Piker Press Anniversary Issue

Each year Piker Press puts out an anniversary issue, in which they take a trip back down memory lane, finding choice morsels from the the past. It’s a good chance to acquaint yourself with the many contributors over there. In the words of Senior Editor Alexandra Queen: “We traditionally run not neccessarily the best, but some of the most memorable articles, stories and comics from the past four years. Or sometimes we run the ones we haven’t thought about for a while. It’s less like the Oscars than like flipping through a family photo album.” I have been enjoying reading stories by some of the folks from before my time.

I was curious to see which of my pieces they might choose to run, if any. Last year they put Tin Can in the anniversary issue, which was a bit of a surprise but not an unpleasant one. It made me go back and look over the story and I discovered that I liked it more than I thought I did. I’ve even fixed it up a bit and submitted to another magazine that doesn’t mind doing reprints.

This time around I could think of a few articles that I thought would be anniversary-worthy, from the bittersweet celebration of life in Earthchuckle to the spooky Serpent to the downright silly Hell-Cricket. Well, I do have a piece in there this week, and once again the choice was a surprise. They are re-running Storm of the Century, the epic story of one man’s drive to salvation, and how he saved a quarter-tank of gas on the way.

OK, maybe ‘epic’ isn’t the right word. But it is fun, and I enjoyed reading it again. It was an experiment of sorts, trying a different narrative style and intentionally under-edited.

Makes me want to go write a short story…

6 thoughts on “Piker Press Anniversary Issue

  1. just for fun,

    Quote:

    I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. — Fred Allen

  2. How pleasant to go “off the grid” (as John Connor would say) for a week, three days later still come stumbling back into the blog, only to find my icon still prominently displayed in the MOH corner. I had considered appointing a vice-MOH to run things around here in my absence, but then realized I had everything running in such a fine fashion that the plates would keep spinning on their dowels until my return.

    For those of you interested in the personal struggles of Fifth Graders against geography, here’s what we’ve been up to.

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