The quality zine of absurdist and outsider fiction.
Archive
Hello and welcome to the Air in the Paragraph Line archive. This contains free online copies of each issue of the zine.
Current Issues
These are books published by Lulu press, with a color cover and perfect binding.
- Issue 12 - this issue's theme is "Weird, Paranoid, Insane". It
contains fact and fiction by Grant Bailie, Keith Buckley, Tony
Byrer, Joshua Citrak, Kurt Eisenlohr, Rebel Star Hobson, Stephen
Huffman, Jon Konrath, R. Lee, Dege Legg, Erin O'Brien, John
Sheppard, Joseph Suglia, Todd Taylor, and Richard K. Weems. It also
includes a cover and lots of interior art by Matt Pazzol. 236
pages, (pdf 2.2M)
- Issue 11 - The "work" issue - our first themed issue, with fact and
fiction about employment (or lack thereof) by Tony Byrer, Joshua
Citrak, Mike Daily, Kurt Eisenlohr, Nile577, Josh Hamilton, M. David
Hornbuckle, Robert W. Howington, Stephen Huffman, mj klein, Jon
Konrath, Dege Legg, Sarah Katherine Lewis, Vijay Prozak, Lisbeth
Pedersen, John Sheppard, Motel Todd, Julie Wiskirchen, and Sergeant
Zeno. 238 pages. (pdf 1.2M)
- Issue 10 - Fact and fiction by Tim Gager, John Sheppard, Robert Howington, Julie Wiskirchen, Jon Konrath, Todd Taylor, Bradley Sands, Josh Hamilton, Larry Falli, Melpomene Whitehead, Vijay Prozak, Hippy Steve Huffman, and Sgt. Zeno. It's 166 pages, 6x9" with a perfect bound spine and color cover, and contains 14 great stories and absolutely no crappy music reviews. (pdf - 705K)
Second Gen
Digest-sized booklet issues with writing from lots of others besides just me. The following include textfiles of the articles in each issue. Since the text versions don't have layout or pretty pictures, they're not as good as the real thing, but they're easier to read. There are also PDF versions. Note that I didn't have some fonts, so some PDF text looks slightly different than the originals. #8 and #9 PDF are paginated weird because that's how I got the double-sided books. If you want to print them, print just the odd pages, then load the copies back in the printer face-up and print the even pages in reverse order. Trust me, it's a pretty cool hack, but it makes things weird to read on-screen.
- Issue 9 - Fact and fiction by Jon
Konrath, Ray Miller, Larry Falli, Greggory Moore, Laura Barcella,
Jennifer Wagner, Chicago Basil, Derek Raugh, Daniel Crocker, SiD, and
J. W. Fail, including three dream journals and tales about drunken
parties, the Chicago Cubs, a war against Iraq, walking home drunk,
virtual reality, space stations, how to fly, useless legal advice,
Satanic music, and tales from Seattle, Chicago, Florida, East
Memphis, Amherst, Fullerton, Eugene, Pittsburgh, and more. (html/text) (pdf - 430K)
- Issue 8 - Jello Biafra Interview; Fact and Fiction by Jon Konrath, Ray Miller, Larry Falli, Robert W. `The Loser' Howington, Steve Johnson, and J. W. Fail, including tales about life, death, drugs, alcohol, women, no money, depression, hitchhiking, mania, insanity, loud music, Houston, Pittsburgh, Seattle, the future, the past, Indian food, Nuclear Winter, and more. (html/text) (pdf - 547K)
The Newsletters
These were monthly issues that were small, frequent, and designed to be mailed with one stamp.
Various Apocrypha
Various attempts at hanging on without going on hiatus, which I did after #5. These suck, and you really don't want to read them, but I'm being a completist here.