Factory

Our newest Brilliant Disguise story is prepped and coming down the line at you: “The Working Life,” by Matthew Oldridge, based on Springsteen’s “Factory.”

The machine was usually used to punch a hole for the electrical cord in the side of a nearly finished chest freezer. The freezers rolled down the assembly line twelve times per minute, which was the company’s required speed. Except for the times when the line went down. That was bad for the company, but good for the workers. Production is down, morale is up, we always say. Hard to keep morale up when the machine is latched onto my arm.

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A Few Things

One: If you somehow missed it last week, Issue Nineteen is now available for your reading and downloading pleasure. Feel free to laud the authors in an exaggerated fashion, as a lack of ego-stroking is one of the main causes of writer’s block. Or maybe it’s just nice. I don’t know; I’m not a doctor.

Two: There are two new reviews of Exponential Apocalypse out there on the internets, one at Dazed Rambling and the other at eclectic/eccentric. Please read responsibly. To the best of our knowledge no one has lost their shit in the comments and we’d like to keep it that way.

Three: We’ve got at least the next two issues in the chamber, and Monica and I are going to be busy the next few weeks, so we’re going to close submissions at midnight on April 15th. We’ll be reopening them on June 1st, probably with some changes. We’ll let you know. In the meantime, write until your hands cramp.