Volume I of the PRL Serials, titled “It Exists” in honor of the volume headliner, will be 12 of the most interesting issues of a periodical that anyone could ask for. You might laugh, you might cry, you just might come up with your own adventure for a character and decide to submit it for consideration to be featured here, in the PRL (contributor’s email: rdc2104@gmail.com; will also consider original works). Whatever your reaction, I hope that you find something interesting here to look forward to.
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This week:
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Say hello to the man and his preternatural abilities. This installment of It Exists finds the man in a canoe, and he makes his girlfriend appear out of thin air?! Or wait, does the man have a girlfriend?
It Exists Issue 1 (Amazing Elroy, The Magician Bk. 0): “The man in a canoe decides that he can use a companion and the only one that he really wants is April. He sits up in the boat and stares at the plank of wood that was an empty seat across from him. He closes his eyes for a second and when he opens them again, April is sitting there…”
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This week’s One-Shot, Maria, is from a series that will debut in Volume 2 of the serials, Made In America. Maria is beautiful and smart, and maybe after this one-shot, you’ll think she’s a bit crazy too. But did I mention that she’s beautiful?
Made in America (Maria One-Shot): “It seems obvious that Maria is looking for something and maybe she plans very soon to take off on a plane or a boat in search of it, but why does it seem that she is charting a course for the stars? Does she have a plane that can launch her into space? A ship that can navigate corners of the oceans into the depths of space? What is it that Maria is looking for?”
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Also this issue, meet the inhabitants of Ladoga, NC through the writings of Maxwell “Rebel Max” Roberson. Max was a writer with nothing to write about. Until he went home. This week, Max makes a new friend who takes him back home without even trying.
Selections from Rebel Max’s Journal (Vol. 1): The Encroachment of Things “I had a dream about Ladoga recently; I was in the park playing basketball and all of a sudden, a big hand came out of the sky and ripped the court up from the ground like it was all a prop. It was a funny dream, not the nightmare that it sounds like, and everyone that was on the court ran away like it was a cartoon. The hand pulled up everything and left just a white background. I woke up to a strange sound then; the bedroom window was up and I crawled out of bed to close it.”
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This week’s Legacy Series is Emma (or The Artist). Emma is an Artist. Not an Artiste, or whatever the PC female version of artist is. The woman is a beast. And I should warn you that her world is a little warped.
Emma (or The Artist) I (PRL Legacy Series): “Emma takes pictures to hug the moments she loves best with light and save them flat in her pocket.”
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Wesley Livingston tells you why music matters to him and why it should matter to you. And yes, it takes 4 parts to make the point (the man will take any excuse to make a playlist).
Let the Beat Build (Part 1 of 4): “Music is the bridge to my past and it’s one of the ways that I bond with loved ones. It seems that I inherited music from my family, the music that they played when I was too young to have any musical tastes of my own, became the rubric by which I made my own definition of what good music is.”
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And an experiment, a serial poem. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Stone Hand, the Great, or The Terrible, honestly it’s kind of hard to tell.
Stone Hand (leaders and Leadership): “Men can spring to life/ from stone,…/and it happened once when Stone Hand/ was born”
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Welcome to the PRL Serials, where you can read an episode rather than watch it, because that’s what’s hot in the streets right now.
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