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

Issue of October 23, 2004

7 articles in this issue.


Fever Dreams 018 by Sand Pilarski — Comic

Playing Dungeoness and Dragons.

Contests: Writers Digest by Gillespie and Queen — News

Two Writer's Digest competitions, one for short stories, and one for previously self-published novels. In-house, the Piker Press Ghost story competition wraps up this Wednesday.

Interview with a Makeup Artist by Alexandra Queen — News biography artist

Cover story. Interview with Vance Whitaker, professional theatrical makeup artist.

GGGL: NaNo Survial -- Research That Novel by Writer Gypsy — Op_ed

<b>Gypsy's Guide to Good Living</b>: A final word of advice on the upcoming National Novel Writing Month. A few tips on researching help you get the information you need from the internet quickly, without losing valuable time surfing.

Oort Cloud Oddities: Mohawk Mommy by Alexandra Queen — Op_ed

When a friend finds out she's going to undergo chemotherapy, Sand shaves her own head to show moral support. Hilarity ensues.

Anachronocity v8p3 by Josh Brown — Serial

Vol. 8 - Truth and the Goddess Arl - Part 3 <br> Despite Alex's best efforts to feel bad about murdering a man in a frenzy of uncontrolled rage, everyone around him keeps telling him he did the right thing. As he struggles to come to terms with these conflicting ideas, he finds a startling tidbit about the Goddess Arl.

The Rubiyaat of Ozzie 26 by Alexandra Queen — Serial fantasy humor

Osgun the half-orc thought he was having a bad day, but spending a little time with the lovely Minerva makes it hard to feel down. Partly because she's so wonderful, and partly because nobody does bad days worse than Minerva. Ranting ghosts, battling gods, strange monsters carrying her off... yeah, she wins the bad day contest hands down.

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