May 9th, 2009 / 12:04 pm
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Five Star Literary Stories

I love people. (And then there are those I don’t love, but that’s another post.) A year ago or so, I was “discovering” online writing and discovered some writers that blew my mind. The list is long but I’ll be brief and incomplete: Tony O’Neill, Elizabeth Ellen, Scott Wrobel, A.S. King and T.J Forrester were writing stuff that effectively made me put down the print journals I was reading for a while. T.J. Forrester’s stories showed me (read this great one on Storyglossia, a journal I keep meaning to post more about) a man so thoroughly talented and and so heartfelt in his work that I sort of cyberstalked him. He handled it pretty well. He also runs this great site called Five Star Literary Stories, where an editor of an online literary journal  nominates a story that he/she loves for review and then T.J. has another writer write a review of said story. It’s a wonderful addition to the rich world of online lit. Right now, they have a  fantastic review by Clifford Garstang of  an E.C. Osondu story from Guernica. Check it out.

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15 Comments

  1. May 9th, 2009 / 5:44 pm T. J. Forrester—

      Thanks for this kind and generous post.

  2. May 9th, 2009 / 1:44 pm T. J. Forrester—

      Thanks for this kind and generous post.

  3. May 9th, 2009 / 1:50 pm pr—

      my pleasure T.J.-

  4. May 9th, 2009 / 9:41 pm david erlewine—

      Very cool, PR, his piece in StoryG is insanely good. Five Star is such a cool thing.

  5. May 9th, 2009 / 5:41 pm david erlewine—

      Very cool, PR, his piece in StoryG is insanely good. Five Star is such a cool thing.

  6. May 9th, 2009 / 9:42 pm david erlewine—

      I forgot to say cool a third time.

  7. May 9th, 2009 / 5:42 pm david erlewine—

      I forgot to say cool a third time.

  8. May 9th, 2009 / 9:49 pm david erlewine—

      PR, I’m cool with the fact that you shouted out now to Cliff and not a few weeks ago when Five Star posted a review of a David Tallerman story…but your e-mail message saying “your shit ass reviews should take notes from Clifford’s stellar ones” was a bit of a cheap shot. In between reading to the blind and building houses for the poor, I don’t have as much time to write/review as I’d like.

  9. May 9th, 2009 / 5:49 pm david erlewine—

      PR, I’m cool with the fact that you shouted out now to Cliff and not a few weeks ago when Five Star posted a review of a David Tallerman story…but your e-mail message saying “your shit ass reviews should take notes from Clifford’s stellar ones” was a bit of a cheap shot. In between reading to the blind and building houses for the poor, I don’t have as much time to write/review as I’d like.

  10. May 9th, 2009 / 8:33 pm pr—

      You lost me here. Huh? Is my brain so fried I’m not getting the joke?

  11. May 9th, 2009 / 8:41 pm pr—
  12. May 10th, 2009 / 4:11 am david erlewine—

      Hi PR, sorry I was tired from building a duplex this morning and thought it sounded hilarious. I know you’re hilariously nice and was using that as the foundation (sorry, to much building!) of my lame ass joke. Five Star is a really cool site that I hope continues. Speaking of continuing…3 am who is no longer accepting fiction subs. Ain’t that about a bitch?

  13. May 10th, 2009 / 12:11 am david erlewine—

      Hi PR, sorry I was tired from building a duplex this morning and thought it sounded hilarious. I know you’re hilariously nice and was using that as the foundation (sorry, to much building!) of my lame ass joke. Five Star is a really cool site that I hope continues. Speaking of continuing…3 am who is no longer accepting fiction subs. Ain’t that about a bitch?

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