Author: Phil Slattery

Publisher, Rural Fiction Magazine; publisher, The Chamber Magazine; founder, the Farmington Writers Circle. I have written short stories and poetry for many years. In my careers as a Naval officer and in the federal government, I have written thousands of documents of many types. I am currently working on a second edition for my poetry collection and a few novels.

यादें — Reena Saxena

Originally posted on Playing with words: हर शाम लेकर बैठता हूँ कागज़ का एक टुकड़ा मिटाना चाहता हूँ यादें पर नज़र आते हैं साये में कितने भूले बिसरे चेहरे छूना चाहता हूँ फिर से एक बार उन चेहरों को तराशता हूँ उनको अपनी कूंची की नाज़ुक लकीरों से जाग उठती हैं फिर यादें कब समझेगा…

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Classic Krakauer #BookReview #ClassicKrakauer #NetGalley — Poems for Warriors

“Classic Krakauer” by Jon Krakauer is a series of essays and long form articles he wrote for magazines like Outside, Smithsonian, and other publications some as late as the 1980s, years before classics such as “Into the Wild” and “Under the Banner of Heaven.” Krakauer writes stories that are both intriguing and thrilling at the […]

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If You Like The Art of Blogging You Must Read This Post — The Art of Blogging

I feel that The Art of Blogging is growing to become not only a community, but also the kind of online resource that bloggers can turn to in their hour of need. This makes me work twice as hard to deliver better content to you. The kind of stuff that genuinely helps you reach more […]

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[251] An Old Night — Smoke words every day.

Confessing numbness Caressing depression I’ve forgot to look in the right places Forgotten dreams of a mighty dynasty I live in abeyance Like a lonely sun No visible illness so you deny my right to feel I deny my right to bleed I lie down in hopes I’ll rise again A sharp thought flows through […]

via [251] An Old Night — Smoke words every day.

Update: Major Changes to the Website

After some deliberation, I have decided to make a couple of major changes to this website.

  1.  I will be taking submissions of literary fiction of all genres and announcements for publication on this website.  Please see my submissions and announcements page for more details and guidelines. There will be no pay in the foreseeable future. You will have, however, all the glory that comes with being published on this website. They will probably be published on Friday nights.
  2. I am changing the name of the website to Slattery’s Magazine, so that the publication credit will look good on the resume of anyone published here.
  3. I will be focusing less on horror on this website and will be leaning more toward mainstream and popular fiction.  That does not mean that I will not publish horror.  I love good horror. I will just be throwing other genres into the mix.
  4. I have removed the pages focused on horror and migrated them to The Chamber Magazine, which is also accepting submissions.  The guidelines are close to the same as these, but focused more on horror and on flash fiction.
  5. I am restarting the Saturday Night Special feature that I ran for 43 installments a few years ago.  It will run on Saturday nights, of course, at 6:00 p.m. eastern standard time (11:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time–i.e. in London, England).  In accordance with the website changes, I will incorporate more mainstream literature into it, though I will initially re-run a lot of the original horror stories until I can find some good mainstream stories. Originally, I ran stories from prior to 1923, the year of institution of copyright laws in the US, in order to avoid copyright problems. I will probably continue to do so. I will focus on what are generally considered to be classic short stories, e.g. by Poe, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, and others.

Stand by for more updates as they occur.  Check back frequently.

Colson Whitehead is the first novelist to grace the cover of TIME since 2010

Colson Whitehead is the first novelist to grace the cover of TIME since 2010

Colson Whitehead is the first novelist to grace the cover of TIME since 2010


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A Conversation with Sana Munir, author of ‘Unfettered Wings’

A Conversation with Sana Munir, author of ‘Unfettered Wings’

http://cafedissensusblog.com/2019/06/27/a-conversation-with-sana-munir-author-of-unfettered-wings/
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[Rezension] (Un)geliebtes Landleben: „Klassenkampf“ und „Platzwechsel“ von André Herrmann

[Rezension] (Un)geliebtes Landleben: „Klassenkampf“ und „Platzwechsel“ von André Herrmann

[Rezension] (Un)geliebtes Landleben: „Klassenkampf“ und „Platzwechsel“ von André Herrmann


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Unusually Standing Crow Gets Internet Hilariously Trying To Explain It, But A Bird Expert Tells It As It Is

Unusually Standing Crow Gets Internet Hilariously Trying To Explain It, But A Bird Expert Tells It As It Is

https://amanews.biz/unusually-standing-crow-gets-internet-hilariously-trying-to-explain-it-but-a-bird-expert-tells-it-as-it-is/
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