Matt Getty: A writer to root for

By On August 30, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Uncategorized

There’s a tremendous amount of fiction out there to read. And the Internet has increased the number of outlets for publishing by an order of magnitude. One of these days I should count average out how many short stories I read a week. I write reviews of story collections for The Short Review (www.theshortreview.com), I am active at Zoetrope, an on-line work-shopping site, I read stories each week from two local writers groups, and now from my new friends from the 2009 Sewanee Writers Conference. Then there are the “published” stories I read in The New Yorker, Narrative, the Atlantic, and several other pubs.

Oddly enough, one of the best stories I ever read from a fellow “amateur” fiction writer was the one that followed mine in my first publication credit, Rainbow Curve (Issue 5, 2004), www.rainbowcurve.com . Matt Getty was the author. I’ve since been looking for and reading his stuff. The other day, I picked up a collection at the bookstore, Best of the Web 2009, or something like that, and I was sitting at a park bench taking a break from my bike ride here in the city of St. Louis and what do you know? Matt had a story in there! I had read the story at one of the on-line journals a while ago. Anyway, “When my girlfriend lost the weight” is a really, really good story. You can find Matt here. http://gettydrafts.blogspot.com/. Check him out. He also has music and videos. He’s a writer to watch. I’ve never met him but I have emailed him a few times. One day, I will like the fact that one of my stories shows up next to one of his. In the meantime, I’ll be looking  for a contact high.

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4 Responses to Matt Getty: A writer to root for

  1. Henry Kroll says:
    September 17, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    Its great to run across people every so oftern that use more than 5% of their brains. I like your style. I am a few decades older than you and had a great deal more water runder under my bridge–raised to familes, fished king crab in Alaska 25-years, caught million of pounds of salmon, crab, halibut and herring besides writing 12 books and starting my own publishing company. Crrently I am promotin my new phonebook-sized 8.5 by 11 book about how all the carbon resources were made not by light from the sun which soesn’t have enough power to keep us out of ice ages let alone pierce early earth 750 PSI atmospher to get life started but by light from the multiple star system Sirius A and B and Procyon A and B. These two solar mass objects are the only thing around us capable of making coal seams 100 feet thick and limestone 12,500 feet thick and all the oil around the world.

    PS I also play piano for senior centers and groups of 100 or more. After 50 years you can perform majic.

    Cosmological Ice Ages
    By Henry Kroll 384 pages 8.5 by 11; quality trade paperback (softcover); Catalog #08-0164; ISBN 1-4251-7062-5; US$31.35, C$31.35, EUR21.42, £16.19

    About the Book
    I plotted our sun’s course through space to discover that our sun was born in the constellation Orion. After the planets were formed Earth was covered with a five-mile-thick coating of ice one billion years. We eventually drifted near the Sirius multiple star system and little Sirius B (1.5 solar masses) grabbed hold of our sun putting it in orbit around Sirius A.
    Our sun does not have enough power to keep us out of the ice ages otherwise we wouldn’t have them! It was the additional light and heat from Sirius star system that melted the ice caps and got life started in the oceans.
    Earth is losing its atmosphere. During the rein of the dinosaurs the atmospheric pressure was around 30 pounds per square inch. Now it is down to 14.5 pounds per square inch. Before our sun was captured by the Sirius system earth had an atmosphere of 750 pounds per square inch. Over time and it was laid down as coal, oil and limestone using photosynthesis and light from these giant stars. We have a limited time to get our act together and get off the planet to seed life in other biospheres.
    http://www.GuardDogBooks.com
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    • jmakansi says:
      September 26, 2009 at 1:01 pm

      Henry:

      Thanks for visiting and the compliments. Your book sounds fascinating. And isn’t coincidental that the last day or two I was thinking maybe I’d try to get my writer buddies together to read short stories to the elderly at senior centers.

  2. Shannon says:
    November 19, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Wow, thanks for the tip about Matt. Love that I spent most of my morning reading his story (and your blog). Could never get the same effect from the news!
    Hope to seehearread more from both of you!

  3. Hank Kroll says:
    November 19, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Thanks for the alcolades.
    The book is about the acarris book of all time because it alters everyone’s way of thinking.
    Rand FlemAth, Charles Hapgood, Einstein and other explain how the Earth suddenly changed it rotational pole 23.5 degrees as acrustal slip where the crust of the Earth slipped over the liquid core.

    I think they were grasping at straws with this. There is one object up there in the sky with enough mass to shift the entire Earth 23.5 degrees. There was no Moon prior to 11,712 years ago. We did research on cave paintings and there is nothing except a chinese drawing of what kind of looks like a Moon 9000 years ago.

    If you don’t believe this then where are the Moon meteorites? They claim that they have only recovered 13.2 pounds of lunar meteorites. If the moon has been up there billions of years then we should be tripping over moon meteorites and building houses out of them.

    They have found more Mars meteorites on Earth than Moon metorites and Mars has more atmosphere, more gravity and is millions of lmiles further away so how is this possible?

    Something (the Moon) came in over Russia at 2 kilometers per second at an angel of 11 degrees, bounced of Earth killing all the tribes, camels, horses and mastodons in North America. I put the mass of the Earth 5.98E 24 kilograms, the mass of the Moon 7.35 E 22 kilograms and the above data into an impact calculato, Arizonaedu/impact effects. The data that came back was the Moon would depress the Earth’s crust 5 kilometers with a force of 700-terramegatons.

    The Arctic Ocean has a 5 kilometer deep spot on this end with an average depth of 1.3 kilometers and it is roughly circular matching 1/3 the Moon’s diameter. Scarry enough for you?

    That isn’t the scarry part. The whole project was engineered by Thoth who stold five days from the Moon. The year now has 365 and 1/4 days instead of 360–the same number as degrees in a circle.

    Earth had hugh ice caps very little arable land and the oceans were stagnent. It also lost 98% of its atmosphere from 750 PSI down to 14.5 PSI at sea level. The Moon was brought in to replenish the water and the atmosphere. Tilting Earth doubled arable land and doubled the productivity of the oceans because you now have sunlight striking more perpindicular to the Earth’s surface 1,800 miles further north and south.

    Bringing the old Moon in that is 20-billion years old extended the life of the planet a few extra thousand years to allow us to become conscious. However, we ar still killing each other over religion and carbon.

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