Manifesto Preview . . .

Issue 1 of Loquacious Placemat will feature our publication's manifesto. Fear not, we will not be too ostentatious about it and it will be the only editor produced content. It will run in the space where we hope to feature the manifestos and ravings of outside contributors on a monthly basis.

In response to some feedback received, we have decided to publish an excerpt from the LP Manifesto. It is our hope that this will address the concerns of some potential contributors out there while inspiring some of you to pen (and submit) manifestos of your own:

. . . We want to give literary fiction the power to ambush the public. We want our stories to be read by as broad a range of people as possible. If this means that it is read through a haze of cigarette smoke, gets splashed with coffee or stained with whiskey, then so much the better!

Our words can live long, healthy and quiet lives nestled away in the literary corners of the internet; they deserve to be lovingly bound in traditional journals and stored on the shelves of connoisseurs and academics. But, they need to get out every once in a while. We want to give the works published in Loquacious Placemat the opportunity to get tattered around the edges, folded in fourths and stuffed in someone's back pocket.

Loquacious Placemat is here to put strange words in front of those who would not otherwise seek them out. Online, we will be a concise and tidy journal. Out in the world, we will be something not so easily defined; something a little strange put out there with the hopes that our strangeness will rub off on the world. . . .

So there it is: a little taste of where our minds are at. Thoughts? Observations? Objections? Fears? Quandaries? Counter-Manifestos? Tell us all about it TwistedThistleProductions{at}gmail\dot/com.