"Pocket Finger" by Ryan and Christy Call

Publishing Genius does these pretty great PDF chapbooks and the newest is "Pocket Finger" by Hobart 8 contributor Ryan Call, with art by his sis, Christy. I'm not even sure what exactly to say about it other than the presentation, between art and text is beautiful and the writing kicked my ass and reminded me of everything that I love about the little of Ryan's work that I've read. It includes my newest favorite sentence:

Years later, after all of this had happened, I began to understand her words, why a worm will wrap itself aroundthe same hook that stabs its body, why a fish will inhale fully a barbed lure.

-aaron

p.s. I am currently at school, on a web browser to old to let me link to the PDF all fancy style here in this post, so you'll just have to go to the PG site and find the story yourself for now. Sorry. I wish I could hint at how awesome it looks...

Comments

[Adam R]

Thanks Aaron, your comments are much appreciated.

[Jensen]

I've been geeking out all over this since it came out. so great. I hadn't -- I'm sad to say -- heard of publishing genius before now. But now I feel happy. Good work, Ryan, Christy and Adam!

[ryan call]

thank you jensen. we're happy you liked it