Various Authors

Getting Old Various Authors

Publisher Marketing: Getting Old is a worthy goal and one that evolves over years of searching, sacrifice, and maybe even satisfaction. In this fresh and revealing collection, a range of authentic voices ponder the ravages of the body, familial duty, love, grief, and mortality. This anthology includes nuanced short stories, lyrical poetry, and humorous essays. Contributing authors are Bruce Alford, Barry Antokoletz, Judith Arcana, Anthony Bain, Susanne Braham, Kevin Carey, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, J. L. Cooper, Douglas K. Currier, Bill Cushing, Diana Decker, Liz Dolan, Falconhead, Adam Fisher, Alan D. Harris, Sarah Henry, Art Heifetz, Lynn Hoffman, Ann Howells, Dustin Hyman, Jennifer Lagier, Nancy Smiler Levinson, Amanda Lewan, Carol D. Marsh, Sandy McPheron, Ed Meek, Siena Milia, Carol Murphy, Wolfgang Niesielski, Lu Pierro, Niles Reddick, John G. Rodwan Jr., Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, Mark Antony Rossi, Carol Smallwood, Carol Graf Snyder, Lisa Solod, Patty Somlo, Margaret Stawowy, Keith Stewart, Meneese Wall, Clifford Wieck, Sarah Brown Weitzman, Anne Harding Woodworth, and Changming Yuan. The reviews are in: Many of us avoid discussing, or even thinking about, aging as a possibility. However, there comes a time when the harsh realities of life make pulling your head out of the sand a necessity, and my experience has been that it's not all doom and gloom. "Getting Old" is an absolutely delightful collection of over sixty written works about aging that are both varied and engaging. Some poetry, some short stories. Some comedic, others reminiscent. What they all have in common are a heartfelt look at a phenomenon that we all go through, if we are lucky. I have a parent that I have recently had to put into a facility and this read touched me deeply. Very well done. -- Tricia A. At times beautiful, funny, sad, and brutal, this eclectic anthology is at all times honest. Each of the writers, in their own way, faces the topic of aging with whatever grace they can muster. The result is a touching book about the elderly and those who care for them in their final years. Getting Old is a collection of poetry and prose, with something for everyone. -- Kimberly Schimmel, MLS Contributor Bio:  Authors, Various Nickolaus Pacione (b. August 3, 1976, Nickolaus Albert Pacione, Elk Grove Village, Illinois, ) is the author of 7 books and edited nine anthologies; working to get them all back in circulation. This will be the fifth issue of the magazine has he got this in the hands of Tourniquet's Ted Kirkpatrick along with both namesakes as their lulu.com incarnations after realizing he was connected to his modern era friends in Chicago. Pacione thought, "Ted said he was eventually going to grab these it would feel wrong that he bought these because he had a hand discovering me. Eventually becoming published." Issue Five is noted for the Edgar Allan Poe quote on the back cover because it forfilled The Stylus a journal that Edgar Allan Poe was developing before his death. Pacione's editorship is Lake Fossil Press and became an apprentice editor learning from Bob Gunner of Cyber-Pulp Books, Robert Raven of Litrix Library in Anchorage, Alaska, Ron Hanna of Wild Cat books (who was fiction publisher number 2 with his second anthology appearance -- Pacione inherited the living roster from Wild Cat Books as his contributors for Tabloid Purposes II, Quakes and Storms, Tabloid Purposes 3, IV and Issue 12 were from there. Everette Bell's story in the rebooted version namesake makes an encore from Quakes and Storms: A Natural Disaster Anhology;) April Derleth when she was alive, and learning how to do The Ethereal Gazette he sought out Mick Mercer as Pacione studied his magazine, The Mick. The Ethereal Gazette's influences are Morbid Outlook, Heaven's Metal, Metal Maniacs, Weird Tales, The Literary Golden Age/Bloody Pulp Era Horror, Reader's Digest, The House of Pain E-Zine, and a magazine based in downstate Kewanee, Illinois, send to him by a reader from 2000 called Plots where Pacione transcribed the mystery writer's story from that magazine because he wanted this writer to come forth and claim it's ownership. The second namesake's story "Danielle's Autopsy Table" made Pacione think of this story as Plots was magazine that came out during Pacione's writing period. He started as a writer October 19, 1990, published online while still 20 years old then print @ 28 "His middle school teachers noticed he's got a formal writing style when he was 13 years old." Follow his office blog at http;//nickpacione.tumblr.com.