Often, as I am crossing the street to buy a hot bun, people on fixed-gear bikes will screech to a halt in front of me and spray me with pebbles from their wheel-wells. They will snap a finger at me and shout:

"MIRACLE JONES! I LOVE THE FICTION CIRCUS, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GIVE YOU PEOPLE MONEY. EVERYTHING YOU DO IS FREE, YOU ASSHOLES."



Sometimes, if I am really in a hurry, I will keep walking, but other times, I will nod gravely, gently pull them over to an alley behind a Fantastic Sams, and scrawl this website down on their forearm:

http://www.cafepress.com/fictioncircus

A website which contains this, among other things:



The value on these t-shirts simply can't be beat, and the Fiction Circus is obscure enough that if you wear them in your hometown you will look like you belong to some kind of punk band or hell-cult. No one will know that you are addicted to a fiction magazine on the internet.

If you are in college, you should buy one of our posters, because your Salvador Dali print or blown-up photograph of the Hindenburg disaster will be something that you think back on in your life with regret and malice.

Note: everything on this list is marked-up about the same rate, so whatever you buy helps us out. soon, we will be selling actual fiction from this website, along with actual prints of show-posters and other printed material, so stick around, stick around.

Posted by miracle on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:49:53 -0400 -- permanent link