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Archive for January, 2008

Well, can you believe that it’s been nearly a month since Dog Versus Sandwich launched?
If not, why not? How cynical, gentle reader, of you to suspect the very calendars on which our lives are predicated. If time is taken away from us, what do we have left… what do we have left?
Perhaps this poem will [...]

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This week’s story. Enjoy!
fennywompus.pdf
 
 

Fennywompus: A Modern Fable
Faith Gardner

 
An unemployed man sat watching soap operas on his sofa.  He heard a knock on his door and answered it.  Standing about three feet tall on his doorstep was a magical stork.  The magical stork’s name was Fennywompus, as his nametag indicated.  He was decorated with rainbow feathers.

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Submissions

Went through the submissions database today. After the initial flurry of submissions, we’ve settled down in December and January to an average submission rate of one story per day.
This means that your chances of being accepted are one in seven. Not too shabby!
So keep those stories coming.
I have to say, too, that updating the DvS [...]

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Welcome, young sapling, to the second week of Dog Versus Sandwich. This week’s story was vat-grown by eccentric scientists weak from hunger after a gruelling sack race. I think the results were wonderful!
Why Do They Dance? pdf version 
 
 
Why Do They Dance?
by Patricia Russo
 
 
 
They are little men, no more than a foot and a half tall. Maybe [...]

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Welcome to the first beginning opening start of Dog Versus Sandwich. I can only assume that future generations will conduct a fitting tribute to this moment, and so I won’t bother. Thank you, reader-creature, for joining me on this exciting and hopefully condiment-filled journey.
Below this introduction lurks (in a sinister manner) our first story. You can either click [...]

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I know, I know… fear not, my humble colleagues. For in a couple of short (or long, if you’re in Antarctica) days the first issue of Dog Versus Sandwich will “go live”, as they say in the entertainments on Queen Street.
I’ve been very happy with the quality of submissions I’ve received. There are numerous mags [...]

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