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July 24th - July 24th
24 HOUR LITERARY MARATHON!!!!!!!!
Joseph Mattson, James Greer, Jillian Lauren, Jose Rivera, Mark Sarvas, Brad Listi and MORE will be participating in a 24 HOUR LITERARY MARATHON to benefit The Young Storytellers Foundation
9am Saturday - 9am Sunday
Mattson will be reading at 2:20 AM!
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New: Empty the Sun
by Joseph Mattson
with music by Six Organs of Admittance
with music by Six Organs of Admittance
-Chapter One-
"Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles. I'd had a dream the night before, the dream: God told me to shove a sawed-off slug-barrel shotgun into my mouth and pull the trigger - Why not? he said- for the world was going to end in a week, on July 4th. I'd gone to tell Hal, my neighbor, about it- he ha d a critical obsession with both guns and the Lord-when I found him slunk into his favorite chair like wet clothing stripped after a heavy rain, already stinking of mold and turning blue. He had a pen clutched in his right hand and a piece of paper lying at his feet with the salutation "Dear Magg," shakily scrawled across the top."
"Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles. I'd had a dream the night before, the dream: God told me to shove a sawed-off slug-barrel shotgun into my mouth and pull the trigger - Why not? he said- for the world was going to end in a week, on July 4th. I'd gone to tell Hal, my neighbor, about it- he ha d a critical obsession with both guns and the Lord-when I found him slunk into his favorite chair like wet clothing stripped after a heavy rain, already stinking of mold and turning blue. He had a pen clutched in his right hand and a piece of paper lying at his feet with the salutation "Dear Magg," shakily scrawled across the top."