Illustration by Lee Kuruganti © 2007
NOTICE: I absolutely hate to tell you this, but I've somehow lost all of my subfolders in my personal email box. This means that all of those poetry submissions for the poetry book are gone. I blame the cyber monkeys, please send them again. Only the personal email is gone, not the printstaticmovement@hotmail.com so you don't have to send me those again...
Please look at the forum for comments people are making on the contest stories, look at the Static Movement forum under Static Movement Contests.
Movie Review
KANE See No Evil by Paul Campbell
Crack by Paul S. Gifford -“ Don't step on the cracks Paul.”
Taedium Mortis by Louise Norlie - The houses were tiny and dilapidated, hunching low and tense as if for warmth.
Guilty by Ricky Ginsburg - I had not had the opportunity to converse with the gnarled old man who smiled at me through tobacco-stained lips prior to the execution.
Fantasy
Grow Fins by Keith P. Graham - It was well past midnight and the lights were out. Lamont searched the kitchen by feel.
Finding Beauty by Branigan Grace - The sign for the Forever Young Treatment Center flashed neon-pink in the mirror above the women's vinyl chairs.
The Disapperance of Alice P. Liddell by Michael Hanson - After a series of grisly events that have left New Jersey residents horrified over the past 48 hours, missing Rutgers University Freshman Alice Pleasance Liddell was found staggering and incoherent on the outskirts of Atlantic City, NJ this morning.
Impulse Control E. J. Knapp *some adult content* - Mickey didn't approve of zoos, but that day she had a hankering to visit the wolves.
Nostalgia Trip by Kenneth J. Crist - It is one hundred forty-four miles, from Las Vegas to Barstow, California. Somewhere in that stretch of the Mojave Desert was where the Event occurred. At the time, I didn't even realize that anything had happened, but over time it has come to haunt me, to rule my life.
The Accordion Player by Roger Bonner - The door of the inn opened and a man stepped in. He was squat, with a bullet head.
Through the Circle by Tala Bar - The Minstrel pondered on that phenomenon that had appeared before his eyes.
Jacqueline by Rachel Kovaciny - I came into the world six months ago.The Kootenai River gave birth to me. At least, that's how I tell it to myself.
Silent Delivery by Jamie K. Schmidt - Ignoring the fact that his feet were dangling sixty feet above the earth, Cedric strove to achieve a deep meditative level. The stone window sill was cold and hard beneath him.
Fiction
At the Seaside, by the Sea by Florence Stanton - Danny insisted they drive to the beach that day, and Paul complied. His brother was a comical figure at five foot nine, two hundred-thirty pounds and thirty two years old, running along the shoreline in a worn UltraMan jacket and baggy khaki shorts, his squirt bottle, magic pouch, and Gamepod flopping from the loops of his waistband and his pockets loaded down with favorite rocks.
The Call by John Stanton - I figured it was about time for you to ask me about that again. I haven't felt “The Call” for several years - “the tug,” yes. A nudge here, a little reminder, a synchronistic hiccup just to let you know that it's still there, keeping tabs on you - I doubt if that will ever go away.
A Perfectly Clichéd Day by John Irvine - What a morning! Crisp and bright, cloudless sky, no wind...
Hungry by Mo Irvine - Who were they, those men, standing so silent and solemn, all faced to the left in their orderly queue?
The Magi Caper by Bill Schweizer - “Gretch, what do you think could have become of the gold?”Hope by Mo Irvine - When I came to, I thought I was blind, and in a panic I smashed through the crust of snow that had shielded me from the worst cold of the night. I scraped ice off my goggles.
Waiting by Ken Head - I shall remain calm while I tell this story because the testimony it contains is all that survives of my husband's life and must stand for his body, which has never been found and his ashes, which I do not have to scatter in the woods he loved so much in spring-time when the bluebells came.
Three Little Pigs (THE REAPER VERSION) by TGreaper - "You cheap fool!" Johnny snapped at his brother Wilbur, who was chewing on a piece of straw. "How much it cost you, fifty cents?"
Bear by P.L.Johnson - I closed the front door behind me, locking out the present with it, Harley keys in hand. My ole lady was already on back waiting, ready to go. *Some Lauguage*
Romance
Saving You by Jamie Lin - It seemed like just yesterday when you got down on one knee and took my hand in the middle of a casual dinner at your place.
Science Fiction
A Feast of Eyes by Gareth Jones - When the dinner guests were informed that the dish they had just enjoyed – the delicately spicy sauce wrapped in tender flesh but pleasingly crisp on the outside – had actually been the eyeballs of a stiprafian guargitt, the announcement had a profound effect.
Of Bunny Rabbits and Men by Arthur Sanchez - "In 1887," Professor Goldberg said as he wrote the pertinent parts of his lecture on the blackboard in large, neat, letters, "E.L. Trudeau, a physician in Saranac Lake, New York, conducted an experiment linking living conditions with the care and treatment of disease.
Static Spotlight
Nephillium by John Mannone
Stardust in the Gold by John C. Mannone
Tabukari John C. Mannone
Poetry
A Surrealist Love Story of Tainted Love and Wedding Proposals by Lee Kuruganti
Haunting Me by Michael Hanson
Riddles of Madness by Kevin James Hurtack
Perfection by Margot Miller
Comics
Along the Chesapeake by Adrienne Ray - A continuing comic to be added to each week! Fifteen
X:13 - by Kevin James Hurtack - A continuing Sci-fi-/horror comic to be added to at least once a month.
