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    Trachodon Issue 4
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    Trachodon Issue 4

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    Trachodon 4 features writing by engaging contemporary authors. In A Very Minor Prophet, an excerpt from the novel by the same name, author James Bernard Frost takes us into the strange, heart-rending world of a zine-making prophet in Portland, Oregon. Ellen Prentiss Campbell explores the grief of a mother who’s lost her child--and blames herself--in “A Long Time To Be Gone.” “In Love With Louise,” a short story by David Hicks, introduces us to Trent, a character warped by love and loneliness. Nicol Stavlas takes a clear-eyed look at public art in Bloomington, Indiana, and asks the hard questions about ownership, provincialism, and artistic values in “What Art Means When It’s Gone.” Visual artist Kreh Mellick contributes a trio of gouache paintings created during her time as visiting artist at the Oregon College of Art and Craft.

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    PublisherTrachodon Magazine
    Release dateFeb 25, 2012
    ISBN9781466159938
    Trachodon Issue 4
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    TRACHODON Magazine publishes today's best fiction by today's best writers, and nonfiction on themes of artisan culture, appearing twice yearly in paperback and ebook formats. Our mission is to connect readers and writers using every channel available, through a chapbook-sized publication, with a nod to the little magazines of the past while using all of today's technologies.

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      Trachodon Issue 4 - Trachodon Magazine

      Editor & Founder

      John Carr Walker

      Associate Editor

      Katey Schultz

      TRACHODON

      PO Box 1468

      Saint Helens, OR 97051

      editor@trachodon.org

      www.trachodon.org

      www.cheekteethblog.com

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of our authors.

      Trachodon welcomes submissions of fiction and nonfiction during the months of April-May and October-November and flash fiction year-round. Poetry is currently by invitation only; poets are free to query with a bio statement and description of work. Note that essays, articles, profiles, and other journalistic works should be about craft movements, antiquated processes, or artisan culture. Nonfiction writers are encouraged to query first. Fiction may be any style, on any theme or topic. Please read our expanded guidelines by visiting our website or mailing us a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

      Published twice yearly in paperback and ebook formats by Trachodon Publishing LLC.

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      Limited backlist available. Please make checks payable to Trachodon Publishing LLC.

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      Copyright 2012 Trachodon Publishing LLC. All rights reserved.

      Print ISSN: 2158-5970

      Table of Contents

      Editor’s Note: The Particulars

      John Carr Walker

      A Very Minor Prophet: A Novel Excerpt

      James Bernard Frost

      A Long Time To Be Gone

      Ellen Prentiss Campbell

      What Art Means When It’s Gone

      Nicol Stavlas

      In Love With Louise

      David Hicks

      Bare Bones: In Praise of Bulletin Boards

      Katey Schultz

      Artist's Statement

      Kreh Mellick

      Contributor Biographies

      John Carr Walker

      Editor’s Note: The Particulars

      In his book On Becoming A Novelist, John Gardner quips that even Malcolm Lowry belonged to a community of like-minded writers. Anyone who has read Under the Volcano, with all its interior angst, bursting-at-the-seams description, and missile-like motion toward the inevitable end, understands the humor in Gardner’s choice of words. Lowry’s prose reads so much like that of the hermit, the isolated curmudgeon, the sagely Wildman who lives in the cave at the top of the mountain, it seems impossible that the language and structure of the novel would have survived any community.

      Because there can be danger in community: we tend to devalue that which seems to have been created without the community’s sense of values—created, in a sense, without community consent. What’s so remarkable about Malcolm Lowry belonging to a community isn’t the fact that the author of Under the Volcano got along with other people, (which is rather surprising), but that his writing was accepted, even championed, by other writers.

      Every writer worth her salt knows that at some point she’ll have to stand apart from the community. She’ll have to skip a bunch of readings and cocktail parties, leave her online writing group, or choose to ignore the feedback from fellow writers. She understands, in her gut, that new generations of readers and writers are discovering Under the Volcano, for example, precisely because it is a defiant novel, utterly stubborn in its brutal depiction of a man at the end of his rope. It’s a scary moment, the first time one chooses to stick to one’s creative guns.

      So I’m tremendously happy to be presenting stories by Ellen Prentiss Campbell and David Hicks, a novel excerpt from James Bernard Frost, an artisan culture essay by Nicol Stavlas, and visual art by Kreh Mellick, because each work is, in its own way, stubborn. These creators stick to their creative guns.

      I mean this as a compliment. I love work that is eccentric in its particulars. This is something utterly different from style: style can be manipulated to make a familiar story seem peculiar, but it will be all special effects and no substance. The particulars, however, are the DNA of the story: the words passing through a mother’s lips as she looks upon her dying daughter, what a man justifies when his life has been warped by loneliness, the significance ordinary objects assume when considered by a breaking heart. The particulars are moments of incontrovertible truth we might not notice unless the writer gets them wrong. Our contributors get them so, so right.

      ~

      I would be remiss if I didn’t take an extra beat to say more about James Bernard Frost’s A Very Minor Prophet, an excerpt of which TRACHODON is thrilled to present just ahead of the novel’s official release. There’s a special buzz surrounding this book. Published by Hawthorne Books, a great Portland, Oregon-based press that’s part of a global conversation, A Very Minor Prophet has recently been a Book of the Month selection at The Rumpus. We first published Jim’s writing last year on Cheek Teeth, a piece of flash fiction entitled Agate. It’s worth visiting www.cheekteethblog.com to check it out. It always makes me happy when I have the opportunity to work with someone a second time, and it’s fitting that the first flash fiction we published is authored by the same person who wrote the first novel excerpt to appear in the pages of TRACHODON.

      James Bernard Frost

      A Very Minor Prophet

      In an instant, I was jolted back to life. The bike parts, the theater seats, the paint-splattered altar, the goddamn Big Six wheel, they were

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