NEW April issue of WritingRaw.com online

WritingRaw is a monthly literary magazine dedicated to new and emerging writers. Our goal is simple - to serve the literary community with the opportunity to have their work online and out in the world. In this world of disappearing literary magazines, WritingRaw is providing the blank pages for writers to fill. To view someone's writing, click on the link and a pdf version of the piece will open in your browser.

We are still looking for:

· 500 words or less essays about your struggle to write or published in the traditional sense (put Struggle in the subject line of the email). These essays can be read on the Tips/News page.

· Books to Promote between stories, poems and articles (we are closing the Bookstore and placing these book promotions on every page everyone can see them) Send us a jpeg of the cover, a brief synopsis, and ordering information with the actual link (put Promotion in the subject line of the email)

· And we are always needing Fiction, Poetry, Articles and Essays – all genres, all lengths

Send any of these to Weeb at weeb@writingraw.com

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In the April issue:

FICTION:

· A Penny Lost is a Penny Found by N. Joy Lutton: Shawna's dreams comes true after finding her own Prince Charming and taking a trip to Disney World. But should she have made a wish upon a different star?

· Bloom in Baghdad by A. M. ben Yitzhak: "Baghdad, Iraq. The Wake-Up Day. The Final Day in the Suck. The Day of All Good Things. The Freedom Bird awaits. A violation of trust. A break with protocol. What are the thoughts that pass through a war fighter's mind in the ultimate heart beat of his life, between the explosion of the VBIED and the final release of death? BLOOM IN BAGHDAD probes the nexus of belief and doubt, of war and religion, of deo and patria." Mahalo.

· Diorama by Kate Campbell: Grief and memory frame Ray's twisted heart as he goes deeper into his mother's life and death. Scene by scene, he embraces her, submerges into the painful theater of her life and becomes complete in the disturbing darkness he has concealed, transmogrification complete. It's true: We are becoming our mothers.

· Finding Amy by LaShawn White: Do you ever really know who you are or where you come from? Aisha Thompson thought that she knew where she belonged in this world and in a matter of seconds her life is turned upside down and she can't be really sure of who she is and who she can really trust. Finding Amy is about Aisha's true journey into discovering where her roots truly lie and that the people you love and trust the most aren't always as they seem.

· Homecoming by Anne Short: Will's wife of 60 years begins to mistake him for her former finance, Carl, the man who died by Will's side in The Bataan Death March. Now he is haunted by memories of his death, guilt of betrayal and his wife's inability to recognize him.

· Human Horses and Bangla by Anand Dubey: When we sit comfortably, secured and fulfilled in our potpourri scented luxury apartments with matte, satin or eggshell finishing on Brazilian Rosewood panels, rubbing our asses on Italian black leather sofas, switching through 500 channels on our Beo-vision plasma T.V sets with HD and 3D technology and drinking fine Montrachet wine while gliding our tongue through cheese swirls; somebody strives hard for bread, to fight hunger and fetch one time meal and put themselves on sale not to get life but to delay death yet not losing the essence and spirit of life and sharing.

· It Didn't Matter by Dan Sloan: An afternoon walk that ended with the summation of a life.

· Mario Polzetti by Rod Hamon: Mario Polzetti is the boss of one of New York's Crime Syndicates; a man who allows nothing to stand in his way. His thoroughness in covering his crimes is constant frustration to the police and in particular Detective Leroy Dabrowski who is determined to out smart him.

· No Good Deed by Joan Mazza: A retired psychotherapist offers to talk to a child about her nightmares unprepared for what they reveal about her neighbors.

· Out of Thin Air by Kathryn Netzel: "Out of Thin Air" examines a complex relationship between brother and sister. Narrated in the second person, this story forces the reader to internalize the uncomfortable realities of growing up with a self-destructive sibling, while also forcing the narrator to come to terms with her own reality.

· St. Marc's Man by Kyle Iverson: An old man with nothing left returns to the country of his birth, where a younger man struggles to forgive himself for his past. Both were changed irreparably during the Troubles fighting for the losing side. When their cause was lost, were they lost with it?

· Texas Clout by Logan Seidl: Past prosecutor, Guy Slade, now finds himself defending those that he used to fight so hard to put away. His new case tests the justice system and questions what really is right, showing that nothing is simply black and white.

· Truth or Dare by Kelly Seale: The four of them were snowed in for the evening, which was ok by Alex. Three beautiful women, and one man. Every guy's dream, right? Alex Had no idea of the rollercoaster ride he was in for on a late November evening, snowed in with his beautiful wife Andrea and her two best girlfriends. When a game of Truth or Dare is suggested, Alex, reluctant at first, joins in the seductive game with a dark secret that could effect his relationship with Andrea, as well as her two best friends. At the very least, It would leave all of them with a night they would not soon forget. I invite you to join them for an exciting, sensuous game of Truth or Dare...

