Two really exciting new handmade chapbooks (I will not call them ‘chaps’) from the exciting, pastel colored Magic Helicopter Press: Mary Miller’s LESS SHINY and Benjamin Buchholz’s THIRTEEN STARES.

Here are specs:

Mary Miller’s LESS SHINY

5×7.5
Saddlestitched
36 pg
First Printing: November 2008, 75 numbered copies

• DESCRIPTION •

A collection of short short stories from the author of Big World (short flight/long drive books 2009). Mary Miller’s stories have appeared in the Oxford American, New Stories from the South 2008, Mississippi Review, Black Clock, Quick Fiction, Barrelhouse, Hobart, and elsewhere.

• EXCERPTS •

from NOÖ Journal: “This Boy I Loved a Rock”

from elimae: “South Dakota”

from SmokeLong Quarterly: “A Blind Dog Named Killer and a Colony of Bees”

Benjamin Buchholz’s THIRTEEN STARES.

5×7.5
Saddlestitched
36 pg
First Printing: November 2008, 75 numbered copies

• DESCRIPTION •

A collection of poems and photographs from US Army officer Benjamin Buchholz, who is the author of the non-fiction book Private Soldiers from WHS Press, now nominated for the Book of the Year Award by ForeWord Magazine. Work Buchholz published in 2007 has been nominated for the Pushcart, the Million Writers Award, and included in the anthology Best of the Web from Dzanc Press.

• EXCERPTS •

from NOÖ Journal

from Tryst: “Promotions and Demotions”

from Tarpaulin Sky: “Nowords”

Two killer new things to read and gift and give and enjoy. Cheap! Kick it.