New Byloos Fiction Published

Pop Serial Cover Image

Recently, a new down-loadable magazine called Pop Serial was born. In print form, it is a limited-edition art/literature print magazine edited by Stephen Tully Dierks. You can Email the editor here: stephen.dierks@gmail.com. More importantly, if you visit the Pop Serial website here, you can access a free download of the magazine, featuring my story, “Loved in Spite of Great Fault.”

The magazine is jam packed with buttery, crispy-bottomed goodness, including text and or visual material from the likes of: Tao Lin, Carlos Kotkin, Sarah Meadows, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Holly Kass, Zachary German and a host of other really interesting folk from all over the country.

Here is a little bit of the intro to the piece that I wrote, Loved in Spite of Great Fault,” which is a story about a recovering addict whose life has fallen apart. He struggles for control and for understanding in a universe that has proven itself to be, over and over again, replete with chaos and fraught with confusion. And then, he adopts a kitty cat.

Excerpt From Byloos Fiction: “Loved in Spite of Great Fault”

“I’m bottle-feeding it again right now, just in case it’s not obvious what I’m doing. This is how it gets fed, which is a bit technical, and certainly laborious. I sort of hold its head in my hand, which really requires more like two hands even though I have to use the other hand to hold the little bottle, so I hold the enormous head in my one hand, usually my left, and try to just… tilt… it up at enough of an angle so that the milk and formula mixture actually has a chance to go down her little throat. It’s pathetic.

So generally they’re cute; this was why I got the kitten in the first place. That and of course the fact that living alone again was – well, loneliness was difficult, but that’s what – that’s another story, as they say. The kitten adoption was a couple of months ago. And she was sleeping. I mean, a lot. When I first went to look at her over at the shelter, they said she was different. I figured, she was colored differently. What could they have meant by that, after all. How different can one kitten be from another? This one has a little colored stain on its face, that one’s orange. Different. I get it. But she was asleep the whole time. Maybe that’s why I never noticed.”

To read the rest, please go and download the magazine, or contact Stephen to find out where and when you can find the limited edition print version. Support great independent publishing efforts!

Cover art for Pop Serial by Julia Sonmi Heglund