The third issue of the ambitious and variously artistic "zine" UNo MAS, features two short stories in its mix, one by Zachary A. Barocas, perhaps still most famous as the second and more-recorded drummer for the DC-based punk band Jawbox (a great favorite of mime from their first shows); and Dan Vergano, who might just be the same DV who is now a senior editor at Scientific American.
The Barocas vignette, "Past Tense", is a very mildly surreal psychodrama involving someone living a bit of a hermit's life, perhaps beginning to enter a crisis of dissociation from consensus reality. A rather good scratch board illustration is uncredited.
The Vergano is a slightly more extended short story, "Eseentially Not Enough Morbidity" (with an illustration by Gareth Kaple) but also a stream of consciousness, albeit from the point of view of a more garrulous alcoholic protagonist, engaged with one friend or drinking partner or another as it skips from conversation to conversation regarding the ghosts which haunt him, in some cases quite literally in nesting in several of his body's organs.
For more of today's Short Story Wednesday entries, please see Patti Abbott's blog:
The online version of UNo MAS as retained by Archive.org's Wayback Machine.
The fiction archive preserved thus.
Founding editor Jim Saah's 2001 interview with writer/memoirist Frank McCourt
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