Bookcases lie in wait.They are teeming with books. Some of them you have read. Some of them you were given as gifts. Other books were bought with enthusiasm and then ignored. Forgotten.Bookcases tell the story of a the owner of the books. They tell you what his interests are and where he buys his books. What stores does he loiter in?This is a memoir of five years of buying and reading and not reading books. David goes through each of the books in the bookcase and te...

Josh helps run the science fiction club at his college. It's okay. It's fun enough. And then the djinn showed. He doesn't have genie powers as much as he can manipulate time and space whenever he finds it most amusing.The djinn lives in an action figure playset in the back of the club's space. He will force adventures onto Josh, whether Josh likes it or not. Caliban will appear. Another djinn will show up. Red-headed step children of literature will come out of paperbacks and start...

In 2019, I was going to turn fifty and had my midlife crisis by wallowing in the comic books I loved as a kid.I started buying comic books again. Not new comics. Hell no. I was keyed into old comics.The shit I read when I was a kid.When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I spent all my money on comic books. I would go to the local shop on Saturdays and buy a large wedge of books and spend the next week reading them all.I loved all of them, but would they all stand up?

Contents: 45 brief stories. None are deep. None are wise. Some are funny.. Some just thing they are funny. The only thing the stories have in common is that they were inspired by the titles to 45 books by Joyce Carol Oates. The stories are not inspired by the books. They just took her titles and did their own thing. You will like these stories. You will not like these stories. You will read this description and wonder why anyone would waste their time with this book. Or you can buy this bo...

Who do you call a criminal?It can't be Martha and Emily. They help the criminals, but does that make them crooks as well?The Sisters are just trying to make a living. They will bring illicit materials to mob bosses. They will copyedit notes announcing that this is a bank robbery. They will teach others how to distribute counterfeit money. They will also drug and transport people. They will not do terrible things to them, just transport them.Does that make them bad?

What's the best part of a hardboiled detective yarm?Is it the drunk detective rooting around for the solution?Is it the relentless mood of impending doom?Or could it be the confession?The confession is the such a cool part of a hardboiled detective yearn.And this novel has person after person coming into the police station to confess to the same crime.What's wrong here?Not every one who says they killed the rich man could actually kil...

Santo was the greatest luchador that ever danced in the ring.His moves were so good they were like poetry.And that is why we present a book of poetry.Most are inspired by some of his great movies, where he fought vampires, werewolves and robots.These poems are irreverent and sometimes touching.There is a world to explore in the films of a masked wrestler fighting Aztec Mummies. There is a world of poetry in the saga of Santo.. We are brave enough to ...

Who has the time to watch a whole movie?There are so many movies and you don't have the time squeezing in all the cat videos you are constantly scrolling through.How do you get to watch a lot of movies?Why don't you just watch a minute from a bunch of movies?That's a plan, but even that will take time that you don't have, what is to be done?You can let us watch it for you. We have picked Tubi, which has a very large catalog of movies to stream and we...

David Macpherson writes every day. He does not write a lot every day, but small amounts go pretty far.For this year, he kept a written record of what he was writing and how it was going along. He get to see the story ideas that floundered and those that made it to the end. You will read the frustration of projects that are not coming together. You will also read of the summer where everything he worked on was completed and he was happy with all of it.It is a year in the lif...

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 ...

Cyborg 2087 was a 1966 movie with Miichael Rennie.It is not the most well known of science fiction movies.That does not mean it isn't good, just that it isn't recognized.One of the things it is known for is its similarity to the plot of Terminator 2.David has decided to write this short book in 72 hours. He will watch Cyborg 2087 and express what it is about.He will dive into issues of plagariesm and the act of borrowing someone else's ideas....

People weep at the movies. If an old guy goes to a movie by himself, there is a chance he will be crying by the end. No matter what kind of movie it is, he will be crying.David Macpherson is that old guy crying at everything.In this personal essay, he attempts to understand the joy and art of crying at the movies.What movies do you cry at?Should men hide their tears away, because crying at a movie is a such a girl thing to do?Or is it universal?...