Title: Issues, Envelopes and Homophobes
Author: FeatherJunkie
Genre: High school romance
URL: www.fictionpress.com…
Other Information/warnings: none
Summary:
A sixteen year old boy has to write to a ‘pen pal’ in his own school as part of a school assignment. This does not amuse him.
Archive for October, 2005
Issues, Envelopes and Homophobes by FeatherJunkie – review
Collection of reviews for Velvet Mafia Issue no.1
URL: velvetmafia.com/archive.php
I’m planning to post reviews of back issues of the ‘Velvet Mafia’ ezine
velvetmafia.com/index2.php
From Issue 1, I enjoyed several stories, or at least, was moved by them.
Masks by Parhelion – review
Title: Masks
Author: Parhelion
Genre: Horror/fantasy
URL: slashgirls.tripod.com…
Other Information/warnings: nothing explicit, except for creepy themes
Summary:
Rusty’s a typical gay owner of a metahuman memorabilia store. His best friend is a superhuman who eats people’s lives. And then…things get even more complicated.
This is part of the second issue of the JACK ezine
slashgirls.tripod.com…
Good grief by Drew Gummerson – review
Title: Good Grief
Author: Drew Gummerson
Genre: Fantasy, sci-fi, horror
URL: velvetmafia.com…
Part of issue 16 of the ‘Velvet Mafia’ ezine:
velvetmafia.com/index2.php
Other Information/warnings: well, in one way, it’s sick as fuck. In another, it’s funny and sad at the same time. Rude words and body parts (*lots* of body parts).
Summary (if relevant):
Everyone grieves in their own way. Some…a little more unusually than others
Heron Feathers Fiction contest entries – review
Title: Heron Feathers Fiction Contest Entry archive
Author(s): Multiple
Genres: Multiple (romance, fantasy, real world, angst – hell, just read the damn things!)
URL: kiriko-moth.com…
Other Information/warnings: all but the last story, Mechanics of Fucking, are pretty tame, but there is some violence, and at least one story is a death story
Summary:
Ten entries were received in the Heron Feathers Fiction Competition.
Stories had to be based on or in someway inspired by the picture, ‘Heron Feathers’ by Kiriko Moth. There was a 10,000 word limit.