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SKUNK'S LIFE
An Odoriferous Muse of . . .
Skunk's Life is strictly a paper publication. They publish short stories, humor, essays, articles about travel, health, lifestyles or anything that can hold editor DB Pedlar's attention. And your writing does not necessarily have to be about skunks!
Skunk’s Life #22 looking for stories, articles, or humor about Recycling. Keep in mind,
the skunk’s idea of recycling may cover anything from reincarnation, twice baked potatoes to the actual task of separating plastic, paper, and metal. Send submissions (no attachments please) to DB Pedlar.
Payment at this time is one copy of the issue that your writing appears in and $6 on publication. All rights return to the author.
Upcoming special issue of the skunks: Playing
With the Band. Do you like to read other people’s
mail? It will be an opportunity to read a few
letters between DB Pedlar and New York City
musicians.
Payment at this time is one copy of the issue that your writing appears in and $6 on publication. All rights return to the author.
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Previous issues of Skunk's Life have included:
- Fiction by Dolores Hulse, DB Pedlar and Meghan Kelly
- Articles about unusual clubs worldwide, including the Pez Pals Club, The National Privy
Diggers Association and the Sugar Packet Collector's Club (yes, really!)
- Monthly column "Quiz A Nurse" where readers as the Nurse their most heartfelt questions. .
.or just some fun humor.
- Satires, essays and true life adventures -- many with a humorous twist to them, some deadly serious
- Restaurant Reviews nationwide
Currently in Skunk's Life:
Issue No 22
Guin the Shiba hangs out with one of the skunks from Skunk's Life
Illustrations by Davida Brier
Edited by Carol Cinnamon
Fiction, including:
- Time Flyer
A Bundle of Sorrow
At first my assignment to travel back
to 1785 and sleep with women and then
write it up for a time travel vacation package
gave me a sexual charge. Since it wasn’t my
money involved I looked forward to the dating
ritual of wining and dining a women to get her
into bed. Plus, I was required to kiss and tell.
There was nothing but problems with this
sleep-over vacation package back in time.
The trip requires the vacation to be in New
England or Pennsylvania during the winter
months, who in their right mind would travel
to a cold, snowy climate on a vacation?
- Musty & Dusty Book Chat
Reviews of 15 books from February 1943 Book Club. Several of the books are still available today, article includes what the book cost in 1943 to purchase and the value of the book in the current market.
- Antiquity of Modern Romance
A brief look at the rituals/traditions from courting to
cutting the wedding cake.
The first kiss, how nerve wracking and
eventually sweet. Greek poets describe the
kiss as “the key to Paradise”. It used to be
that the Japanese never kissed with the
exception of parents kissing their children.
- The Nurse returns with a new column:
Hypochondriac Symposium
If you are throwing a party, limit the guest
list to one hypochondriac. If the guest
gets out of line (whining and carrying on
about their latest symptom or illness),
suggestions on how to tone down their
whining or to get them to leave the party
on their own.
- A Tye Chesterman Adventure:
A Well-Rounded Date
Tye loves anything to do with peaches -
Jell-o, shampoo, car freshners, etc. and
he loves overweight women.
- Canterbury’s Tails by Kiel Stuart
A fantasy adventure of a man and his
mail-order magic shirt.
As he pushed the money at her and took
The Package, a tingle raced from the box
to his hands. He dashed to his room. The
box came open at a touch. A new catalog
lay on top; James hurriedly thrust it in a back
pocket and drew out The Shirt. It was wrapped
in silver tissue. None of those stupid pins to pull
out; the shirt just undid itself, like it was stretching
after a nap. The steel-blue silk felt alive under his
fingers.
- PLUS - Plenty of filler to tease anyone’s apetite for useless
information about courting and romance.
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The zine is available at bookstories in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Mexico and via snail mail
through the publisher, but money received from sales goes back into paying the writers first. Any money leftover pays for supplies and publishing costs. Carol, the Nurse, and editor DB Pedlar work for free.
"Hey," Pedlar says, "I am a writer, not a businessperson, what can I say?"
Pedlar does try to be writer-friendly. Instead of outright rejecting a manuscript he thinks has potential, Pedlar will gladly offer suggestions, ask questions and sometimes even rewrite it a
little to show what he means. This is all for the simple purpose of helping the writer get
published. On the occasions Pedlar does help rewrite, he gives his help freely, with no conditions attached. It remains the author's work and their byline, and Pedlar makes no claims on their work.
"My goal from the very beginning," Pedlar explains, "was and still is to give writers a place to get published, gain confidence and to believe in themselves. Plus it's a market for seasoned writers to cultivate new readers. I occasionally reprint stories from other publications (with writers permission and if they own the rights, of course). I really like to help them find new readers. I have stories I found on the web and searched down the writers to get their permission. Hey, you can't beat having your story published on the web and then turn around and get paid for it by appearing in Skunk's Life!!"
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If anyone lives near Quimby's in Chicago, Illinois - Kent, Ohio - or Erie, PA, the "skunks" can
be purchased in stores for $1.50. The rest are sold through the mail by contacting DB Pedlar,
Skunk's Life, 25727 Cherry Hill Road, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403 or e-mail DB Pedlar.
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