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Artifice Magazine is devoted to fiction and poetry aware of its own artifice: pastiche, mash-ups, cut-ups, experiments gone awry, sly metafiction with heart, whatever.

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On Cover Letters

from the folks at PANK Magazine:

We are often surprised by how many cover letters simply state, “I am surviving.”

With surprising frequency, we get cover letters where writers explain the significance of their creative work and/or why they write because they want us to understand without equivocation that which they have to say.

The one constant is that the cover letters we read are sincere and plain and true. They are like the maps in rest areas with the bright red star below which you find, in neat black letters, the words YOU ARE HERE. They reflect hope and frustration and ambition and it is all so staggering, it could just break your heart.

(via http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/?p=664)