Because I felt like doing this again.

Children’s stories this time, 100-1000 words, poetry also accepted. Think Ogden Nash, Charles Addams, Lemony Snicket.

Oh, and they must contain at least one bee.

Due by December 31, 2006.

Comment below or email me at holderfield/gmail/com

Unlike the Anthology, this one will be in B&W, so it will be cheaper. I will send a PDF version to everyone accepted, as well as making them eligible for heavily discounted print versions and limited edition Bee Shirts.

For your reading pleasure, we've added some fresh fiction to our site from yours truly:

There's a new story available from David "Starchy" Grant. Click on this link to read "Orient Express" and experience the train ride/wreck of human emotions running without an engineer in the cab.

I suggest you enjoy it; refunds will not be offered.

http://themisfitlibrary.com/

Rumor has it that some of you thought The Misfit Library was just a flash in the pan, a one-hit wonder with a Spring single in thirteen part harmony. Sure, you thought, we'd created a new kind of writers' collective, a new kind of anthology, proved that lit-punk DIY was alive and well and bursting through the walls of the zine ghetto, and put on a launch party that people will be talking about for months to come at the very least. Well, you thought, if that's all, is it really enough?

Hell, no. It wasn't even close to enough. Get this:

The Fall line of Misfittery is here. Now. We are very pleased to announce the second volume of the Misfit Library Journal, featuring sucker-punching stories about death, sex, death and sex, and just a touch of time travel. Our poets have been seduced by the long word and have concocted vibrant prose, while our prose stylists have stepped even further off the hand-beaten paths to find new species of syntax and verbage to slip into your tea when you're not looking. Stop looking.

Sporting heavyweight cover photography by our very own Rachelle Cornell Nashner, Volume Two is here to instruct you on how to survive winter. Make sure you send one to a friend, an enemy, and a spiritual leader or two.

Get it here for $13, including shipping to the continental U.S.: http://themisfitlibrary.com/

Here's what you'll get:

Christine Hamm — "How to Fuck Me"
Rachelle Cornell Nashner — "In Residence"
Mark Teppo — "When Maps Get Old, Towns Fade"
John Carnahan — "Mettis"
Sarah Lynch-Walker — "Temper"
Roba Callahan — "Orders, part 2"
K. D. Bryan — "Adds Up"
Jody Franklin — "Come Blasted Bitches"
Rachelle Cornell Nashner — "Solidus"
David "Starchy" Grant — "Matching Bruises"
Leonore Wilson — "Toll"
Rachelle Cornell Nashner — "Unmeasured"
Andrés Eduardo Caicedo — "Madison, N.D."
K. D. Bryan — "Lost Time"
Rachelle Cornell Nashner — "Built To Last"
Sam Hurwitt — "Last Sun"
Meghan Sweeney — "Watching Orion"
Rachelle Cornell Nashner — "The Secret Garden"

Outside the States? Don't use PayPal? Volume Two will be available through amazon.com and a number of three-dimensional, independent booksellers shortly. In the meantime, feel free to drop us a line at info@themisfitlibrary.com, and we'll work it out.

NOTE TO DISCRIMINATING READERS: When possible, we recommend reading this issue in brothels, empty subway stations, desiccated farmhouses, and the lobbies of major corporations. We do not recommend reading this issue in hospitals, Vietnamese groceries, Russian tea houses, or Irish arboretums. Do not keep any volume of the Misfit Library on a shelf next to you children's books. We cannot be held liable for the likely corruption of either your children or their books.

--David "Starchy" Grant
Editor in Chief
The Misfit Library

The Misfit Library vol. One Launch Party, San Francisco, 8/26/05

Thanks again to everyone who came out last night to support us, and to put up with the unexpectedly electricity-free venue. Despite (and partly because of) all the little problems stemming from that, I'd like to think it was a fantastic success, and I hope it won't be the last such event we hold.

Current Music: Naked City - Verlaine Part Two -La Bleue-

It's official: tonight's launch party is going to be a beautiful, goddam unforgettable, and entirely outrageous lit-punk debacle. We've got some surprises in store that you will not believe. I don't even believe 'em.

That's 7 p.m., 672 South Van Ness at 18th. You'll want to be there. We'll make sure of it.

Now with 25% more readers, and 100% more jody!

On Friday the 26th, please join us at Start Soma in celebrating the release of The Misfit Library: Volume One, the first in a semi-annual series of literary anthologies from the writers' collective of the same name. We've got five readers and two musical acts lined up for you. Best of all, there's no cover, the drinks are cheap, and we'll be selling the books at a discount. Just for you. You're special. Assuming you show up, that is.

Friday, August 26th, 7pm
Start Soma
672 South Van Ness at 18th


About The Misfit Library:

The existence of the Misfit Library is determined by wanton desire, the need for strong literature and the magical promise of a good phrase. The Misfit Library will not be trapped by genre boundaries and exists as a nexus for all things fantastic, droll, poignant and tragic. The Library exists both in virtual space at themisfitlibrary.com, and in your brick-and-mortar book shop. There is exclusive content available in either format.


