Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
March 16, 2026

Issue of October 9, 2004

11 articles in this issue.


Fever Dreams 017 by Sand Pilarski — Comic

Little Red Riding Hood hires Nunzio to be her new best friend.

That's Life 19 by John Queen — Comics

That's Life switches to a liberal mainstream style of journalism.

Contests: L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future, Ghost Stories by Gillespie and Queen — News

L. Ron Hubbard is looking for the next big sci-fi, fantasy, or horror author, while several in-house contests continue to run.

GGGL: NaNo survival -- Feeding the troops by Writer Gypsy — Op_ed

<b>Gypsy's Guide to Good Living:</b> How to make sure everyone eats when you're busy writing 50k words in 30 days for National Novel Writing Month.

Oort Cloud Oddities: Learning Poetry by Alexandra Queen — Op_ed

Poetry should rhyme. It's the law, and anyone who says otherwise is a pinko communist.

The Perfect Story 01 by Tedi Trindle — Op_ed

Was the "Pirates of the Caribbean" a perfect tale? Analyze the elements to see what made this story such a success. Nonfiction,

Mist by Patrick Devine — Poem

Poem.

Shards of hollow glass by Lydia Manx — Poem

Poem.

The Rubiyaat of Ozzie 23 by Alexandra Queen — Serial fantasy humor

The caravan guards are rude to him. His partner-in-crime is rude to him. And every time he opens his mouth, nothing but ill luck comes of it. Life is never easy for a half-orc, but Osgun isn't too worried about it. Sooner or later there will be heads to crack open.

Cherylness by Sand Pilarski — Short

It's the story of a murder story, gruesome, sordid and inexplicably based in Des Moines. Again. An entry in the "Write Fiction Like Cheryl" contest, wherein the goal was to write a tale like assistant editor Cheryl Haimann would if Cheryl ever wrote fiction. Which she doesn't. And after reading this selection, we may just know why.

The Book by Kevin Landis — Short story fiction

Cover story.

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