Welcome to the second issue of KYSO Flash! Thanks so much for taking time
to visit us. And a thousand thanks to everyone—writers, readers, and
supporters—for your overwhelmingly positive responses to our first issue.
We’re thrilled to report that this one is just as awesome, offering as it
does numerous new and electrifying works to knock your socks off. Although we’ve
published too many fine pieces to list here, I would like to mention just a
few we’re especially excited about:
⚡ Three new poems (plus several republished
gems of various genres) by our
Featured Artist, Alexis Rhone Fancher, a Los Angeles-based writer and photographer
whose first collection of poetry is both erotic and well-written,both
discomfiting and liberating, with a gritty candor that Bukowski might have
admired.
⚡ Five astonishing new pieces by Arlene Ang,
author of four poetry collections. If Ang’s work is new to you, don’t
let her demure appearance in photographs fool you—to my mind, she’s
a writer of fierce imagination and surprising, gut-wrenching imagery. (See also
my review of
her latest book, Banned for Life.)
⚡ Plus, we are pleased and honored to be
first to publish works by two fine writers who recently decided to try their
hand at flash “faction” (aka nonfiction): novelist Bill Mesce, Jr.
with his evocative CNF piece,
Tides and poet
C. C. Russell with his lyrical micro-memoir,
Another Summer at the
End of the World.
⚡ As a line and production editor who’s
gaga over mechanical details, I am downright delighted to include
Layout in Haibun,
a new, nuts-and-bolts craft essay by editor and master haibunist David Cobb.
I’m also happy to republish in this issue words of wisdom on craft from
Grant Faulkner, Bryan Furuness, and Thomas E. Kennedy.
Of course, to borrow a malaphor: These examples barely scratch the
tips of the literary and visual-arts icebergs that await your exploration!
Micro-fictions, graphic flash, prose poems, paintings, sculptures, haibun, flash
plays—the list of wonderful works goes on and on. In fact, there are so many
that our job of nominating the finest for next year’s Best of the Net
Anthology, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize will be difficult
indeed. ☺
As always, many thanks for dropping by, and we hope you enjoy what you find
on our menu...
