GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Issue 1

Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine #1

by Sue Miller (Editor), Rusty Barnes, Matt Bell

Issue 1 comes to life with Darby Larson's "Electroencephalography" where an experiment in robot-building goes terribly awry. And if you've ever woken up with an unexpected physical deformity--say, an arrow in your heart--you'll truly enjoy the next story. There's also a smattering of flash fiction and psychedelia; a straight-out story where things aren't what they seem, poetry that takes you from the perverse to the sublime, some magic realism, science fiction, and a few letters to another species thrown in for good measure. We haven't forgotten those of you with a literary bent. In addition, the artwork in this issue is particularly strong, with oil paintings, watercolors, photography, and photo illustrations complementing the words with which they are paired. Please let us know what you think of Issue 1, and thanks for reading GUD.

Comprising:

Stories

Electroencephalography by Darby Larson;
Arrow by Nadine Darling;
Drive Thru by Kenneth Darling;
Hello Goodbye by Lavie Tidhar;
Aliens by Jordan E. Rosenfeld;
Not In The Yellow Pages by Lesley C. Weston;
Natural History by Gini Hamilton;
Unzipped by Steven J Dines;
Max Velocity by Leslie Claire Walker;
The Illiterate Sky by David Lenson;
In the Dark by Sean Melican;
Fear not Heaven's Fire by Jaine Fenn;
Experiment: Love by Brian Conn;
Anything by Matt D Bell;
Women of the Doll by Nisi Shawl;
The Gods of Houston by Rebekah Frumkin;
Item 27 by Mike Procter;
Jimmy's Luck by Tammy R. Kitchen.

Poetry

The Intrigue of Being Watched by Rusty Barnes;
really nice on drugs by Timothy Gager;
your personal ground zero (to franz wright) by Timothy Gager;
moving boxes by Timothy Gager;
Hunting Season by Rusty Barnes;
The Banker Calls for Three Martinis and a Pipe by Cami Park;
Sisyphus of the Staircase by Cami Park;
A Doorbell by Kenneth L Clark;
In Defense Of The Boll-Weevil by Kenneth L Clark;
Catholic Girls by Kenneth L Clark.

Report

Mad Dogs by Christian A. Dumais.

Art

An Bradán Feasa (The Salmon of Knowledge) by Oisín Mac Suibhne (cover);
Charging The Inspiration by Cameron Gray;
The Prophet -- eyes detail by Ilona Taube;
Spring by Magali Cadieux;
the trial by Christopher S. Cosco;
Growth by Caleb Morgan;
Steps To Darkened Ends by Ali Al Saeed;
The Prophet -- two figures by Ilona Taube;
torso twenty-one by Christopher S. Cosco.

200 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 6, 2007

About the author

Sue Miller lives in Connecticut with an assortment of goldfish. She's layout editor for GUD Magazine and instigated Issue 1. She has been an editor for Night Train, Story Garden 6, and NFG. Having a very short attention span, she's a fan of flash fiction. Sue spends her time circumnavigating the globe and dropping in on the unsuspecting. Learn more about her at her website. Etc.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Reviews

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

eclectic and lovely. and I helped copy-edit it. :) particular favorites: stories from darling, tidhar, hamilton, conn, shawl, and procter; nonfiction from dumais. (and dumais was particularly fun to edit. not that that influences my recommendations.)

[Liviu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great issue