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Medium Chill: Issue 7
Issue number 7 in the Medium Chill collaborative 'zine series offers fiction, non-fiction, prose, and artwork.
MEDIUM CHILL began as a sophisticated literary journal but morphed into a bangin' underground 'zine full of short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and art from writers and artists from all over the globe. Some of them even have their own books—so if you're not a fan of one, go read another—this is an anthology.
Most likely, you'll notice some minor formatting errors and probably a few slips in grammar and mechanics, but nothing that will impede clarity; so just try to have some kind of orgasmic reading experience pondering the darkly honest works from writers who may be new to you. Writers work very hard, often for little reward or acknowledgment – so before you negatively review, ask yourself if you've done better. If yes – shoot an email and provide the link of your best effort to the MEDIUM CHILL team: we'll let you know if you're correct But if no, you should get on that then--get to steppin' on your best effort instead of offering negative reviews of others' works. The internet is full of snark and pessimism; that's nothing special—but your genuine insight and positive review just might be.
MEDIUM CHILL began as a sophisticated literary journal but morphed into a bangin' underground 'zine full of short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and art from writers and artists from all over the globe. Some of them even have their own books—so if you're not a fan of one, go read another—this is an anthology.
Most likely, you'll notice some minor formatting errors and probably a few slips in grammar and mechanics, but nothing that will impede clarity; so just try to have some kind of orgasmic reading experience pondering the darkly honest works from writers who may be new to you. Writers work very hard, often for little reward or acknowledgment – so before you negatively review, ask yourself if you've done better. If yes – shoot an email and provide the link of your best effort to the MEDIUM CHILL team: we'll let you know if you're correct But if no, you should get on that then--get to steppin' on your best effort instead of offering negative reviews of others' works. The internet is full of snark and pessimism; that's nothing special—but your genuine insight and positive review just might be.
102 pages, Paperback
Published February 23, 2022
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March 29, 2022
After a two-year hiatus, Medium Chill has returned with issue 7, a collection of short fiction, poetry, visual art, etc. more or less organized around the concept of drugs and addiction. I've had a good time contributing my own short fiction to past issues of this publication, so I'm pretty happy it has started up again and excited to have one of my stories featured among the work of many talented writers and artists. My story, "Ghabbour", involves a hashish-fueled trip through the Sahara Desert. I tend to find literature about drugs inauthentically edgy, so I thought it might be fun to write an entirely wholesome drug story. And it was fun. I'm happy with how the story turned out and enjoyed many of the other works in this issue including some short pieces by series creator Rhonda Baughman and a few poems by Robert Beveridge. Issue 7 includes nonfiction pieces of criticism for the first time, but they're esoteric enough that they could almost pass for fictional reference texts in a Borges story. Like past issues, Medium Chill: Issue 7 is fun, provocative and more hit than miss. Glad to have it back.
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