About The Music:

Hazy Loper features founder and instrument maker Patrick Kadyk on banjo and newcomer Devon Angus on guitar and musical saw. Both members share the singing and songwriting. The result is a dark, sad trail of lonely melodies that move in a stormy wind and linger like a whisper dangling in the turning leaves of a twisted tree.

Mark Parsons, a unique and memorable singer/songwriter, weaves songs that will leave you wondering where you are, but in no rush to figure it out.


About The Readers:

John Carnahan teaches in California and Wales and writes about comic books, fantasy games, and pot. And he’s outside your door right now! He’s there whenever a clock stops or a glass breaks, eager to help.

jody franklin lives in Vancouver, Canada, where he collects altered
egos, causes trouble, pranks the populace, and toils without reward as
both a means and an end. He is widely considered to be one of
Lotusland's foremost false idols. Please, just call him jody.


David “Starchy” Grant, the Library's alleged "Editor-in-Chief," recently suffered the compliment of being heralded a “renaissance idiot” by a contemporary. The founder of the Pre-Futurist school, he currently resides in San Francisco, where he collects alter-egos, causes trouble, confuses the populace, and toils without reward as both a means and an end. Please, just call him Starchy.


Sam Hurwitt has newspaper ink in his blood and extraordinary powers under the U.S. Constitution. He is light and airy with delicate fruit flavors and goes well with pasta and veal.

Meghan Sweeney has a fleeting wit and mediocre intelligence, and has been accused more than once of smelling like hot dog water. She is a full-time prose ninja and part-time robot in San Francisco. Occasionally, she attends Creative Writing classes at SFSU where she is getting her Masters Degree. She has unpaid work in Laundry Pen and Branches Quarterly’s Best of 2003, and her story “Concrete” was nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize.



For more information:

www.themisfitlibrary.com
www.startsoma.com

Regards,
David "Starchy" Grant

In order to tide you over while you wait for our San Francisco launch party later this month, not to mention the release of our second volume in September, we've posted a new release to the online exclusives section of the Library: The Woods by K.D. Bryan. Head on over and check it out. You might want to bring a flashlight, though. If you really want me to hold your hand for it, that's okay too. Just saying.

On Friday the 26th, please join us at Start Soma in celebrating the release of The Misfit Library: Volume One, the first in a semi-annual series of literary anthologies from the writers' collective of the same name. We've got four readers and two musical acts lined up for you. Best of all, there's no cover, the drinks are cheap, we'll be selling the books at a discount. Just for you. You're special. Assuming you show up, that is.

Friday, August 26th, 7pm
Start Soma
672 South Van Ness at 18th


About The Misfit Library:

The existence of the Misfit Library is determined by wanton desire, the need for strong literature and the magical promise of a good phrase. The Misfit Library will not be trapped by genre boundaries and exists as a nexus for all things fantastic, droll, poignant and tragic. The Library exists both in virtual space at themisfitlibrary.com, and in your brick-and-mortar book shop. There is exclusive content available in either format.


About The Music:

Hazy Loper features founder and instrument maker Patrick Kadyk on banjo and newcomer Devon Angus on guitar and musical saw. Both members share the singing and songwriting. The result is a dark, sad trail of lonely melodies that move in a stormy wind and linger like a whisper dangling in the turning leaves of a twisted tree.

Mark Parsons, a unique and memorable singer/songwriter, weaves songs that will leave you wondering where you are, but in no rush to figure it out.


About The Readers:

John Carnahan teaches in California and Wales and writes about comic books, fantasy games, and pot. And he’s outside your door right now! He’s there whenever a clock stops or a glass breaks, eager to help.


David “Starchy” Grant, the Library's alleged "Editor-in-Chief," recently suffered the compliment of being heralded a “renaissance idiot” by a contemporary. The founder of the Pre-Futurist school, he currently resides in San Francisco, where he collects alter-egos, causes trouble, confuses the populace, and toils without reward as both a means and an end. Please, just call him Starchy.

Sam Hurwitt has newspaper ink in his blood and extraordinary powers under the U.S. Constitution. He is light and airy with delicate fruit flavors and goes well with pasta and veal.

Meghan Sweeney has a fleeting wit and mediocre intelligence, and has been accused more than once of smelling like hot dog water. She is a full-time prose ninja and part-time robot in San Francisco. Occasionally, she attends Creative Writing classes at SFSU where she is getting her Masters Degree. She has unpaid work in Laundry Pen and Branches Quarterly’s Best of 2003, and her story “Concrete” was nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize.



For more information:

www.themisfitlibrary.com
www.startsoma.com

Regards,
David "Starchy" Grant

Projected release date: September 13, 2005. Cover design and photo by the intolerably talented raygunn_revival.