Hard-boiled fruit!

Pear Noir! Issue #1 is now out (and proud) (unless it is being persecuted for its sexual orientation) (Sorry for outing you, Mr. Noir).

With a editor named Daniel Casebeer, does it really matter that the content surpasses much of what I’ve read in lit magazines lately? Does it really matter that every single story (yes, every single story; even my comparatively lame attempt) touches on brilliance? Does it matter that this new mag has the word ‘Noir’ in its title, but is colored unabashedly pastel shades of green and pink? It doesn’t.

I’ve rarely picked up first issues of lit mags with great expectations (the last being Colored Chalk #1, but only because Master Caleb J. Ross edited the thing – but will, from now on, be called Caleb J. Barrelwhiskey when assuming the editor’s role).

Author’s note to my story, “The Camel of Morocco”:

Vein Letting is a real thing…gross.

Issue #1 includes these fine young cannibals and cannibalesses:
Peter Schwartz, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Molly Reid, Jessica Hoard, Sandy Green, Richard Radford, Corey Mesler, Jéanpaul Ferro, William Walsh, Zachary German, Gregory Luce, Howie Good, Megan McLachlan, William Doreski, Jason Heller, Tao Lin, Raffi Robert Kiureghian, Dana Mazur, Thomas Patrick Levy, Brandon Daiker, John Bruce, Joseph Grant, Caleb Ross, Kenneth Pobo, Robert Swartwood, Greggory Moore, Derek Dexheimer, J.J. Steinfeld, Valerie Z. Lewis, Milan Smith, Les Plesko, Ann McArdle, Gail Gray, Lacy Cunningham, Lydia Davis, L. Burrow, Kelly Scarff, David Starkey, PM Mooney

Buy it direct with the publisher. $10 well, well, well spent.