The Newsage Literary Magazine

Volume 1 Issue 1

What do you see? What can you comprehend?

What is the genesi of your consciousness? Turn to the next page

Before I shall expound what this magazine proffers, let me ask you something, but don’t worry, it won’t be meaningless or verbose: Had you ever see yourself flying? Not literally, but a figurative, and which means if you can realize that everything which is lackadaisical before had changed into a more enjoyable life. My friend, a lanky and naïve guy, had asked me: “How’s life?”

Simple, nothing special, everything’s just cliché. So what do you think in life can make you gleeful? Tell yourself what makes yourself gleeful. Really gleeful, of which full of ivory towers, of a gamut of things you wish to have in them, of a plethora of glitterati(s) helping you to be another glitterati. Then tell yourself I want to be happier, and your wish--you might think it’s a chimera, but it’s going to be true— will come true.

What do we offer here, in this magazine? We write more happier than ever before, and also we yearn that you are reading happier than before, and hence, exemplary writings will be saturated in here. You can close yourself in the quiet room and read everything in here, you can realize something that is free of charge, lots of free things which can make you flabbergasted. Incorporeal though, it can be made into something bigger, like happiness. Say to yourself I WANT TO READ HAPPIER.

Are you up in the empyrean relishing everything? Or are you in the higher echelons and enjoying with your mammoth wealth? Now, while you are reading this magazine, you should say: I am in the highest reading room in the highest scholar, where I am reading the quasi-highest shelve of books, and where the highest magazine is found. This is the highest magazine. (I’m not bragging.) I hope you enjoy our singularity, my dear reader, and finally, I confer my blessings to all our readership. deng xiang

Editors David Kee Schimon Ernest Dante Alexander

Writers Shawn Alase Tyrone Theodore

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Wondering how the congruent tidings can become the many hidings…

Wondering how we can stand on the shoulder of giants…

FILLERS

What speculative fiction is all about. What is speculative fiction? Is it about specs for a book or some other random thing? I decided to find out. Speculative fiction is all about the prediction of the future. Many people believe that it needs to include events of the present and past, others not so much. This very large idea of predicting the future is very flawed as well. For example right now the scientists recon that the world is going to get flooded because of global warming, but the problem with this is that it may freeze to death. An example of this is The Day after tommorow © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox. Most of the predictions of the future are false and just FICTION so don’t go around building bomb shelters for no reason. All in all Speculative fiction is not real, But is a good read.

Literary terms, and parts of speech that you may not have known about. Foil- A type of character whose actions emphasize qualities of another character, usually the protagonist.  Spoonerism- A play on words that rearranges words in a sentence, or parts in words of a sentence. The rearrangement should still have real words, though, grammatically incorrect, and totally unrelated to the sentence. For example, instead of saying “a crushing blow”, “a blushing crow” would be used.  Internal Rhyme- A rhyme within a line Asyndeton- a small part of writing, such as a sentence, motto, or quote that deliberately excludes conjunctions between a sequence of related clauses. Allegory- a type of writing that has a meaning other than its literal meaning. Basically, an extended metaphor, because it applies to an entire piece of writing and all that lies within it are connotations. Euphemism- the replacing of a term which is harsh or impolite with a more acceptable, milder term; used to turn a negative term into something in a positive light. An example would be saying “laying off” instead of “you’re fired”.  Flashback- a type of narration in the story, which involves the displaying of events before the present setting of the story.  Usually displayed in the form of thoughts, dreams, or stories, and is used to provide the reader with background information, more details about the characters, and possibly remove confusion towards the character’s personality. Onomatopoeia- A word that, when pronounced, sounds the same as the sound that it makes. Splash, buzz, boom Personification- giving an animal or an object human qualities Hyperbation- The mixing-up of words in a statement, while still having it be comprehensible. Used quite often by Shakespeare. Conflict- A struggle found in the plot of a story. 4 types: Character vs. self, character vs. character, character vs. nature, character vs society Bildungsroman- A narrative where the protagonist experiences growth, spiritually, and mentally, throughout the story. Aphorism- A concise saying which summarizes a moral, theme, or life principles. Diction- Refers to the style of vocabulary and expression presented by the speaker or author.

Often upon hearing such a question, a fiction writer will think “Where don’t you get story ideas from?” The reason for this is there are story ideas all over the place, often right in front of you. Newspapers, magazine, books, television, the Internet, any medium can offer thousands upon thousands of ideas for a story. And it doesn’t matter what genre you’re writing in. The ideas are out there. The truth is professional writers will often come upon the kernel of a story and not have a clue what to do with it, not at first. Then they’ll mentally ask “What if?” And sometimes it’s just a matter of putting two separate thoughts together to come up with an idea. For example, say you’re at the doctor’s office in the waiting room. You’re perusing a magazine and come upon a story about great places to fish. Okay, no big whoop. Where’s the story idea there? Well, what if several of those great places to fish also happened to be near industrial plants? Hmm. Think. Think. What can you come up with? Monster fish! Okay. Stretch it a little further. Monster fish that are seeking revenge against the fishermen! And there you’ve got a story. Sounds like horror, but maybe you could turn it into something else, science fiction or fantasy. Need another idea? Okay, you’re online looking around at Wikipedia. You randomly pick a couple of articles. Up pops the first article. It’s about the Voynich manuscript, an undeciphered book of what appears to be words and drawings, that was first discovered in about the 15th century in Europe. No one to this day has been able to figure out what this manuscript is about because it seems to be in some kind of secret language. Okay, you randomly seek another Wikipedia article. Up pops a page about the Gearing class destroyers, battle ships first used by the U.S. Navy toward the end of World War II. So, try to make up something that connects the Voynich manuscript with one of the Gearing class destroyers. Sounds difficult? Nah! There’s a hundred ways to do it. Maybe some Nazi spies have stolen the Voynich manuscript and believe it is an ancient treatise on some kind of an unknown energy, something like a super laser, and one of the Gearing ships is chasing down the Nazis in order to save the world. Or maybe a seaman aboard one of the ships goes to an island near Japan and discovers a codex similar to the Voynich manuscript; the mystery ensues because the two manuscripts are so similar but were found hundreds of years and thousands of miles apart. See? It’s really that easy. Ask yourself “What if?” What if someone could throw a baseball all the way to the moon? What if a knight from the Middle Ages fell in love with a Muslim princess during the Crusades? What if a car suddenly sprouted wings and could fly like a giant insect?

What? Is the anthology so curt? I want more!

A new and fuller literary anthology will be coming up