{"id":210,"date":"2010-07-18T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2010-10-23T22:16:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T20:16:32","slug":"the-thinking-mans-crumpet-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"The Thinking Man’s Crumpet 3#"},"content":{"rendered":"

As its editor, Coral King says ‘TTMC has balls’.\u00a0 Originally, set up as a small press magazine for emerging female talent the girls were unfortunately a bit shy in their contributions, which is perhaps just as well for us blokes as those that did contribute were worryingly good at horrifying. <\/span><\/p>\n

Issue 3 begins with Control<\/em> a fairly hardcore SF short by Anna Stephens and a follow on from a previous Q tale that I rather liked. The protagonist is a HILDA -Hazardous Lifeforms Disposal Expert and believe me she disposes. ‘…the stairwell was momentarily tinted rose as minuscule scraps of flesh and blood hung in the still air.’<\/em> The ideas are interesting, it’s fast paced and energetic and the language is at times exciting and full of colour. <\/span><\/p>\n

Solstice<\/em> by Franklin Marsh is about young Carl who’s off to a festival at Stonehenge but you get the feeling he won’t be coming back. One of Marsh’s great strengths\u00a0 is his dark humour and perhaps I was expecting more of it here.
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Beyond the Door<\/em> by Bennedict Jones is the highlight of the magazine for me.\u00a0 It’s a story with minor faults – at times one feels the characters and situations are too much drawn from real life rather than utilised to further the plot – but this is only a pedantic\u00a0 quibble. The door, is real enough, terribly frightening and the story leaves a very bad aftertaste in the mind. In other words its a goodie. <\/span><\/p>\n

David Karata\u0161 (his name has a wee symbol over the ‘s’ which I can’t find on the computer)\u00a0 gives us the Strange Crucifixion <\/em>where four pilgrims are off to solve the problems of good and evil. I’m afraid that good is going to be the loser. It’s not a story I especially enjoyed, and its not the best of his stories, but there is some eerie quality about Karata\u0161’ work that defies analysis. I have seen many of his incipient tales\u00a0 on Filthy Creations writers workshop and every time I read one I get the sense that this writer is unique. I also find it incredible that a man can write in a language that is not his own and still achieve this credibility. Read it and see if it doesn’t somehow affect you.
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Rubbish <\/em>by Suzanne Jackson is an apparently mundane tale about the neighbour. It’s very short but extremely good and in the end it’s not mundane at all – its damned scary.<\/span><\/p>\n

This edition features authoress,\u00a0 Sue Rule. Ghost<\/em> is a story of a steady woman and her arty friend. It’s an extremely believable and poignant tale with an acerbic end.\u00a0 She Walked into the Night<\/em> is another ghost story of equal merit. ‘Can you fall in love with a ghost?<\/em>‘ Rule makes us believe you can in a plot that twists and turns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maidenhead<\/em> by yours truly, Craig Herbertson is a sequel to Soap 7<\/em> published many years ago in ‘Works 7’.\u00a0 There’s a ship, a girl and a media virus to contend with.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps its the simple bloke mentality but I would rather the fonts changed less –aesthetically it looks great but it was at times a bit tough to read. At the risk of being lambasted for stereotyping, I’d like to bet that women wouldn’t have any problem with this.
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Artwork by Karn Mcloud and Roger Pile and a bit of poetry make this absolutely sterling value for money. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Thinking Man’s Crumpet is available at <\/span> http:\/\/www.freewebs.com\/thettmcmagazine\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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