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News & Events For The Week Of October 27-November 2

HARD NEWS FOR SOFT HEARTS

Thursday was a pulled-tooth. Plucked right out the week and stuffed into the maw of nevermore. A plush, death-blue comforter on an otherwise sheet-less bed, with a silken black tom on the border of dream and each beneath a churning November sky.

My rent is still not paid. I’m getting by on homie-burgers and random purchases of back titles and poetry readings. I read for the dead, neé spoke and prayed on Halloween, but it’s all prayer from here on through Good Reader.

I’d blame the dearth of news and events for this week’s Countdown… on the fucking drag of current events but that’s only half-true. I feel these grisly turns of the Anthropocene profoundly and am sapped to my core. Meanwhile the cloying world claws, nickel-and-diming me in the supermarket where I leave my bag of groceries unpaid if still online and able to take calls.

I’m on deadline, but it’s a deadline that doesn’t pay. I’m woodshedding that doghouse bass for a packed month of shows. To my chagrin everything is going to happen at once, including—releases from Christia Madsci, readings on the road from Your Truly, split-EPs, overdue collections and a staff-writing position working for the least of us.

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In 2018 I was at the onset of a terrible awakening. I was homeless and deathly-ill, unemployed in Trump’s America but I had a gig. I made it through and wrote my way through and to the end of Into The Void. Editor Phil’s writing fiction now. I’m between gigs and the world is at war. I’m sitting on more work than I ever have in a couple-decades’ career on the outside. All I need is you.

Infamy and glories from the columnist’s desk, Jim Trainer reporting for Into The Void Magazine 2018-2021

You’ll be hearing from me personally. I’ll be honoring my vow to reach all ≈700 of you on this list and pledging another decade in your service. Check in and make this connection real. It’ll be no copy-and-paste job, Bubba. Write me back k. Be nice to, ya know, hear from ya and see what’s shakin’ wichu and yours as the final century winds down nice and sleazy.

Always on the wrong side of whatever side there was,
TRAINER
AUSTIN TX