Nathan Tyree: stories for replicants

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The second print issue of magazine of the dead is out now. The second anthology from Magazine of the Dead. Stories for Replicants contains all of the recent stories from MotD, plus several new stories that have not appeared on line. It features work by: Darran Anderson, Peter Wild, Harold Wilson, Christopher Allan Death, Norman A. Rubin, James Horn, Aurelio Rico Lopez III, Edward Rodosek, Terry Doss, James Riser, Nathan Tyree, Joey Ketcham, and a classic reprint from E.A. Poe.

You can find it at: http://www.lulu.com/content/777237

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Nathan Tyree: Mama TRied

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I spent my morning at a funeral. My cousin, Roy, died Friday. He and I were the same age and grew up together. We were close as children, but less so as adults. Roy saw himself as an outlaw and worked pretty hard to stay in different levels of trouble most of his life. We had drifted, although I remained very close with his parents (my aunt and uncle).

In the last year Roy had really grown up. It took until he was 33, but he was starting to be an adult: staying out of jail, taking care of his son, helping his parents with the bills.

Friday his dad took the day off work and they went fishing. They spent the day together, then around three Roy asked his dad to drop him off at The Eagles club (a private club/ bar where Roy was a member). He had a beer, then walked next door to the bait shop to pick up some stuff, then started the two mile walk home.

A young woman pulled over and offered him a ride. I don’t know if he realized how drunk she was. Very, was how drunk she was. It was about a mile before she went off the road and hit a tree. He died, she lived.

Anyway, the funeral was this morning.

I hadn’t cried. Even when my uncle hugged me so tight that I thought certain my ribs would snap and I felt his tears against my neck and he said over and over I love you; even then I didn’t cry. Then, after the fucking funeral was over and I was driving to work scanning the stations on the radio. I heard Merle haggard (at least I think it’s Merle Haggard) singing “Mama Tried.” That’s when I cried. I have no clue why.

I did get one tiny piece of good news today. Edifice Wrecked is going to publish a story of mine called “Notes Toward a Unified Philosophy.”

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Nathan Tyree: More stories for you

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Magazine of the Dead has a few new stories up. There's the weird "Jesse Garron" by Darran Anderson; the experimental "PF-FIS" by Terry Doss; and the darkly tragic "The Lek" by Peter Wild. Check these out. You'll laugh, you'll puzzle, you'll weep.

Magazineofthedead.blogspot.com

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Nathan Tyree: Flash and Tideland

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In the e-mail today I got a PDF of the completed cover for The Flash. I’ve mentioned it here before, but for new comers: The Flash, edited by Peter Wild, is a forthcoming anthology of micro-fiction from Social Disease Press. All the proceeds of this book will go to Amnesty International. It has contributions from Laird Hunt, Kitty Fitzgerald, Daren King, Matthew David Scott, Denise Mina, Ian Sansom, Martin Ouvry, Nick Stone, Shelley Jackson, Nicholas Royle, J Robert Lennon, Patrick Neate, Nicholas Blincoe, Niall Griffiths, Conrad Williams, Darran Anderson, Willy Vlautin, Kevin Spaide, Sara Gran, Daniel Wallace, Avital Gad-Cykman, Stav Sherez, Jackie Corley, Ben Richards, Patricia Duncker, Susan Elderkin, Stephen McCauley, Gina Ochsner, Dermot Bolger, Kevin MacNeil, Mark Dunn, Clare Dudman, Shiromi Pinto, Nic Kelman, Rick Moody, Sam Lipsyte, Percival Everett, Joel Lane, Erin C Murphy, Christopher Coake, Jonathan Lethem, Samuel Ligon, Nathan Tyree, Lauren Milne Henderson, Femke Colborne, Kevin Sampson, Jeremy Sheldon, Chad Taylor, Kevin Sampsell, Andrew Lewis Conn, Andrew Holmes, Peter Wild, Mitch Cullin, Katherine Dunn, Lila Lundquist, Ben Myers, Lana Citron, Nicola Mostyn, Damon Galgut, Steven Sherrill, Ray Fracalossy, Michel Faber, Jeff VanderMeer, Shelley Silas, James Flint, Stewart Lee, Paul Blaney, Paul Di Filippo, Barry Yourgrau, John Williams, Richard Evans, Charlie Williams, Scott Mebus, Robert Sheppard, Matthew Cheney, Danny King, Jess Walter, Hiag Akmakjian, Rebbecca Ray, Matt Thorne, Kate Pullinger, Jeffrey Ford, Brandon Stosuy, Emily Maguire, Matthew De Abaitua, Christopher Brookmyre, Steve Aylett, Aimee Bender, Bob Thurber, Steve Almond, Nick Johnstone, Simon Crump, Stella Duffy, Arthur Nersesian, Carlton Mellick III, Ewan Morrison, Matt Haig, Cintra Wilson, Rhonda Carrier and Fred Dutton.

Anyway, I was talking about the cover. The art (by Steven Sherill) is exquisite. The whole thing looks beautifully designed. The blurb on the back is elegantly simple. It’s just a list of the contributors and a note that the money all goes to A.I.

Of all the projects I have been part of recently, I think that I am most proud of this. I’ll try to keep the world updated as this continues to take shape.


On a side note: if you look through the list of contributors above you'll notice Mitch Cullin. If you don't know, Mitch Cullin wrote the novel Tideland. I recently saw Terry Gilliam's marvelous film adaptation of Tideland. For anyone who hasn't seen it, do so right away. This may be Gilliam's best film in years. Maybe his best ever (I could just drop the qualification were it not for the sublime Brazil).

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I realize that the above contains a long, dense list of names. Most people will not want to read the entire thing, so I have pulled a few of them out. Here are some of the better known writers in The Flash (along with the title of one of their books)


Steve Almond (My Life in Heavy Metal)
Carlton Mellick III (Satan Burger)
Arthur Nersesian (The Fuck Up)
Steve Aylett (Lint)
Rick Moody (Demonology)
J Robert Lennon (Light of Falling Stars)
Mitch Cullin (Tideland)
Christopher Coake (We’re in trouble)
, Emily Maguire (Taming the Beast)
Kate Pullinger (Weird Sister)
Sam Lipsyte (Homeland)
Nathan Tyree (Mr Overby is Falling)

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Nathan Tyree: More Sentences

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I've got a new piece up at Six Sentences
you can see it here: http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/2007/03/spade.html

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