Longshot Island: Face Forward
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This is Vol. 1 of the Longshot Island magazine publication released in 2016. Stories by Barry GJ Quinn, Stephanie Buosi, M.H. Vesseur, Benjamin Logan Miller, Dhaval P. Nayi, Nick Yates and EN Heim.
What does Face Forward mean? It's a reference to society. It's that condition of looking ahead even when things may not seem right. It's marching in time when the clocks are all broken. Students in the classroom must face forward. Old men stumbling down busy sidewalks must face forward. Soldiers face forward as they head into war.
Everything we see and hear tells us to face forward or be lost! But maybe, just maybe, it's time to stop and look around.
As a publisher, it occurred to me that writing is an attempt at individuality. This magazine presents a collection of truly unique stories. The voices stand out from the crowd. They cry out, look, life is more than the rules we all grew up with. Life's what you make it.
Welcome to Face Forward.
Daniel Scott White
Member of a band of Stray Tablets. Winner of more than fifty film festivals. I was born in the mountains but now live by the sea.
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Longshot Island - Daniel Scott White
Longshot Island
Face Forward
EDITED BY
DANIEL SCOTT WHITE
LONGSHOT PRESS
Copyright
Published by Longshot Press
Longshot Island Vol. 1 Copyright © 2016
by Daniel Scott White
Longshot Island is an imprint
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ISBN 978-0-9981243-1-5
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Compass
Overture
Wax Memories
by Stephanie Buosi
The Feeling Switch
by Barry GJ Quinn
New Grass
by M.H. Vesseur
Halab, Oh Halab
by EN Heim
The Afghan and the Rifleman
by Nick Yates
Wanderland
by Dhaval P. Nayi
Rageaholism
by Benjamin Logan Miller
Your Turn
Acknowledgments
All stories used by permission of the authors.
Overture
What does Face Forward mean? It’s a reference to society. It’s that condition of looking ahead even when things may not seem right. It’s marching in time when the clocks are all broken. Students in the classroom must face forward. Old men stumbling down busy sidewalks must face forward. Soldiers face forward as they head into war.
Everything we see and hear tells us to face forward or be lost! But maybe, just maybe, it’s time to stop and look around.
As a publisher, it occurred to me recently that writing is an attempt at individuality. This magazine presents a collection of truly unique stories. The voices stand out from the crowd. They cry out, look, life is more than the rules we all grew up with. Life’s what you make it.
Welcome to Face Forward.
Daniel Scott White
Editor-in-Chief
Wax Memories
Stephanie Buosi
I remember the director’s face the day we discovered my grandmother’s body had been stolen. Withered, pale, and aged at least five years overnight, his face was a topographic map of lines detailing the stress he was clearly trying to hide.
I assure you, nothing like this has ever happened before,
he said, wiping a pale yellow handkerchief over his brow. He wouldn’t look at us as he spoke. Perhaps he was afraid we would see through his thin veneer. I could have assured him we did, and he could stop trying to please us and act in a way we, a grieving family, could understand: panic. Most of us had panicked regardless of his sentiments. Some, a few distant cousins, who had shown their blatant disrespect too many times already, snickered.
Who would steal a body from a funeral home?
I overheard them ask. And I’ll admit I almost chuckled with them. Who indeed?
Many in our family could say that my grandmother was a judgmental person. I could remember walking with her