How to find my latest published piece, "It's a New Year," in Right Hand Pointing #140

 I've decided to start submitting again, so I picked an old favorite Right Hand Pointing who has gratefully published me ten times in the past. This is the first time I've been included since 2017.  I wish some other old favorites were still around, such as Night Train, The Legendary, In Between Altered States were still around, as they liked my work as well. 

    So RHP started in 2004, and it turned 16. Dale Wisely points out that some of the writers included in this issue were born in that decade, so it makes one think of aging, and journals dying.

    RHP is like an old friend, and through the years they have changed the way to browse the magazine. My new flash piece, "It's a New Year," (written before the pandemic so that phrase has nothing to do with 2020), is at the bottom of their issue, the bottom of their scroll. My advice is to read the whole issue and get to mine, but if I wish to self-promote, and you just wish to read, "It's a New Year," open www.righthandpointing.net  and go to issue #140, themed 'distant dark.' 

Then use the search/find tool, which you can do using your keyboard and hitting Ctrl + F

A little search box will appear on your screen, so type my last name 'Gager' in that box

Then next to my name are 'up' and 'down' arrows. Click the down arrow until the story comes up. Right Hand Pointing is all about arrows, and hands pointing, and directional flow, so this should all be very logical. 

And there you should have it....

Oh, before I forget, the story behind this story is based on staying home (ha! Imagine that) on New Year's Eve, and participating in a midnight phone call with an exe...with bad reception (double meaning intentional)

Snowflakes in a Blizzard features Grand Slams in their "Replay" series.

 ...which is much better than "Where are they now?"

Here is their link, but it looks and reads  like this

First TuesdayAugust 11    Snowflakes in a Blizzard Replay, 

This feature has a two-fold purpose: 1. To allow those recently added to our followers list to discover books they might have missed and 2. To make sure previously featured authors and their work aren’t forgotten. If you’d like to learn more about any of the books revisited here, simply click on the “Authors” page, then on that author’s name.

“GRAND SLAMS,” BY TIMOTHY GAGER

Writes one reviewer: “The first thing one notices in Timothy Gager’s Grand Slam: A Coming of Eggs Story is the Holden Caulfield-like anti-hero protagonist Woody. There is an ensemble of characters in the novel who make up the staff and management at a chain diner, Grand Slams, and Gager deftly weaves their backstories and inner lives into the fast-paced narrative. (Mignon Ariel King).

And another: “Having worked in a restaurant very similar to Grand Slams, I love how Mr. Gager captures the lives of those poor, struggling souls, floundering along in a nothing job yet trying to find some meaning. Mr. Gager gives us characters we come to care about, and he brings them to life with sparkling dialogue that is at once witty, engaging, and even poignant. You will laugh, enjoy, and become absorbed in this story about every day people and the stories that bond them.”

Throughout the novel, the almost-adults keep the momentum going in the midst of the socially odd and borderline tragic, invested adults. How will this trio grow up while surrounded by infantile, base, or simply lost adults? The reader is invested by the third chapter in finding out.

2020 Boston Poetry Marathon, 3 days, 150 poets, 5 minutes at a time

Honored to be asked to read on Thursday night at 8:10 PM. The smarties running this are simulcasting on Facebook, Twitter / Periscope and YouTube! (You don't have to log into Zoom or anywhere, just go to those platforms you have an account)  Below you'll find the list and there are some great poets here, and some I'm looking forward to hearing for the first time. 

Even though I'm listing the poets/schedule below, and the links above, their website at https://bostonpoetrymarathon.wordpress.com/ Also there is a way you can donate or contribute to their fundraiser.

