War Is Language : 101 Short Works (9781937316044) Read online

  Middle-aged divorced men need hookers for sex. But middle-aged divorced women need husbands-for-hire to drive them to the store for a few things and to make sure they get home okay.

  Just yesterday I gave my friend a bunch of shit about playing matchmaker with me. But it must have started me thinking and then here came your question, and—bam!—eureka moment. If you want to print up Rent-a-Husband flyers and hand them out in huge crowds like they do for lost pets, that's perfect. I figure that will be the most expeditious way to find both of us a nice quiet hourly guy who likes to read the paper in his slippers.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Thanks to my Facebook family for tolerant support during a lengthy exploration of warring language. Special individual thanks to Heather Dewar, Lucille Fridley, Gin Havard, Melody Layne, Tammy Servies, Brian Borre, Rayne DeVivo, Jim Gratner, Peter Hale, Jane Friedman, Reginald Gibbons, Audrey Niffennegger, Sandi Wisenberg, Miles Harvey, Aleksandar Hemon, Alan Larson, Navneet Gupta, Paul Mason, Roland LMKO Rydstrom, Terri Lee, Susan J Williams, Rob Cypher, Jenny Truppo, Crystal Neal, Sherrie Toigo, Pepper D. Smith Burkholder, Carla Sizemore, Mark Rayburn, Jamie Garcia, Guy Whitney, Todd Tue, Andrea LeVasseur, Josh Seib, Deva North, Justin North, Joe P. Said, Dorothea Duenow, Zach Duenow, Morgan Sorvillo, M.J. Sorvillo, Steve Gardiner, Sunshine Wolfe, Ed Norris, Amy Greenup, Lisa Fenner, Marna Swagert, Rod Hughes, Rebecca Huehls, Jason Hirsch, Maria Kubiak, Jennifer Wohlberg, Sam Veilleux, Mike Kasky, Virginia Wallace, Alex Philbrick, Anittah Patrick, Meg Canada Knodl, Darren Mast, Genevieve Jones, Dorothy Jones, and Andrew Groh.

  ABOUT THE ON IMPULSE EBOOK SERIES

  On Impulse Series Titles:

  The War is Language: 101 Short Works

  2000 Deciduous Trees: Memories of a Zine

  Love & Darts

  How to Cherish the Grief-Stricken

  *

  We each have an impulse to share our experience. These four collections of short works explore storytelling from catharsis to craft. Over the course of this series Nath Jones’s writing style develops from the raw, associative, tyrannic rambles of cathartic non-fiction, flash fiction, and rant in The War is Language and our digital domains, to the delightful rough-hewn vignettes of 2000 Deciduous Trees, into the compact characterizations of the fictionalized tellings in Love & Darts, and finally toward How to Cherish the Grief-Stricken‘s fully-crafted short stories that use literary devices and narrative elements to reveal a world well-rendered.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Nath Jones received an MFA in creative writing from Northwestern University where she was a nominee for the Best New American Voices 2010. Her publishing credits include PANK Magazine, There Are No Rules, The Battered Suitcase, and Sailing World. Her current e-book series, On Impulse, explores the spectrum of narrative from catharsis to craft. She lives and writes in Chicago.

  Connect with Nath online:

  Twitter

  Facebook

  Author Website