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    Trachodon 3
    Trachodon 3
    Trachodon 3
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    Trachodon 3

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    Trachodon 3 features literary writing by some of today's most engaging authors. In God's TV, a new story by Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award favorite Pete Fromm, a husband stands on the brink of fatherhood and looks into a future that's at once bright and impossible. Heather Clitheroe takes us into the mind of a clinical scientist and reveals a compellingly disordered view of the world. And In The Littlest Goat, Dan Pinkerton offers a portrait of a family man paralyzed by a fear of bridges, and over a homecoming weekend, peels back the layers to expose deeper fears that we all carry. In Printer's Devil, an essay on artisan culture, Ray Scanlon recalls his summer apprenticing in a print shop when moveable type was still the industry standard. A portfolio of mixed-media visual art by Marianne Dages rounds out our third issue.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrachodon Magazine
    Release dateSep 4, 2011
    ISBN9781465919014
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    TRACHODON Magazine publishes today's best fiction by today's best writers, and nonfiction on themes of artisan culture, appearing twice yearly in paperback and ebook formats. Our mission is to connect readers and writers using every channel available, through a chapbook-sized publication, with a nod to the little magazines of the past while using all of today's technologies.

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      Trachodon 3 - Trachodon Magazine

      Editor & Founder

      John Carr Walker

      Associate Editor

      Katey Schultz

      TRACHODON

      PO Box 1468

      Saint Helens, OR 97051

      editor@trachodon.org

      www.trachodon.org

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of our authors.

      Trachodon welcomes submissions of fiction and nonfiction during the months of April-May and October-November and flash fiction year-round. Poetry is currently by invitation only; poets are free to query with a bio statement and description of work. Note that essays, articles, profiles, and other journalistic works should be about craft movements, antiquated processes, or artisan culture. Nonfiction writers are encouraged to query first. Fiction may be any style, on any theme or topic. Please read our expanded guidelines by visiting our website or mailing us a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

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      Copyright 2011 Trachodon Publishing LLC. All rights reserved.

      Print ISSN: 2158-5970

      Table of Contents

      John Carr Walker

      Editor’s Note: Time and Space

      Pete Fromm

      God's TV

      Heather Clitheroe

      Bacillus Anthracis

      Marianne Dages

      Artist Statement

      Daniel Pinkerton

      The Littlest Goat

      Ray Scanlon

      Printer’s Devil

      Katey Schultz

      Bare Bones: To Write, Draw

      Contributor Biographies

      John Carr Walker

      Editor’s Note: Time and Space

      I confess, Doctor Who is my latest obsession. Mind, I’m not a big television watcher, and not a dyed-in-the-wool science fiction fan, but now and then a show presents characters and tells a story that has me from the first scene, and before long I want to watch every episode, learn something about every actor, and memorize snips of dialogue to be used in future conversation. (And yes, a conversation with me can be quite trying.) Given that there’s nearly fifty years of Doctor Who, I might be riding this obsession for awhile.

      Because the Doctor is funny and serious. Wild and in control. Smart and clever and wise. There’s a difference between those three, and not many characters can be them all. Furthermore, the character of the Doctor is complex and conflicted, doing good now because he’s not always done good in the past.

      Developing that sort of personal and psychological baggage is a tricky matter for a writer. Backstory, particularly in smaller forms where the audience’s attention span also seems shorter, bogs down with quicksand-like speed. Blocks of the past often wind up subtracting from the story, when the writer’s intent is to add something crucial, necessary. We all recognize that an adult character in a short story, whether literary fiction or television episode, has a past that has shaped him and informs his current actions. We instinctually recognize that characters don’t live and die at the beginning and end of a story. It’s natural enough for a writer to want to include this or that trauma from childhood. We want to explain why our character is afraid of flying. We want to show the event that made him this way. Won’t the reader want to know the reasons?

      Sometimes a short story writer can learn a lot from television. After all, a TV writer is working in a tiny box. The story has to fit in a certain amount of time, and scenes are going to be broken by commercial breaks, and exposition must be held to an absolute minimum. Given those constraints, the TV writer has to work obsessively with the matter at hand. That is: Where are we? When is it? How did we get here? Who is involved? What’s happening now? How is the next thing going to happen? Even in a show like Doctor Who, in which all of time and space is available, a writer can’t afford to get sidetracked with backstory.

      The Doctor is almost one thousand years old. Imagine how dull and impossible an episode would seem if we flashed back to his stiff, controling Time Lord father every time the Doctor met a teenager? Instead, mercifully, we get an

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