Thursday – START

700 – Kelly DuMar
705 – Joy Ladin
710 – Donald Wellman
715 – Petaluma Vale
720 – Elizabeth Guthrie
725 – Ellen Steinbaum
730 – Catherine Morocco
735 – Abe Ross
740 – Susana Gardner

BREAK

800 – Dick Lourie
805 – MP Carver
810 – Timothy Gager
815 – Gale Batchelder
820 – Jack Miller
825 – Filip Marinovich
830 – Bridget Eileen
835 – Amy Alvarez
840 – Christine Tierney

BREAK

900 – Christina Liu
905 – Olivia Thomes
910 – Shira Dentz
915 – Thom Donovan
925 – Dorothea Lasky
930 – Sumita Chakraborty
935 – Ethel Rackin
940 – Natalie Shapero

End of Thursday

Friday – START

700 – Ruth Lepson
708 – Daniel Bouchard
716 – Jim Behrle
724 – Amanda Cook
732 – James Cook
740 – Carol Weston

BREAK

800 – Lee Ann Brown
808 – Tony Torn
816 – Jim Dunn
824 – Joanna Fuhrman
832 – Tom Daley
840 – David Kirschenbaum

BREAK

900 – Andrew K. Peterson
908 – Jordan Davis
916 – Maria Damon
924 – Mark Lamoureux
932 – Aaron Kiely
940 – Douglas Rothschild

BREAK

1000 – Joseph Lease
1008 – Donna de la Perriere
1016 – Christina Strong
1024 – Mitch Manning
1032 – Sean Cole

End of Friday night

Saturday – START
1200 – Chad Parenteau
1205 – Keith Jones
1210 – Alyssa Mazzarella
1215 – Steven Riel
1220 – Annie Won
1225 – Arielle Guy
1230 – Lisa DeSiro
1235 – Heather Treseler
1240 – Richard Hoffman

BREAK

100 – Darren Black
105 – Shari Caplan
110 – Clay Ventre
115 – Sawako Nakayasu
120 – Melissa Christine Goodrum
125 – Jennifer Martelli
130 – Martha Collins
135 – Cat Dossett
140 – Simeon Berry

BREAK

200 – David Miller
205 – Jessica Bozek
210 – Pam Matz
215 – Erica Kaufman
220 – Jessica de Konick
225 – Cheryl Boyce Taylor
230 – Kenning JP Garcia
235 – Vanesa Pacheco
240 – Corey Howard
245 – Ariella Ruth

BREAK

300 – Amanda Hope
305 – Josette Akresh-Gonzales
310 – Cynthia Bargar
315 – Kythe Heller
320 – Kazim Ali
325 – Mark Pawlak
330 – Fred Marchant
335 – Zachary Bos
340 – Alexis Bhagat
345 – Mairead Byrne

BREAK

400 – James Stotts
405 – Lloyd Schwartz
410 – Amy Lawless
415 – Mary Bonina
420 – Martha McCollough
425 – Dennis Nurkse
430 – Heather Hughes
435 – Christine Jones
440 – January O’Neil
445 – Kimberly Lyons

BREAK

500 – Joey Gould
505 – Sarah Pearlstein
510 – Philip Hasouris
515 – Eileen Cleary
520 – Danielle Legros Georges
525 – Robert Gamble
530 – Heidi Lynn Staples
535 – Lewis Freedman
540 – Nada Gordon

BREAK

600 – Carla Schwartz
605 – Stevie Subrizi
610 – Marianne Shaneen
615 – Oni Buchanan
620 – Elizabeth Marie Young
625 – Serina Gousby
630 – Lori Lubeski
635 – Alifair Skebe
640 – Jean Dany Joachim
645 – Eileen Myles

BREAK

700 – Christie Towers
705 – Adeena Karasick
710 – Valerie Loveland
715 – Eliza Jerrett
720 – Sam Cha
725 – Ben Friedlander
730 – David Blair
735 – Kevin Gallagher
740 – Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
745 – Brenda Iijima

BREAK

800 – Kacy Victoria Fallon
805 – Michael Peters
810 – Joe Elliot
815 – Lauren Russell
820 – Michael Gottlieb
825 – Brendan Lorber
830 – Charlotte Seley
835 – Judson Evans
840 – Marci Mehta Lucia
845 – Suzanne Mercury

BREAK

900 – Marcella Durand
905 – Jose Reyes
910 – Jack Kimball
915 – Kristin Garth
920 – Jenni Grassl
925 – Gilmore Tamny