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New Stylings for the Chicken

I’m messing with layout and things, as you no doubt have seen, hence the lack of new content. I’m trying to migrate all my links and et ceteras from the original Blogger account, and I have to do it piecemeal. So I draw your attention to those links on the right hand side. You may [...]

Revelations, fiction by Tamara Linse

And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Revelations 20:10

Dan, Killer, and I are in the Kum & Go snagging some breakfast before heading off to [...]

Fracking Good/Fracking Bad

This first article, basically a rehashed press release if you ask me, gives you the gas company perspective, as well as the web address of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a group of (wait for it–not government regulators, not community members, not EPA reps) gas companies (oh, we can trust them, big business has never [...]

Bottom Dog Press's Appalachian Working-Class Fiction

I should have known about these folks long ago, yeah? Somewhere along the line I found out about them and forgot until recently, when Charles Dodd White told me about an anthology he’d be editing with Page Seay. More on that at the end of this post. What I found most intriguing was this list [...]

Ringlets, fiction by Jim Parks

Rosalie’s hair is glossy and black, as glossy and black as a raven’s wing. It hangs down over her sun-bronzed shoulders and back in ringlets she makes with a curling iron.

She reaches up and back to grasp a sheaf of these ringlets and there is the brisk metallic sound of a spring-loaded hair [...]

A Milk Jug Birdhouse, poem by Helen Losse

A Milk Jug Birdhouse

My mind rejects
what my eyes can see. A girl—
using a phone book for a booster seat—
sits at a table in the yard, beside

an abandoned clothes dryer. She’s
carving a birdhouse from an empty milk carton.
A suit of armor and a plastic pineapple
are under a longleaf pine, where drops of rosin

glue sword to fruit. The fields nearby [...]

Blitz, fiction by Caroline Kepnes

It was snowing pretty hard and I was driving with one eye open. Not another car in sight, I never could understand how a person lives in a place where other cars are up on you all the time. I like my space. I like other people having their space too. I was so blitzed [...]

Frack Your Wells and Fuck Your Water

Why isn’t anyone talking about this? Or am I not looking in the right places? And by the way, duh.

Gas drilling in Appalachia yields a foul byproduct

Map shows the Marcellus Shale formation in the Eastern U.S. (P. Prengaman – AP)

By MARC LEVY and VICKI SMITH

The Associated Press
Tuesday, February 2, 2010; 2:40 PM

HARRISBURG, Pa. [...]

2009 Million Writers Nominations

Good luck, chicken scratchers.

Story 1: “Bent Country” by Sheldon Lee Compton http://friedchickenandcoffee.com/2009/06/30/bent-country-by-sheldon-lee-compton/

Story 2: “Justice Boys” by Sheryl Monks http://friedchickenandcoffee.com/2009/07/24/justice-boys-by-sheryl-monks/

Story 3: “Blind Lemon” by Jim Parks http://friedchickenandcoffee.com/2009/06/04/blind-lemon-by-jim-parks/