College

This zine spans two years of the author's life, age 21 to 23, and she explains it as follows: "This zine is a disorganized hodge-podge of my last years in college, and my first months of post-grad. Like my last issue, there are tons of references to coffee, Harry Potter, and not showering. But I bookended this round with two comics about my mom."

I took the title from a Clarice Lispector chronicle & said everything I write this year will be called an abstract door b/c it feels like I'm always trying to open or enter an experience & never being able to, such as the theme of this first issue: job search post-college, mother-daughter relationship, happiness.

Hippo Goes to College is a short story Zine about a Hippo who goes to College.

Set amid the cornfields and keg parties of Jasper, a fictitious midwestern college town, this book depicts the struggles of Underdog, a townie, against his many enemies at Jasper College. He competes with a professor, in a book deconstructing the TV show Green Acres, for the affections of a beautiful but haunted woman...

College of DuPage's literary magazine

"This time around it is me and Sue holding up the linear Ramones style stuff while Fred and Tony 2 keep pumping out all that Sonic Youth on crack stuff. I guess it's all pretty dumb."

Thoughts on homelessness, payphone fraud, the 1994 Punk Awards, music reviews, guide to subculture terms, an interview with a friend's mom, and made up interviews of punk bands.

<p>&quot;Sometimes a disquieting idea, for at its core, an alternative signals difference: a state some may dustrust, others tolerate, still others, embrace. Fortunately, divergent views remain energetically alive, experience brings hope, exhilerating no matter what the outcome. In this anthology on less traditional and predictable lifepaths, the intensity, humor and spirit of these writing actually transcends differences, evidence of the strength found in exploring less travelled roads.&quot;</p><p>Contributors, cont'd: Mary Damon Peltier, Shirley Powers, Rita Reinert, Ellen Rosen, P. Kelly Rugg, Amy Sanderson, Patti See, Claudia Rosa Silva, Carol Smith, Grazina Smith, Sandra Tatara </p>

Poems in three parts: "Placenta," "Ireland," and "Waiting for Something to Happen."

Non-fiction stories on being swindled by a scammer into thinking he and his friends would receive $30,000, a punk band stranded in Indiana and staying in the middle of nowhere with a latex mask artist, finding punk comaraderie at North Illinois University, receiving a letter in the mail upon high school graduation that he wrote to himself in junior high, and getting hand burns from falling out of a tree house.<br />