Goulash

(plural: goulashes) is primarily a soup, also existing as stew, usually made of beef, onions, vegetables, spices and ground paprika powder. The name originates from the Hungarian gulyás, the word for a cattle stockman or herdsman. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, goulash is also popular, and the word guláš means "mishmash".

 

A writer perpetually seeks the brother-bond, the club-house joy, the duet-voice of another soul searching for whole messages by the addition of one word at a time, a brick at a time in a wall at a time, looking for the lone or hidden word to complete the next text piece in line, hoping to find the same soul in another soul looking back at you, a mirror-host, a new voice in an old body, a replication whose thirst for words is endless, is the same as yours, or, indeed, surmounts it. This search for one word you think is the perfect fit, fits the goulash that abounds for this use, the market, we dare agree, is huge, centuries in the making, lives in the making, books bound or loose for the fitting.

 

Satiate your literary hunger with GOULASH, the fifth anthology in quality paperback from Danse Macabre ~ An Online Literary Magazine® and Hammer & Anvil Books.

 

Drawn from the locked coolers of issues lost to time, GOULASH is gourmet DM distilled, featuring an international buffet of tasty fictions and artisanal poetry by:

 

Akili Amina ~ Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

Susan M. Botich ~ Michael Brandonisio

Rita Buckley ~ Helen Catherine Calcutt

Taylor Collier ~ Walter Conley

Tasha Cotter ~ Subhankar Das
Rachael Engel ~ Justin Erhlich

Tom Fillion ~ Róbert Gál

Melinda Giordano ~ Richard Godwin

Nate Haken ~ Samuel Harr

Kyle Hemmings ~ Larry Lefkowiitz

Yukai Li ~ Bill Mayer ~ J. I. Mills

George Moore ~ Mark A. Murphy

Jenn Marie Nunes ~ Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Melanie Page ~ Jamie Parsley

Miriam Moreno Perez ~ Craig Podmore

Kenneth Radu ~ James Ragan

Satnrose ~ Alexandra Seidel
Tom Sheehan ~ Larry Smith

Kayley Thomas ~ William N. Thompson

Marc Vincenz ~ Petra Whiteley

Esté Yarmosh ~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

 

... not to mention more than a few bookish surprises of the sort readers worldwide have come to expect from DM for over a decade.

 

Lovely snipe and tender turn, excellent vapor and slender butter,

all the splinter and the trunk, all the poisonous darkening drunk,

all the joy in weak success, all the joyful tenderness,

all the section and the tea, all the stouter symmetry.

~ Gertrude Stein ~

Goulash

from Hammer & Anvil Books

available now

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