Volume 1

Issue
1

What do you see?

What can you
comprehend?
What is the genesi
of your
consciousness?
Turn to the next
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 Simple, nothing What do we offer here,
Before I shall special, everything’s in this magazine? We
expound what this just cliché. So what write more happier
magazine proffers, do you think in life
than ever before, and
let me ask you can make you
gleeful? also we yearn that you
something, but don’t are reading happier
worry, it won’t be than before, and hence,
meaningless or Tell yourself what exemplary writings
verbose: Had you makes yourself will be saturated in
ever see yourself gleeful. Really here. You can close
flying? Not literally, gleeful, of which full
yourself in the quiet
but a figurative, and of ivory towers, of a
gamut of things you room and read
which means if you everything in here, you
wish to have in them,
can realize that can realize something
of a plethora of
everything which is glitterati(s) helping that is free of charge,
lackadaisical before you to be another lots of free things
had changed into a glitterati. which can make you
more enjoyable life. flabbergasted.
Then tell yourself I Incorporeal though, it
want to be happier, can be made into
My friend, a lanky something bigger, like
and your wish--you
and naïve guy, had might think it’s a happiness. Say to
asked me: “How’s chimera, but it’s yourself I WANT TO
life?” going to be true— READ HAPPIER.
will come true.
Are you up in the empyrean Editors
relishing everything? Or are you David Kee
in the higher echelons and
enjoying with your mammoth Schimon Ernest
wealth?
Dante Alexander

Now, while you are reading this

magazine, you should say: I am Writers
in the highest reading room in Shawn Alase
the highest scholar, where I am
reading the quasi-highest shelve Tyrone Theodore
of books, and where the highest
magazine is found. This is the
highest magazine. (I’m not
bragging.)

I hope you enjoy our singularity,

my dear reader, and finally, I
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Wondering how the congruent tidings can become the many
hidings…
Wondering how we can stand on the shoulder of giants…
 FILLERS

What speculative fiction is all about.

What is speculative fiction? Is it about specs for a book or some

other random thing? I decided to find out.
Speculative fiction is all about the prediction of the future. Many
people believe that it needs to include events of the present and
past, others not so much. This very large idea of predicting the
future is very flawed as well. For example right now the scientists
recon that the world is going to get flooded because of global
warming, but the problem with this is that it may freeze to death.
An example of this is The Day after tommorow © 2004 Twentieth
Century Fox. Most of the predictions of the future are false and
just FICTION so don’t go around building bomb shelters for no
reason. All in all Speculative fiction is not real, But is a good read.
Literary terms, and parts of speech that you may not have known about.
Foil- A type of character whose actions emphasize qualities of another character, usually the
protagonist.
 Spoonerism- A play on words that rearranges words in a sentence, or parts in words of a sentence.
The rearrangement should still have real words, though, grammatically incorrect, and totally
unrelated to the sentence. For example, instead of saying “a crushing blow”, “a blushing crow” would
be used.
 Internal Rhyme- A rhyme within a line
Asyndeton- a small part of writing, such as a sentence, motto, or quote that deliberately excludes
conjunctions between a sequence of related clauses.
Allegory- a type of writing that has a meaning other than its literal meaning. Basically, an extended
metaphor, because it applies to an entire piece of writing and all that lies within it are connotations.
Euphemism- the replacing of a term which is harsh or impolite with a more acceptable, milder term;
used to turn a negative term into something in a positive light. An example would be saying “laying off”
instead of “you’re fired”.
 Flashback- a type of narration in the story, which involves the displaying of events before the
present setting of the story.  Usually displayed in the form of thoughts, dreams, or stories, and is
used to provide the reader with background information, more details about the characters, and
possibly remove confusion towards the character’s personality.
Onomatopoeia- A word that, when pronounced, sounds the same as the sound that it makes. Splash,
buzz, boom
Personification- giving an animal or an object human qualities
Hyperbation- The mixing-up of words in a statement, while still having it be comprehensible. Used
quite often by Shakespeare.
Conflict- A struggle found in the plot of a story. 4 types: Character vs. self, character vs. character,
character vs. nature, character vs society
Bildungsroman- A narrative where the protagonist experiences growth, spiritually, and mentally,
throughout the story.
Aphorism- A concise saying which summarizes a moral, theme, or life principles.
Diction- Refers to the style of vocabulary and expression presented by the speaker or author.
Often upon hearing such a question, a fiction writer will think “Where don’t you get story ideas from?” The
reason for this is there are story ideas all over the place, often right in front of you.
Newspapers, magazine, books, television, the Internet, any medium can offer thousands upon thousands of
ideas for a story. And it doesn’t matter what genre you’re writing in. The ideas are out there.
The truth is professional writers will often come upon the kernel of a story and not have a clue what to do
with it, not at first. Then they’ll mentally ask “What if?” And sometimes it’s just a matter of putting two
separate thoughts together to come up with an idea.
For example, say you’re at the doctor’s office in the waiting room. You’re perusing a magazine and come
upon a story about great places to fish. Okay, no big whoop. Where’s the story idea there? Well, what if
several of those great places to fish also happened to be near industrial plants? Hmm. Think. Think. What
can you come up with? Monster fish! Okay. Stretch it a little further. Monster fish that are seeking
revenge against the fishermen! And there you’ve got a story. Sounds like horror, but maybe you could turn
it into something else, science fiction or fantasy.
Need another idea? Okay, you’re online looking around at Wikipedia. You randomly pick a couple of articles.
Up pops the first article. It’s about the Voynich manuscript, an undeciphered book of what appears to be
words and drawings, that was first discovered in about the 15th century in Europe. No one to this day has
been able to figure out what this manuscript is about because it seems to be in some kind of secret
language. Okay, you randomly seek another Wikipedia article. Up pops a page about the Gearing class
destroyers, battle ships first used by the U.S. Navy toward the end of World War II. So, try to make up
something that connects the Voynich manuscript with one of the Gearing class destroyers. Sounds
difficult? Nah! There’s a hundred ways to do it. Maybe some Nazi spies have stolen the Voynich manuscript
and believe it is an ancient treatise on some kind of an unknown energy, something like a super laser, and
one of the Gearing ships is chasing down the Nazis in order to save the world. Or maybe a seaman aboard
one of the ships goes to an island near Japan and discovers a codex similar to the Voynich manuscript; the
mystery ensues because the two manuscripts are so similar but were found hundreds of years and
thousands of miles apart.

See? It’s really that easy. Ask yourself “What if?”

What if someone could throw a baseball all the way to the moon? What if a knight from the Middle Ages
fell in love with a Muslim princess during the Crusades? What if a car suddenly sprouted wings and could
fly like a giant insect?
 What? Is the anthology so curt? I want more!

A new and fuller literary anthology will be coming up