherever work takes him. The one constant has been paper and pen which he wields whenever time allows. He's had several poems published through the International Library of Poetry and several college literary magazines. He hopes to one day become a novelist and playwright, but poetry will always be in his heart.
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If you are a new or beginning writer interested in an opportunity to get published, and you have written work with a "darkness" theme, I encourage you to take a look at the submission guidelines for the Midnight Times.
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 I just added a new Writer's Resources web page to the Midnight Times that provides links to web sites featuring resources and information for writers. I spent a lot of time searching for only the best web sites I could find, so this is a good selection. The MT Writer's Discussion Group message board is also now available. I provided a few forum topics to get things started. I'm new to the software myself, so I guess we will work out the bugs together. I hope we find it useful.--JFM 1/8/04
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The Epic Café
Think of the Epic Café as that lonely coffee shop off the beaten path. It's located somewhere down a dark side alley from what used to be Main Street a century ago. It's a place you only know about because some languid stranger who likes to frequent poetry readings shoved a flyer in your face at the local bookstore. The Café pulls together the literary threads of the Tower in a unique place that provides a single point of virtual access. The main pathways outward from this discrete basement local are Webhead's CD-Rom Menu, Vampire Compendium--which leads to the darkest recesses of the imagination, and the Art Gallery--a place where visual inspiration and creative thought meld within the vast reaches of Cyberspace. This is the printed word enhanced by the multidimensional nature of the Web. Feel free to explore, but realize you do so at your own risk...
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The Tome
 The Tome, featuring original works by Webhead, is an online preview of fiction, poetry, and other works by the Midnight Times editor. The Tome is a work-in-progress, and I contribute new material whenever I can find time. Check below in the "Poetry" and "Fiction" sections for a selection of works that I am currently highlighting. My New Year's resolution is to contribute considerably more work in 2004.
Wasteland
"Le Prince d' Aquitaine à la tour abolie¹/These fragments I have shored against my ruins..." Two lines of T. S. Eliot best describe this dark inferno of The Midnight Times. Herein the Wasteland you will find the eternal depth from which we cannot escape. This is darkness everlasting.
¹ "The Prince of Aquitaine in the ruined tower." One of the cards in the Tarot pack is the "tower struck by lightning."
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FICTION
Admittedly, I need to get more of my short fiction online, but so far I have a couple of short shorts (less than 1,250 words) in Pavilion and Vampire posted. My most recent addition is a chapter excerpt (the "Prologue") from the currently unfinished novel Nightmare. I also recently published the short story "And He Died Laughing...". I plan to publish another chapter from Nightmare very soon.
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POETRY
I have published more poetry because poems are shorter and therefore it's easier to finish a final revision prior to converting to HTML format. Recent additions to The Tome are Pharaoh of the Pyramids, and the second section of the epic poem Wasteland (i.e. "Eternal Dream"). I most recently published "A Moment of Your Time", and plan to add the third installment to Wasteland soon.
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