I live in rural Indiana with my husband and two sons. I work as a bookkeeper for a small Carnegie library.
I never shared my work with anyone except a few friends. They urged me to write and show instead of write and hide. Thanks to those friends, I now have the courage to show others what has been inside of me for so long.
During the submitting process, I discovered work by fantastic writers I might never have had the pleasure of viewing, but places where I could see their work were very few.
I decided to create a place where I would enjoy visiting everyday to see quality work by writers who have remained hidden over the years.
I am co-editor of Shoots and Vines Zine. We have a great team of folks who love to read and want to promote underground writers who haven't made it to the mainstream (and even if they do we will still love them).
I hope you enjoy our zine. We want to post new work everyday but that depends on how often you feed us the good stuff.
Publications:
The Guild of Outsider Writers - Mirrors
Lit Up Magazine - Olive Water
Gloom Cupboard #60 - No Fear
Pleasure on Six Sentences
Read more from Crystal:
Uncovering Crystal
Did I mention rollerderby gals get special treatment? ;)
Posts
4 comments:
1.
Only 2 positions for a light switch,
UP or DOWN:
the ON position is pointing skyward,
toward ExtremeSupersonicSeventh-Heaven,
which is what America SHOULD be doing,
puh-ray-zin GodNdis Finite Existence...
while the OFF position
is pointing toward our demise,
to the whorizontal.
Toward the Abyss o'Misery,
where you [pl] shall feeel
the Darkness is Living N palpable.
So only 2 eternities, earthling...
and 1 of em aint too cool.
Many analogies we might surmise
of that proposition... yet,
only 1 belief in the King of Hearts
who gives U.S. His Magnificent Light.
If that's too difficult 4u2c,
here's what I suggest:
I suggest you getta pair of GodSpex
from the Divine Physician, mortal.
God bless your indelible soul.
Yes, earthling, I was an NDE:
DO - NOT - TAKE - the - CHIP!!!
(hand OR forhead)
If you do,
cuzza your job or friends or family,
say hello to being toast, baby.
Make Your Choice -SAW
JohnLeary.com
1.
Only 2 positions for a light switch,
UP or DOWN:
the ON position is pointing skyward,
toward ExtremeSupersonicSeventh-Heaven,
which is what America SHOULD be doing,
puh-ray-zin GodNdis Finite Existence...
while the OFF position
is pointing toward our demise,
to the whorizontal.
Toward the Abyss o'Misery,
where you [pl] shall feeel
the Darkness is Living N palpable.
So only 2 eternities, earthling...
and 1 of em aint too cool.
Many analogies we might surmise
of that proposition... yet,
only 1 belief in the King of Hearts
who gives U.S. His Magnificent Light.
If that's too difficult 4u2c,
here's what I suggest:
I suggest you getta pair of GodSpex
from the Divine Physician, mortal.
God bless your indelible soul.
Yes, earthling, I was an NDE:
DO - NOT - TAKE - the - CHIP!!!
(hand OR forhead)
If you do,
cuzza your job or friends or family,
say hello to being toast, baby.
Make Your Choice -SAW
JohnLeary.com
2.
Greetings, earthling! Need summore new-fangled-thots N ideers? Look no firdr, brudda. Can't stay long. Done gotta git, Paw... yet, if Im a sower, we plant the Seed; if Im an artist, we RITE the Word:
Would U please help a plethora of King Size, wildchild, rawkuss poetry/wordz which are lookin 4 a home in thy novelty?? Thx. Whew. They're pretty insane. They're bereft of reason. Oi! Blimey! They're bloody PINK spiders!!
Gotta gobba lotta shrewd, surreal, supersonic, sardonic satires, sassy N savvy elixers N electronic elegance (...and palpable nuance) on our YOUTHwitheTRUTH blogs. Wannum? Have'm. N'joym. Gettm outta my hair!!!
How mucha wanna betcha our sugar-high-mojo, pleasure-beyond-measure, fuse-blowin-exploits R a copious madhouse of one lavish bookay D.O.A.? Our proFUSE NRGod who leads U.S. to explosive fairy-tales in the 'one-stop-shop' symphony Upstairs? God's the BigDude, the Owner of ElysianFields, the Grand Prize, the Austere Overdrive, NoPurchaseNecessary: our bombastic tenaCITY on a Hill which'll plant the Seeds 4u2 grow-up to new N greater heights!! Mama mia! Thatsa good pasta!!
CAUTION: our 22ish, avant-guard, accurately-atrocious, offa-the-reservation-like-Jimmy-Hoffa, metal breadcrumms R sooo out-of-order, toots, they're an intimate wealth of bottomless sophistication. And dats da lethal fak, Jak. Go ahead. Sue me. Yawn. But, yet, here's the perennial KOO D'TAH: who else has actually SEEN the Great Beyond in spirit & lived to tella youse bout the bionic, bloated, brevity-like-earth we're living on?? Yes, earthling, I had an NDE, almost salivating4salvation. So gain altitude, never attitude: death has no intrinsick favorites.
If Mr. abSUREditty's an ultra-great-reward, and not everyone enters, Q: why is it an excruciating deluge of epic-.357-caliber where the quality's a limitless bulldozer plowin, pushin-your-power-cord with eternal goodies? A: the Prize-A+-TheEnd just gives U.S. moe-curley-graphix 2 VitSee: an explosion-of-extravagance which few R asking 4 anymore! Grrr. They're too concerned withe grotesque sanity of ambivilant piss-ants which swiftly crawl like lemmings to their scorecard destruction. C'est la guerre.
THANK GAWWWD!!! the Don has the ebullient BAWLS!!! to do the Manifest Destiny!!! To lead U.S. forward to the White House Upstairs with his SQUARES!!!
So, break-free, earthling; be like a contraversial outgrowth of incredibly-intoxicating-effusiveness in your zeitgeist to give the ultimate, stunning, backknuckle potency: Wiseabove. Wanna join this useFULL idiot Upstairs 4 the most zany, kooky, X-acto-knife antidotes? Extremely exquisite, explicit endorphins in abundance? Puh-lenty of pulverizingly-tantalizing psychopathic psychosomatics with eXtras? i2i-kick-velocity's-ass-ultra-maximum-rocket-fuel-party-hardy at my pad ya ever encountered without d'New Joisey accent 4 an eternal slew of precarious, magnanimous & primeval absurdities indelibly etched in the granite corridors of eternity with a total-barrage-of-melt-in-thy-mouth 'depth-of-undenial'???
Make Your Choice -SAW
...cuzz nobody gitts outta here alive, earthling.
1.
Only 2 positions for a light switch,
UP or DOWN:
the ON position is pointing skyward,
toward ExtremeSupersonicSeventh-Heaven,
which is what America SHOULD be doing,
puh-ray-zin GodNdis Finite Existence...
while the OFF position
is pointing toward our demise,
to the whorizontal.
Toward the Abyss o'Misery,
where you [pl] shall feeel
the Darkness is Living N palpable.
So only 2 eternities, earthling...
and 1 of em aint too cool.
Many analogies we might surmise
of that proposition... yet,
only 1 belief in the King of Hearts
who gives U.S. His Magnificent Light.
If that's too difficult 4u2c,
here's what I suggest:
I suggest you getta pair of GodSpex
from the Divine Physician, mortal.
God bless your indelible soul.
Yes, earthling, I was an NDE:
DO - NOT - TAKE - the - CHIP!!!
(hand OR forhead)
If you do,
cuzza your job or friends or family,
say hello to being toast, baby.
Make Your Choice -SAW
JohnLeary.com
Post a Comment