GUD Vault
Issue 1 :: Autumn 2007
Issue 1 comes to life with Darby Larson's "Electroencephalography" where an experiment in robot-building goes terribly awry. And if you've ever woken up with an unexpected physical deformity—say, an arrow in your heart—you'll truly enjoy the next story.
There's also a smattering of flash fiction and psychedelia; a straight-out story where things aren't what they seem, poetry that takes you from the perverse to the sublime, some magic realism, science fiction, and a few letters to another species thrown in for good measure. We haven't forgotten those of you with a literary bent.
In addition, the artwork in this issue is particularly strong, with oil paintings, watercolors, photography, and photo illustrations complementing the words with which they are paired.
Table of contents
| stories | poetry | reports | art |
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Electroencephalography Arrow Drive Thru Hello Goodbye Aliens Not In The Yellow Pages Natural History Unzipped Max Velocity The Illiterate Sky In the Dark Fear not Heaven's Fire Experiment: Love Anything Women of the Doll The Gods of Houston Item 27 Jimmy's Luck |
The Intrigue of Being Watched really nice on drugs your personal ground zero (to franz wright) moving boxes Hunting Season The Banker Calls for Three Martinis and a Pipe Sisyphus of the Staircase A Doorbell In Defense Of The Boll-Weevil Catholic Girls |
Mad Dogs |
An Bradán Feasa (The Salmon of Knowledge) Charging The Inspiration The Prophet -- eyes detail Spring the trial Growth Steps To Darkened Ends The Prophet -- two figures torso twenty-one |
Contributors:
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Other works by or including our contributors this issue:
What's your creativity?! (oh, and did we mention the contest's not over yet!)
"Stone Masters: A Vampire Reckoning" is a vampire novel told from two perspectives, in the form of diary entries. Both of the main characters, Orpheus and Jadeon, start us off with an entry from June 2006 as the set up to tell the story of how they became what they are, several hundred years earlier.