Our 2012 Theme Issue: Remnants
by Fringe Magazine • 10.13.2011Fringe seeks submissions for its sixth-anniversary theme issue: REMNANTS.
Remnants are fragments, scraps, traces of what came before. Remnants are the slivers of soap left in the dish and mashed into a ball. They’re Sappho’s poems, incomplete, but evocative; the crumbling, Gilded Age mansions of Detroit, vestiges of better times; the still-burning bits of rig from the Deepwater Horizon spill; the vacation train ticket found stashed in your wallet, half a decade later; and the love letters scattered by the Joplin tornado. Remnants—the remainders of our lives—speak to the whole that has vanished.
As always, we invite you submit work that engages the theme topically and/or formally.
Submissions for art close February 15, 2012. All other submissions close March 15, 2012. Please follow our guidelines, and add “Remnants” to your subject line.
Here are some Remnant-themed possibilities to get your mind going:
From the Fever-World, by Jehanne Dubrow
Y: The Last Man, by Brian Vaughn and Pia Guerra
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
Found Magazine
Blood Dazzler, by Patricia Smith
Fringe Magazine was founded in 2005 by an all-women group of editors dedicated to political and experimental literature. The quarterly online journal has published work by more than 120 writers and artists since its first issue in February 2006. Each month, the magazine receives 13,000+ unique users.
We look forward to seeing your work.
The Editors of Fringe
www.fringemagazine.org
The Dragons
Cove
Once Opon A Time there was a princess named Mayona Nytoria she lived in a castle on the Northern Side of a small island called The Dragons Cove. She waiting while while prince by prince fell into the grasp of the dragon Karu.
One prince named Ramero Marcoa (the Gentle and Kind Hearted) herd about the princess trapped in the Dragons Keep. He headed off on his Trusted steed (Martar) going to await the princess.
What Ramero didnt know is there was four more princes who also wanted to take
the princess in marriage.
First was Bralko the Brave.
Second was Falco the Strong.
Third was David the Brilliant.
Fourth was Nathanial the Intelagent.
Last was John the Selfish.
Bralko was first to approach the Dragons Keep. Once he got a glimpse of the Karu got of his steed and took ahold of his sword.
Karu just stood looking at Bralko and then said ” Ye will anwer a riddle. If ye answer thy riddle correctly ye may pass.
Bralco said with a smerk on his face “give me thy riddle so that i May answer.
Karu anwered ” Ye look in thy heart and ye find a key, Ye open thy chest and what may ye find.
Bralco thought for a minute, then anwered with little emotion ” Ye will find courage as courage is thy secret to all success.
Without warning Karu spewd fire at the prince tossing him into the lava below.
Next to arrive was Falco. When he saw Karu he First grabbed his Sheld and put it up for protection.
Karu looked at the prince, he said like before ” I will ask ye a riddle if ye anwers thy riddle correctly Ye shall past.
Falco seeing that Karu’s size was bigger than he amagined was not as confident as Bralko. He gulps and answer ” i will answer thy riddle and pass on through. ”
Karu said ” ye look in thy heart and ye find a key, ye open thy chest and what may ye find?”
Falco thought for a minute and then anwered ” Strength is what ye will find as strength is thy secret to all ye success.
Agian without warning Karu spewd fire at the prince tossing him into the lava below.
One by One all four princes tried and failed.
Ramero came to the dragons keep got off his Martar and bowed to the dragon to gain his respect.
Karu spoke to the prince and said “Ramero arise, like i told thy others before ye, ye must answer a riddle if ye answers thy riddle correctly ye make pass.
Ramero answer with little confidence, “For thy princess I will anwer ye riddle and take thy princess to be my wife”
Lucky for Ramero Karu was impressed with the young prince he was hopeful for the princess.
Karu said the riddle “Ye look in ye heart
and ye find a key, ye open thy chest and what may ye find?”
Without thinking Ramero said ” Only one thing can possibly be in thy chest, inside your heart love is thy emotion that fills are hearts once we see that one person who fill thy emptiness that can only be filled with love.
Karu stared at Ramero as he wondered were his fate will turn. Karu finally answer “Ramero ye are thy chosen one for the princess Mayona as long as you pass one more task.
Confuse Ramero answered ” For thy princess i will conplete this task that ye comand and do it for thy princess alone.
With a sigh Karu said ” ye must slay me with what ye have in hand for i am thy threat to ye and thy princess.
Ramero was a little scared for Karu was fifty feet high and five hundred feet in length.
Before the fight started Ramero prayed to God saying to him “Lord give me strength, courage and intellegence for i am embarking on my biggest challenge yet.
Once the fight started there was no stop. Ramero took his sword and grasped it with both hands jumpe into the air and Jammed it in to Karu’s Head, kiling him instantly. Ramero had won.
Karu had every thing on his side but he was
no match to Ramero and his God.
After slaying Karu the Prince Ramero and Princess Mayona got onto Martar and rode off into the Sun Set.
The End.
I DO WRITE POEM BUT I WANT TO IMPROVE MYSELF
VISSION
What a lovely to have
You are so great
And so wonderful
How i love to know you
From the beginning of my life
Oh vission
But without you
I have no futre
And without actualising you
Have wasted my life
Oh vission
How wondaful things to know
And be fulfilled
I am also doing poetry on nature. Recently I have written this piece. Please do comment.
Urbanization
Paid lot of money for noise
Inside a luxurious flat
Sitting in corner of its lounge
Steering at an aquarium
Where fishing were swimming like frightened kids
Sometimes come close to the glass
Staying, looking at you like stranger
You quench your thirst by looking at them
And I am boating in a village river.
Fakhar Hayat, Peshawar Pakistan
SEED
How small you are
How dangerous you can be
When someone didn’t
make use of you
In your Season
How fruitful you will be
To someone that planted you
In your Season
What a great Fruit
You will bring forth
When someone water and
Clear your weeds in due time
And what a great pleasure
You will bring when aeting
Your fruit in yourn season
Let me kno how can I submit my poems.
Regards