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I wanted it to be zen - Remembering Metazen

I wanted it to be zen – Remembering Metazen

Metazen was an online journal run by Frank Hinton from 2009 til 2014. It published a new piece of writing everyday for that entire run, a pretty incredible feat if you ask me. One great thing about Metazen publishing so much work was that it introduced its readers to a lot of new writers, and a lot of those writers were indeed new. Metazen gave heaps of young writers their first shot, publishing…

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"I've been hiding for so long, I don't know how to unhide!" — I don't think xTx is an identity. xTx is a name, a label, almost a brand. The person behind xTx is a mystery, not the name. You can just shed the name, xTx, and the mystery will remain. " -xtx In fact, judging from my own process, which was much shorter, less painful, accompanied by little publicity of course, when I killed "Finnegan Flawnt" (who'd become a bit of a bore and a pompous arse), I'd say the mystery that you are to yourself as a writer and which may be one of the sources of your power as a writer, will deepen. Paradoxically, when you lose baggage, you gain weight. I say this dispassionately, I don't mind if you continue writing as xTx, it's still interesting, quirky and cryptic, but it sometimes sounds as if you want to leave all that behind. Then you'd be just one of us, but you'd be you. I don't know if that appeals." -finnegan flawnt

2 of the originals on 'anonymity' 

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The Great Purging

One day the sewers in all the cities will cease to work. Then the people will pour into the streets and they will look at each other with wide open eyes, which reflect two questions: «Who is responsible for this cock-up?» And: «What shall we do now?»– Because very soon the people in the cities will wade through their own garbage. The few remaining philosophers will say: we always said this would happen! The athletes and the movie directors will yawn:what do we care! The politicians will attempt to turn the disaster into an opportunity, tweeting images of themselves covered in poop. The Paris fashion industry will create a new perfume line for the rich. The country folks on the other hand will shrug: they’re used to living among feces. They have learnt to extract the promise of fertility from it. The family home will once again become a place where animals and men relieve themselves freely wherever they like. The family will be concerned about survival again and grow stronger. Over time, when nothing changes, everybody will slowly get used to the smell and the new colors of everything covered with clutter. The areas befallen worst by the transformation will experience a linguistic renaissance, while generally tension will ease and catharsis set in, so that soon many will say with conviction: It could have been way worse!

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Marcus Speh lives in Berlin, Germany. His collection of short fiction, “Thank You For Your Sperm” is forthcoming from MadHat Press. He blogs at marcusspeh.com.

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I have no use for dreams...

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The moon-faced fat mayor smiled and his triplicate chin wobbled. His thick rose-colored hand lay on the head of a child, who wasn’t dancing but reading. 'What're you reading,' asked the mayor’s spouse. The girl cast down her eyes and said: 'I'm reading the bible.'

Marcus Speh, "Candy"

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