Welcome to the new face of Double Dare Press, an online literary ezine.
We started the magazine in 2000 as a monthly. In 2002, the magazine became a quarterly. In celebration of our seven-year itch, we have a new layout and design. The intent is to become industry standard, and this new layout will allow readers to read and react to the issue immediately.
Our original intention was to connect artists and thinkers around the planet. This interactive design will facilitate that larger conversation we want to participate in regarding the state of art making in the world.
We hope to be a place where artists are encouraged and supported, and to that end, we hope that any criticism be the type that seeks to nurture and not destroy.
Sent to take dictation from God: Writer Obits
On April 11th, my hero died.
Kurt Vonnegut’s words made me want to be a writer with all my heart. His ease and candor on the page assured me that it might not actually be completely impossible to be one. He was my Shakespeare. His death marks the passage of a truly great American thinker and essence. I was always so happy just knowing he was alive. Continue reading ‘Sent to take dictation from God: Writer Obits’
Destination Nowhere by Rebecca Haven
He picked me up outside of Lodi, just off of 71, on his way to the turnpike. What he was doing driving through there, I don’t know. I didn’t really care. I just wanted to get out of town.
Continue reading ‘Destination Nowhere by Rebecca Haven’
A Sad State of Affairs by Sam Vargo
Calvin’s blubber hung out all over the place, making for the appearance of a very large jellyfish caught up in the steaming hot jets of white water. He looked like Big Bubba Brother sunk inside a pool of little bubble brothers. Pale as foamy water, suds rose in popping platoons around him. It was a wretched, ridiculous sight. “The water’s hot,” Calvin C. Clean complained. Continue reading ‘A Sad State of Affairs by Sam Vargo’
Gas and Water by DeAnn Lancashire
October 1993 Tulare, California
I have to walk carefully. I don’t want to spill. I am carrying a battered black canning pot full of scalding water. The weight of it strains my neck and shoulders as I hold it at arm’s length. Continue reading ‘Gas and Water by DeAnn Lancashire’
Ascension Manifest by Chuck Endsley
We laugh and cry and sleep and eat and puke and shit and watch TV and make phone calls and some of us read and some of us don’t and sometimes we fuck and sometimes we fuck ourselves and then we cry some more and we drive our cars to work and back and work and back and work and back and the whole time I’m cowering in the corner of my bedroom, an infant, a child, terrified of the world and what it means to be alone in it, and every deity, real or imagined laughs at the cosmic joke, while my shell accomplishes great feats of strength and wit and earns a paycheck Continue reading ‘Ascension Manifest by Chuck Endsley’
Sam Roloff
A Life, In Brief
A quick glance at Sam Roloff’s life suggests an adventure as varied and as colorful as the canvases he has created.
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Roloff graduated with honors from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. His paintings ran in numerous galleries and shows in San Francisco in the early nineties, including the renowned Luggage Store Gallery. During this time, Roloff witnessed the birth of the Mission School art movement. Continue reading ‘Featured Artist - Sam Roloff’
Recently, in an attempt to punish myself for not getting Double Dare Press new software mastered and having an ancient issue posted, I gave up tabloids. Continue reading ‘A Britney-Free Diet’
by Mary McDunn
My love for northern Minnesota began many years ago. When I was a young girl, many summer vacations included a 2-3 week family camping trip to the BWCA (Boundary Water Canoe Area). Getting ready was a big part of the process; we had to pack absolutely everything that we might need. Continue reading ‘Northern Narratives’
Nixon was great
I recently discovered something that all American citizens need to hear and fully understand. Richard Nixon was great. Definitions are important and so I will say that you must agree to this caveat. Great people, according to me, can swear well (professional swearers are in my book “great”). Continue reading ‘Humor’
We’re Baaack…Best and Worst of 2007
