Contents: 45 brief stories. None are deep. None are wise. Some are funny.. Some just thing they are funny. The only thing the stories have in common is that they were inspired by the titles to 45 books by Joyce Carol Oates. The stories are not inspired by the books. They just took her titles and did their own thing. You will like these stories. You will not like these stories. You will read this description and wonder why anyone would waste their time with this book. Or you can buy this bo...

The universe is a woolly place.The universe is made of felt.The Big Bang was a soft though consistent annoyance.Dogs chase after runaway planets.When planets collide, it is okay because everything is felt.Neptunians are always cold and really just want to wear something cozy.And that's the thing. We want to be cozy.This issue of The Ekphrasis Take-Out is a cohesive collection of felt and the universe.This zine will be made of ...

Cyborg 2087 was a 1966 movie with Miichael Rennie.It is not the most well known of science fiction movies.That does not mean it isn't good, just that it isn't recognized.One of the things it is known for is its similarity to the plot of Terminator 2.David has decided to write this short book in 72 hours. He will watch Cyborg 2087 and express what it is about.He will dive into issues of plagariesm and the act of borrowing someone else's ideas....

How do I become a prolific writer?Simple. You write.But writing is hard. It is intimidating. I need more details.Okay. Here it is. We are about to give away the entire book.Write 200 words a day. That's it. Just write 200 words. It will take you under ten minutes to do that. You do that every day. You will be prolific. You will be writing and you will have a blast.So do I need to buy this book now?Not if you don't want to. But it goes into gr...

Argle-bargle means copious but meaningless talk or writing. And that's what this zine is going to give every issue. For our first issue, we tackle the question, "Regular or double stuffed?" This is a fine and important question.We spend a lot of time trying to figure out which of the two sandwich cookies is the best. We look at the cookie through taste, medicinal ability and artistic worth. We really go whole hog. We run off at the mouth thinking which cookie is best in the mouth.

This is a list of what to do when the government tells you to stay at home and try not to get sick. It is just one list. There can be others. There should be others. But you get this book, you get this list.The Hangover Hour Report is a new journal where each issue allows an author to write whatever they want. The one rule is that it must be completed in 72 hours.

People weep at the movies. If an old guy goes to a movie by himself, there is a chance he will be crying by the end. No matter what kind of movie it is, he will be crying.David Macpherson is that old guy crying at everything.In this personal essay, he attempts to understand the joy and art of crying at the movies.What movies do you cry at?Should men hide their tears away, because crying at a movie is a such a girl thing to do?Or is it universal?...

There was a website about monsters. It was all about monsters.Sounds fun. But don't bother looking for it. It's gone.The internet is like that.The website is gone but we have the FAQ page. And in honor of anyone who remembers that there used to be a monster website that didn't completely suck, we are publishing this relic of an older internet.The FAQ is a strange thing. Does it really answer the questions everyone asks, or is it more random than that?

Who did you idolize as a kid? Who did you see as a hero?David Macpherson has asked that question to himself and assembled 100 heroes of his from before he was 13. When you are a kid, you are the most open to having a hero.Each hero gets a little essay describing why they mattered. Some of these are funny and absurd. Some are moving. There are a good deal of comic book and television heroes, but some of these were real. All too real.What David Macpherson has given yo...

When you finish writing a book project, you have to ask the important question, "Did I learn anything from this?" It's not to fix the book you just finished. It is asked to get ready for the next book and the book after that.David Macpherson writes very short books. His books are 50 to 80 pages. That gives him a lot of chances to think about what he could learn. This book includes the book projects from 2024. There are nearly 25 small books that he wrote.What did he learn? ...

Where is Fancy Bread?There was a seminar on how to write the best book copy and one of the main rules is to get the potential reader's attention by a quick and pertinent question. Ask a question. Grab them. Drag them along to the rest of the ad copy.And this question is the best one yet. Where is Fancy Bread? Not only is it the title of the book, it is everything in the book. Every chapter is another time where Fancy Bread is visiting some location. He is also dressed to th...

David wrote two similar memoirs in the form of lists. One was all the monsters he loved before he was 13. The second memoir was all the heroes he loved before he became a teen.This collects both 100 Monsters and 100 Heroes. What makes a hero you love? What makes a monster you love? Can they be the same character?These two little books were meant to be together.And now they are