Monday, February 18, 2013

Joseph Chinnock Short Fiction Officially Published!

We wanted to make you aware of two short stories that explore the dark side of love, revenge and redemption, both by Joseph Chinnock.

Legally Ted is the story of a parole who is just barely able to keep his cool until he meets Ted in a Group and has to contend with guilt, despair,  regret, rage, Clock-work Orange-like treatment systems, retro-reunion revival bands, the profound differences between Styx and Journey and his own diminishing hopes for redemption.
Published in the spring 2013 issue of The Gettysburg Review
Grinding Machines is the story of a desperate man offered a chance at freedom through the retelling, by a cagy Gurkha, of the conversion of the great Tibetan saint Milarepa though in a decidedly modern way. The protagonist must choose his path as they discuss scorpions, the Pinkertons, black magic, revenge, sexual politics, pension plans, the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and the recursive nature of revenge over cheap whiskey and Bollywood movies.
An online version is available at http://thedirtynapkin.com/issue/054/03/

Joseph Chinnock is the director of A Writers’ Collective, a consortium of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates. Grinding Machines is an excerpt from his most recent book, The Alchemy of Nourishment, the story of a post-Catholic, B minus Buddhist who joins a cooking class in the new-age Mecca of Boulder. The class is put on by a charismatic Wise-Woman with a dark past, and her precocious teenage daughter, resulting in a love triangle that explores the very limits of hunger, food, love, betrayal, madness, revenge, Clock–Work Orange-like programs, organized resistance to such programs and ultimately—redemption. His next project is about a Hindu Sherlock Holmes, a Brahmin postal worker in the British Raj who uses Hindu logic to solve crimes. In his free time Joseph writes, reads, broods, drinks way too much coffee and listens to New Order. 


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