The Future Hygienic
Adopting the rhetoric of news media and academia,
we want to report on the imaginary, the made-up, the absurd.
We want fakery, disinformation, lies.
We want mixed-up science, incorrect inventions,
backwards ideas, and implausible theories1.
We’re now accepting prose, poetry, essays, journalism,
spam, illustrations, photographs, collages, maps, and diagrams2
concerning fake animals, diseases, medicines, cures,
inventions and contraptions, artistic movements, authors,
politicians, geography, wars, revolutions, discoveries,
ecological disasters, plagues, revolts, political coupes, communes,
philosophers, ethnic groups, space exploration, and so on.
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1 If you made it up we want it. And if it sounds like you made it up,
but you didn’t, then we’d still like to hear about it.
2 We’re thinking John Hodgeman, Pataphysics, Church of the subGenius,
Rube Goldberg, Ben Marcus, George Saunders, David Ohle, Matthew Derby,
Douglas Adams, Vonnegut Vonnegut Vonnegut, Donald Barthelme,
Jorge Borges, Italo Calvino, Pseudoscience, and Disinformation.
Submit work steadily and excitedly until July 15th 2008.
Submit to: pistolpress@gmail.com
Ideas are brewing, plans are being typed. We’ve got a thousand children with a thousand pencils vigorously working on their cursive. Once they’ve completed the proper testing and meet our standardized criteria, we’ll put them to work on brainstorming some beautifully written project proposals. We like you. We’re excited to see what you do.
If you do something that you really like, and you’d really like us to see it, send us a query letter describing what it is and why. Then we’ll have sarsaparillas.
We’re not currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts, as we have only six eyes and three dollars a day for coffee.
If you want, send as a query letter explaining why your project really excites you, we’d love to chat about it.
Send us stuff: Particularly words.