Fiction International is pleased to announce the winner of our 2011 short fiction contest (Blackness): "Rogues Gallery II" by writer Mary Byrne. Ms. Byrne will receive a cash prize of $1000.00 and her text will be published in the 2012 issue of FI, About Seeing. We'd also like to congratulate runner up, Dorothy Blackcrow Mack for her text "The Black Cradleboard" which will also be published in About Seeing.
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Re Nuclear Annihilation of Sheep
Bomb Fuck! magazine re the nuclear annihilation of sheep: Past 30 years US govt. systematically exposes Wyoming/Utah livestock to eventually (often quickly) fatal levels of strontium 90 as WW3 disaster scenario investigation. Local indices of lung, skin, breast, throat, prostate cancer alarmingly, criminally high. Lambs commonly stillborn, born deformed. Carcasses are buried in fields, where they pass into ground and then human food, or burned, where they carry into the air and then lungs. One small town gradeschool reported a shocking lukemia rate of 9%.
Citizens' Watch reports: Even after the much celebrated cuts to civil defense spending, US govt. spends more on weapons of destruction (including research and training) than it spent in its entirety 17 yrs ago. CW predicts continued spending increases through year 2005, predicts US involvement in a major (defined as 1500 kilotons or greater annual explosive firepower) foreign-soil conflict in next eight years. Popularity of Sec. Colin Powell seen as significant index of public sentiment. DoD widely accepted as single largest employer in Western Hemisphere, despite investigative difficulties caused by Secret classifications.
Message posted on alt.consipracy.mutilation.cattle Feb. 23, 2001: I have it on good authority that the US Air Force used experimental bio bombs on the Iraquis in Desert Storm. Sources in the know tell me it wasn't a major effort, and didn't materially affect the outcome of the conflict. What it did was demonstrate they are real and really effective. It was a proof of concept. USAF Colonel Joel Barker recently got dishonorably discharged and immediately hired by the CIA for an undisclosed annual salary to work on stuff nobody talks about. What we do know is that he's a military doctor who also holds a PHD in biogenetics and was CO for a small insignificant corner of the desert. Seems Desert Storm Syndrome is ten times as likely to occur in soldiers stationed within fifty miles of Barker's command post. What are they hiding?
Cuttle Group, ultra-fringe think tank, phone interview Nov. 3, 1997: CIA believed to be in control of Russian elections. Putin will be elected and will die within five years. Most likely current hard-line Communist or nationalist candidate to replace him. New Russian regime and increasing bellicose Ukrainian foreign policy to justify continued expenditures by military industrial complex. CG reports CIA not driving this action; merely following orders. CG cannot locate true source. NSA, President, Dow Chemical advanced as possibilities. Within three months of phone interview CG analyst staff has turned over by 85%, including 1 suicide and 1 sudden, fatal stroke.
Incident at New-Clear Order, Berkeley CA-based, left-wing, political paranoia tabloid: Sometime between May 3, 1999 and May 7, 1999 Editor-in-Chief Abdur Kologani receives anonymously information reported to "conclusively" demonstrate that US govt. has been regularly and illegally performing assassinations on both foreign and domestic soil, assassinations for national security purposes but also occasionally to facilitate continued black operations in US govt. three-letter security agencies. Kologani reported to accept accuracy of document and fully prepared to publish. Sometime after 6:35 pm May 9, 1999 Kologani receives a communication in some form. He will not elaborate, but by 10:00 the next morning he's decided against publication and has reportedly "destroyed" original document. Source, medium, or content of any communication to Kologani unknown. Sez a close source, "Someone got to him." Twenty-two days later Kologani moves to Qila Saifula, Pakistan, where he is reported to be alive but cannot be reached for comment.
Literature of mathematics as applied to politics: Hanstedter teaches us that secret organizations must always spring up inside large societies. His fifth theorem calculates mean delta t to the formation of each additional revolutionary org. as a function of population and existing # organizations. We therefore know that approx. 17,200 revolutionary organizations exist in US, w/ 6.17 created each week and 1.09 destroyed for a net of 5.08 orgs. per week. Farr calculates that at 18,433 +/- 205 US civil war takes place.
Lisa Warner of Norwood MA awakes to find the following message written on her breasts: You have to decide what is the truth and what is the self-serving propoganda of the hate machine. Until you make fact yours, the facts will be theirs.
Go now and find truth.
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