POETRY:

· An Interchanging Poetry View of War by Mac McGovern
· Beholder's Eyes by Ushiku Crisafulli
· Caravaggio by Michael Corrigan
· Desire by Luigi Luccarelli
· Hope by Callum Williams
· Killer Streak by John Grey
· Next Stop! by Juliette Beswick Pokletar
· Savor the Night by Sarah Terzo
· Wake Up by Alex Cougill
· Well Suited by Chris Birrane
· Your Nocturnal Radiance by Scott Lutz


RIB HAS A NEW COLUMN: The Time Capsule
Forget magazine pronouncements of the sexiest or most interesting. Award shows come but once a year. Rating systems and polls do not include me. And who decides must lists?? Here is the place to get the feel... think zeitgeist... culture. Rib knows what we should be excited about and what should drop off the radar. Just call it instinct or let me know I am wrong and perhaps we could have it out. What has us thinking this month? Here is the flavor of the moment, a page in time for...


ASSORTED:

· Bed Bugs & Beyond: A Play in One Act by Mark Blickley: Bed Bugs and Beyond is a vulgar play with lofty intent. NYC is currently facing a bed bug scourge and these frightening creatures are even more horrific when one extensively researches their violent and perverse misogynist sex lives which are a wonderful metaphor for the political attacks currently being waged against women and gays in 2012.

· I am Jacks Close Eye by Anand Dubey: We run on false claps following the "Yuppie Manual"; times when brands wage wars to hack into our inviting brains. The topics of bar discussions is the latest t-shirt or sofa unit and the driving force i.e. advertisements controlled and circulated by few powerful want us to feel uncool, blabbering and stupid.

· Ode: To The Last Great Giant by Jake Sullivan: There is a lot to say about the poet, hard workingman, hard drinking intellectual named Henry Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994) however; those snob-nosed literary critics will point to the contrary. To the critics, those traditional stalagmites of old lore, good ole Hank, as called amongst those closest to him, is nothing more than a thorn in the side of the university English departments and traditional writing system this country was so founded.

· Shylock in the Twenty-First Century by Christopher Nagle: Dealing with Jews and Jewishness is every bit as dangerous a subject now, as when Shakespeare wrote 'The Merchant of Venice' in the late 1590s. All the prejudices are toxic and navigating them is always tricky, as it was for Shakespeare, only these days, more people hate a nuclear armed Shylock, and more vehemently, than ever before. More, we are now hostages to his fate in ways Shakespeare could not have imagined.

· The Musings of an Idiot by Anominus: People who write anything with any degree of seriousness usually put their hearts and a lot of hard work into it. We send it off and we hope for the best. My stuff didn't get published, so I asked myself, "Was it me?" Well, maybe...

· Void by Ronald Fischman: "Is." The stative suggests something that lasts beyond time and season, beyond you and me, even beyond observer and observed. The Void "is" an unknowable depression under a real boulder in a real glacial stream. Share the magic of father, friends, and children at this crevasse of magic.

· Winds of Change by Mr. Ben: Winds of Change parades a matrix of stories, depicting experiences of people in different countries of the world and conveying their situations as good, bad and ugly(at the discretion of the reader). The ageless material contains stories that touch the hearts of (concerned) individuals and explores various 'welldones' and ills of the society. Good, funny and sad endings underscore the profundity of the literary material.

· Windswept Tales from the Coast by Christopher Nagle: Journeys are not just a matter of passing landscapes, but interactions with the landscapes of the mind. Travel is a mental and emotional prompt, and a reminder that all experience can be a stimulating juncture of perception, memory and reflection. When one speaks of a 'wealth of experience', this is not just a vacant figure of speech, but a call to value add our lives. There is so much more to cycling than the trip!

7 QUESTION INTERVIEWS:

· Wolfram Fleischhauer: Wolfram Fleischhauer has published 8 novels, all of which have been translated into several languages. Current release: Fatal Tango

· Jonnie Jacobs: Jonnie Jacobs is the author of thirteen novels. She is an active member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and has served on the Edgar awards committee. Current release: Paradise Falls

· Marissa Meyer: Marissa Meyer lives in Tacoma, Washington, and her debut novel is: Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles

· Larry D. Sweazy: Larry D. Sweazy is the author of the Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger (Berkley) series. His current release is a standalone thriller: The Devil's Bones

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