The world of old time radio is a fantasy land where you take the voices and make an entire world. Nothing is better.This collects six forgotten masterpieces. And yes. They are real. Why would you even think to say that we made this shit up? We would never write something ourselves and call it masterpieces. We are too humble for that.Six masterpieces. Well, you can decide.There is the episode of Doctor Jeckyll's Two Face Saloon where a man comes in to play Hangman wi...

The universe is a woolly place.The universe is made of felt.The Big Bang was a soft though consistent annoyance.Dogs chase after runaway planets.When planets collide, it is okay because everything is felt.Neptunians are always cold and really just want to wear something cozy.And that's the thing. We want to be cozy.This issue of The Ekphrasis Take-Out is a cohesive collection of felt and the universe.This zine will be made of ...

The Wolf Man, Larry, has gone into a giant liquor store and is wandering about, even though he has been sober. Werewolves have a hard time staying sober and being in a liquor store is a bad look.Mr. Hyde (of the famous Duo) goes in to help Larry out. They are both sober. Mr. Hyde isn't really a sponsor, but he can be persuasive.They wander around the immense liquor store. They talk. They quarrel. A young employee of the store joins them. She probably should not be taken at ...

David wrote two similar memoirs in the form of lists. One was all the monsters he loved before he was 13. The second memoir was all the heroes he loved before he became a teen.This collects both 100 Monsters and 100 Heroes. What makes a hero you love? What makes a monster you love? Can they be the same character?These two little books were meant to be together.And now they are

A few weeks ago, I received a zine by the prolific self-publisher, Marc Fischer, called the Self Initiated Hotel Artist Residency. It talked about using a cheap hotel room for several days as a kind of studio. This is not a new idea, but it was nice to see that notion explored so well by a talented writer.He asked for those of us who have used a hotel as an artists' retreat to write him and send him a line. And that is what this is.This open letter addressed to Marc sketche...

Who did you idolize as a kid? Who did you see as a hero?David Macpherson has asked that question to himself and assembled 100 heroes of his from before he was 13. When you are a kid, you are the most open to having a hero.Each hero gets a little essay describing why they mattered. Some of these are funny and absurd. Some are moving. There are a good deal of comic book and television heroes, but some of these were real. All too real.What David Macpherson has given yo...

Where is Fancy Bread?There was a seminar on how to write the best book copy and one of the main rules is to get the potential reader's attention by a quick and pertinent question. Ask a question. Grab them. Drag them along to the rest of the ad copy.And this question is the best one yet. Where is Fancy Bread? Not only is it the title of the book, it is everything in the book. Every chapter is another time where Fancy Bread is visiting some location. He is also dressed to th...

Can you learn how to be a writer from reading someone's abandoned work?Maybe.David Macpherson writes every day and has published 180 ebook titles. Some of them are quite good. Some do not reach the end.There are a lot of reasons why pieces are not completed. This book has a half dozen unfinished works with an introduction that attempts to explain why it didn't work out.Some of the work is fun. Some of it will help you realize that mistakes happen. This book ...

When you finish writing a book project, you have to ask the important question, "Did I learn anything from this?" It's not to fix the book you just finished. It is asked to get ready for the next book and the book after that.David Macpherson writes very short books. His books are 50 to 80 pages. That gives him a lot of chances to think about what he could learn. This book includes the book projects from 2024. There are nearly 25 small books that he wrote.What did he learn? ...

Jack and Janice have rules for the third in their threesome. They try to go over everything that might not go well or that didn't go perfect in the past.Before the "Sexy Time" begins, the third has to read and initial every rule, all 113 of them. It might take some time, but man is it worth it.Here are the rules.These are the things you should know to have a great night.Take your time before going to the next rule. You might learn something about yourself wi...

Time is not a river. Time is the ticking of the clock. Time is not a loop where people run around and repeat the same day over and over.No.Time is a highway.It is a long well paved highway that goes from the start of creation on until the end of everything. Don't be alarmed. There are offramps along the way. You can drive the Time Highway and get off at your favorite eras. You just need to be able to be on the Highway.Like any major thorough fare, there are ...

You know the story. Three pigs build three houses. One is of straw. One is of sticks. One is of bricks. A wolf comes around and tests the strength of the houses against his breath. He fails against the house of bricks.That's the motif.What can we do with variations of that theme? We present 27 little plays that take this motif and run with it.We look at aspects of the plot. We put different people in the stories like Mr. Punch and Baba Yaga. We blend all the folk ta...