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The Winter 2008 issue of The Literary Hatchet has just been released.

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Contributing writers include:
richard behrens
david marshall james
sherry chapman
eugene hosey
michael brimbau
brenda kern
kat koorey
michael lee johnson
aurora lewis
larry allen
stefani koorey
grim k. de evil

Thanks, Stefani.

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Nice one Stef: A cover taken right our of one of my dreams.......

That is one scary cover!!!!

Will we able to order a hard copy, and if so when?

Wow! An old composition doll on the cover! How neat. They can be very scary looking, can't they?

The 2nd edition of The Literary Hatchet is finally available for sale in hard copy! Only $8!

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The Literary Hatchet is a bi-annual literary edition of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History. The Literary Hatchet publishes contemporary short fiction, poetry, prose, photography, cartoons, and humor by established and emerging writers and artists from around the world. Subjects range from mystery, murder, macabre, horror, monsters, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night.

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Reminds me of that doll on TV "Chucky".

Wow! What a scary cover! It's great!

Last night I read "Someone in the Household" by David Marshall James (page 8 - 14). It was sooooo good! What a great writer Mr. James is. More! More!

The subject, I thought, was a good one. I could not put it down until the end. It took me into the Borden house on the eve of the murders. Mr. James shows himself well informed on the Borden case. I like how he characterized Lizzie. Her sarcasm seemed just the thing for her. Alice Russell did not seem to believe Lizzie's "they're-gonna-get-us-all" attitude, but in this story I think the writer is more giving Lizzie's point of view on that conversation.

Mrs. Borden's flatulence. OMG. I laughed my head off. I've never read anyone having her do that before, but it fits perfectly. I thought that was a most original touch. It sounds ridiculous, but I was impressed by it.

I thought the ending was pretty good.

I'm going to guess that Mr. James is not new to the field of writing. I think it was a professional piece, extremely well done. I just loved it.

Larry's poem on page 16, "Mad Jack", I thought was good. But then, all his poems are. I am not a poetry critic; never have been. I just read them for entertainment and not dissection.

I thought "Forked in Itasca" by Michael Lee Johnson, page 17, was rich and somewhat deep. I felt emotion from the poet when reading it. Good stuff!

I have never read anything by Richard Behrens that I haven't liked, and his poem, "New Bedford Confession", was no exception. You're just a man full of all kinds of talents, aren't you, Richard? I liked what I thought was an original take on Lizzie.

"Deja Vu" by Eugene Hosey felt like I was reading a story from one of those Alfred Hitchcock paperback anthologies (not today's magazine). And I loved those anthologies! It was suspenseful all the way through. I thought Eugene really got inside the main character's head. The story was short; which was good. I think it was more powerful that way. Writing it longer, a writer runs the risk in a story of this type of dragging and possibly pulling the reader somewhat unwillingly along. I thought the story was polished and very well done.

Yesterday I read Richard Behrens' "The Case of the Purloined Curio " with Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective. Now that I've read at least one of the Girl Detective stories, it was easy to slip into this one. I didn't want to put it down and read it pretty much straight thru. I thought it was well plotted and extremely well written. Some of the imagery was striking, such as page 25, first column, where Abby's feather duster is compared to the flicking of a tiny bird. The humor of her dusting was great. You'd think nothing could be left to say about Abby and dusting, but Richard put an original spin on it. The humorous parts of the story worked for me - I was laughing out loud in some spots.

I do wonder if the use of "gentlemen" should have been "gentleman" in three instances (page 22 is one). If "gentlemen" truly was meant, I did not understand why. There was a use of "whose" (which I can't find in the story now) when someone was speaking who was saying "who has" (I think), and I wondered why it was written as "whose" instead of a contraction. I wouldn't think it had something to do with the person's dialect. When Tom says, "I always did want to be a musician," I thought I remembered that line from the first Girl Detective Story. It's a great line, but it didn't strike me nearly as funny as the first time I think I read it, because I had read it before. The scenes in the shrubs sound much like they were used in the first story. In any event, they are ringing a loud bell with me that no one else probably noticed.

Thank you for a wonderful, entertaining story, Richard. And I hope there are many more to follow.

I just love those Lizzie Girl Detective stories. When I start one I usually have to sit & finish it in one sitting. I also always have to get the dictionary out because there is usually a word in the title or a couple in the story that I have to look up!!

Thanks everyone for the compliments on the Girl Detective stories. I'm working real hard to make them entertaining, funny, and appealing to Bordenites. I know in the world of Lizzie, accuracy and exacting historical detail is the ideal, but not being a rigorous historian or scholar, I decided to go for parody and amusement.

Augusta, I apologize for the confusion but the Purloined Curio is a reprint from an earlier editon of the Hatchet. Stef decided to present the story to the Literary Hatchet audience. Hence, the Homer-in-the-Bush part of the story that provoked deja vu all over again.

So far I've published 4 stories between The Hatcher and the Literary Hatchet and there is 2 more stories in the works. And then a NOVEL!
Something to look forward to in 2009.

Thanks again for being delighted readers and for giving feedback.

Well, I enjoyed it even more this time around. I'm glad it was reprinted in 'The Literary Hatchet'. A perfect place for it to be read and enjoyed to the max. It can grow well there, with no limits - readers expecting and wanting just what you're giving them. I'll bet your novel sells good!

Yes, the girl detective stories are da bomb, for sure. I'll be sure to order my LH.

ADDENDUM: I loved that busy little Lizzie story again, as did some posters above. I helplessly laughed out loud when the Bordens all met on the street (I won't spoil it). I'm not rushing through it, because I want to give the poems their due. I can tell you enjoyed the Twilight Zone-like story about the telephone call, though.