PATHOS, the long-awaited fourth issue of our online, free-to-read and free-to-submit-to, literary magazine, INSTANT NOODLES, is now available. This issue features over sixty submissions including original poetry, short fiction, and art. Various submissions feature an MP4 recording of the authors performing their work, so you can read or listen.
Thanks to the many, many contributors who helped make this issue a huge success!
Miss Cordelia’s hand motions moved them toward a door flung open under a stairway, and she guided them, floating head over heels, down into the basement, with Tony screaming while Herbie and Nate struggled in silence.
”Now my loves I have to tend to the oven, but trust me I WILL BE BACK,” laughed Miss Cordelia as her bare feet scratching against the wooden steps took her up to the kitchen.
So…. what happens to those boys?
If you like a little scare with your Christmas, you’re going to want to find out if they get out of that basement.
Oh yes, she puts them in the basement.
And then?
It’s the genius of James Goodridge. You’ll have to read the rest to find out.
Mwah ha happy holidays……!
Hot, Buttered, Holidays. You know you want it.
And this issue has readings from some of the authors. (And there you were, doing all your reading yourself, like a sucker.)
Now, hear the authors, in their own voices, read their own words!
“As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; so off to the Instant Noodles page the readers all flew, to find some amazing art and a poem or two!”
Happy noodle days to you~
Thanks for supporting this teensy indie press. Big love~ Di and Dave
Humans adapt. It’s what we do and why we’ve managed to survive generation upon generation.
The latest global pandemic has, if nothing else, shown that many among us can, in fact, work virtually, full-time without any noticeable loss in production or quality. To this end, Skype, Teams, WebEx, and numerous other video conferencing platforms have been proved to be more essential than ever before. Probably none more so than Zoom.
If you haven’t been in a Zoom meeting in the past ~400 days, then consider yourself lucky. To those of us who have been less fortunate, we present to you “Final Zoom Meeting” by Robert Fleming. It’s quite possible that after reading Mr. Fleming’s piece, you may never want to log into a teleconference again.
We hope you enjoy.
Have you read all of the first issue of Instant Noodles?
If you have, you’ve seen “Curious Knots,” the short story by Steve Saulsbury.
As soon as our reviewers read this story they knew we had to have it. It’s the kind of story, as a publisher, you wish you could have show up over and over, in different forms.
It has the feeling of a poem, and a perfect sense of place. I can see the whale; I can feel the wet cardigan.
If you haven’t read this story yet, what are you waiting for?
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