Sealed with Bright Runes

I know a charm:
it will save me if Malice
cuts dark runes on a sapling’s roots
with intent to harm;
it turns the spell;
the hater is harmed, not me.
Ponderous with plots,
the Wobble-Troll defeats
herself into nowhere: airless Niflheim.
Bright runes I know
which trolls know not,
nor might trolls ever mount to mind.
                   —Rígsþula

Pushcart Nominations

We have waited until The End of Days issue was published to announce these Shit Creek Review Pushcart nominations, though they were mailed off before the due date. Good luck to all concerned!


1. Philip Quinlan, 'The Pier at the End of the World'

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue15/content/the-pier-at-the-end-of-the-world/


2. Richard Epstein, 'Apocalypse Now'

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue15/content/apocalypse-now/


3. Kona Macphee, 'Wild Raspberries'

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue13/issue13index/wild-raspberries/


4. Simon Williams, ' A Zombie's Take On Walnuts'

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue15/content/a-zombies-take-on-walnuts/


5. Jonathan Kessler, 'The Octopus'

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue14/issue14index/the-octopus/


6. Journal Entry by R. Nemo Hill

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue13/issue13index/journal-entry/

Shit to Hit Fan Soon!

The Shit Creek Review End of Days is nigh! All textual content has been selected by the Five Editors of the Apocalypse, & quill’d in by your End-of-Days Scribe, Paulus Stevensis; proofed moreover by the various authors, & corrected accordingly. Editorials & such are written & inscribed. Art-Angel Patricia Jonsensis has fabricated excellent & mimetic images. Arch-Art-Angel Zirilli is putting his final magic touches to The Eschatological Look. “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven ...” But very SOON. For I have seen It in a dream ...

The Imminent End of Days

Dear Composers & Responders,

Angels flitting about in the rafters? Strange shafts of light, with pointing fingers on the end, piercing through the clouds? Seven-headed beasts slouching through the flower-beds? Children speaking in tongues? No beer left in the fridge? It must be the… End of Days!!!

Coming VERY soon in a Shit Creek Review near you!

Yours Apocalyptically &c.,

Paulus Stevensis,

End of Days Scribe

Shit Creek Apocalypse Now

The End of Days approaches and the shit is really starting to hit the fan now, as submissions open for the Apocalyptic 15th issue of the Shit Creek Review. Prepare for that freakish Creekish Rapture by carefully studying the Signs revealed here:

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue14...x/submissions/

Then follow those Revelations exactly.

It is written that submissions will close at midnight on October 2nd, or at the very moment when the world ends: whichever comes first. May the Creek be with you.