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

Issue of October 16, 2004

7 articles in this issue.


Contests: SPS Poetry Cards, Ghost Stories by Gillespie and Queen — News

Good at expressing emotion? Try your hand at writing a poetic greeting card for SPS Studios. In house contests continue to run.

The Perfect Story 02 by Tedi Trindle — Nonfiction

Plotting: Theme, Climax, Denouement. What makes "The Pirates of the Caribbean" such an excellent story? We continue to break down the elements and analyze just what makes a blockbuster so good.

GGGL: NaNo Survival -- Family harmony how-to by Writer Gypsy — Op_ed

So you've decided to participate in NaNoWriMo and write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days! But as nice as it may sound, the odds of wrangling a month of no housework, no day job, no school and no interruptions is not part of the package. So how <i>will</i> you get it all done?

Oort Cloud Oddities: Clerihews by Alexandra Queen — Op_ed

Who appreciates fine poetry any more? Your family definitely won't. Compromise with Clerihews: lose the "fine" and replace it with "fast" and "funny".

Seed of HOPE by Jeff Vierra — Poem

Poem.

the dream by Lydia Manx — Poem

Poem

The Rubiyaat of Ozzie 24 by Alexandra Queen — Serial fantasy humor

A new land and a new life are almost in sight for Osgun the half-orc and his small-time associate, Riordan. But speculating on the future shows only that little people have big dreams, and big people don't dare to dream at all.

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