FLAPPERHOUSE - Year One

FLAPPERHOUSE #1-4

by Joseph P. O'Brien (Editor), Ed Ahern, Daniel Ari

The first four issues of FLAPPERHOUSE, a zine of surreal, shadowy, sensual, satirical lit.

360 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2015

Reviews

[Joe O'Brien]

Since I edited this most flappy anthology I won't give it a star rating, but obviously I think all these stories & poems & short essays are pretty rad if I picked them to go in here.

[Kinsey_m · Rating 4 out of 5]

Update: I am reading this collection from time to time, so it may take a few months to finish. I am almost one third in, and I'll say there are definitely some interesting stories here (the Better Cowboy being one of them). It is all quite experimental, which is a good thing but risky too.

I am not into poetry, so I'm only rating based on the short stories. So far I have read four of them: -- One good story about aspiring surrealist artists in Ameica featuring Gala (Dali's wife) 3.5 stars
- A superb sci fi short about generation ships as an obsolete technology once it becomes possible to fold space, and what happened to those descendants of the pioners that left Earth (a clue: nothing good) 4.5 stars
- A good story about stage managers in theatre, although I was let down by the ending. 3 stars
- A meh story about a little child. I didn't see the point of it to be honest. It was flash fiction, but still I'd expect a whole story, not just glimpses 2 stars