writing in search of the absurd

Our Creed: There are lots of writers of high-quality nonsense out there, all over the place.

Our Goal: To form a gang with those writers and take over the world.

Our Basic Style, in Two Words: Melancholic sarcasm.

Our Opponents: The everyday Joes and Janes who take themselves seriously; get paid money for writing on, and then filing, paper; and think that we're fools. Sometimes we are our own opponents. We don't like to talk about that part.

In Other Words:

Since we founded this journal in 2002, we here at The Raging Face have been doing our best to bring you absurd and clever-ish fiction, travel writing and commentary. More specifically, we publish flash fiction, short fiction, plays, sketches, essays and scribbled-on dinner napkins that describe the world as we see it: one in which inter-galactic warfare rages, hobos have the same social standing as preachers and, instead of going to work, you get to eat ham and cheese sandwiches all day, every day.

We believe that one of the reasons a lot of worthy off-center writing doesn't make it out into the open is that no one can really figure out what to do with it. Who can you get to edit it? How do you know when it's done? Would any real people publish this kind of stuff? We sure don't have all the answers, but we offer these pages both as a showcase for polished pieces and as a playground where writers can kick around works-in-progress.

Read more all over the site to learn more. If you're interested in submitting something to us, please click here. Thanks for stopping by.

We remain, as ever, your humble servants, etc.,

--M.C. Vaseline, and Martis Furthington, Co-Founders and Publishers