Growing Up

A personal zine about living in Chicago and Punk Rock music. Great for fans of Cometbus!

A personal zine about living in Chicago and Punk Rock music. Great for fans of Cometbus!

A personal zine about living in Chicago and Punk Rock music. Great for fans of Cometbus!

A short collection of poetry and essays on a variety of subjects like growing up, insomnia, and living with a disability.<br />

An introduction to Patrick&rsquo;s autobiography. This is Part I. Recollections from growing up in an Irish family Queens during the Depression.

<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>

&ldquo;...My oldest friends may remember me asking them for a month or so during my mid-early twenties for reasons they wanted to have children. Those of them who eventually wanted to have them. Hetero and homosexual and whatever else, alike, I asked them. I wanted to hear an answer that sounded unselfish to me, although I was sure none like that would come...&rdquo;

Short fiction tracing a series of haircuts given to herself and to her friends, through a series of dye jobs (and dye-job betrayal) done by a beauty shop worker whom the author had also bonded with through her hair.<br />

Scenes from Becca&rsquo;s life; this issue deals mostly with her relationship with her brother.

One in a series of chapbooks published of writers at the Guild Complex. A collection of poems on a variety of subjects by the PolyRhythmic collective.