How Metazen Works
away we go…
metazen publishes stories by various authors
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metazen publishes poems
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metazen publishes new content every single day
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metazen has a schedule:
monday- a story is published
tuesday- a story is published
wednesday- a story is published
thursday- a story is published
friday- a story is published
saturday- a ‘literary saturday morning cartoon’ is published
every autre sunday- a “best of metazen” is (usually) published
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metazen likes odd stories and odd poems, but ones that touch you in a special way
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metazen began in March 2009 on a small coffee table with Frank staring at a bluish screen. Frank was drunk and hopeful
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metazen does not believe in non-fiction, both in a literary sense and an existential sense
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some stories will feature a Frank, who is a sad man. a pathetic man. a writer. a lonely, lost man. Frank is real. Frank’s stories are real. Fictional Frank and the Frank of this site are one and the same. They are also not the same at all
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some stories will be completely devoid of Frank because they are written by other, more talented authors than Frank
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it is important to help metazen grow because it is not a ‘for money’ kind of thing
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metazen welcomes submissions and feedback
Metazen is an online fiction zine that publishes short fiction and poetry by various authors. Metazen is a flytrap for metafiction, existentialism and absurdism. It harbors all kinds of filth such as neurotic characters, obscure philosophies, love for inanimate objects and quests toward enlightenment.
Metazen occasionally follows the real life, meta-fictional exploits of Frank.
Metazen is edited by Frank Hinton, Christopher Allen, Caitlin Laura Galway and Riley Michael Parker
Editor Alumni: Julie Innis, Finnegan Flawnt
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it is great how metazen has taken off. i love the mag. and i am even beginning to like frank.
btw. the real reason for this diatribe is the missing photo – incidentally, it says “away” on my page instead of the pic that was there before (an elderly lady taking off)
I like it – and I like that you don’t like ‘non-fiction’, which is a fiction, just a dishonest one.
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I love the freshness here at Metazen. I love the big wide open spaces here that mimic how the world once was before it became toxic and overcrowded. I love the toxic aspects here that eliminate the wide open spaces. Forget everything I said. Concentrate on the love.