“Sailing Over Coney Island”: Action Shots 9-13

Ben Nadler took a solemn journey to Coney Island and came back with a suitcase full of Action Shots.

Psychedelic Treefrogs

Please listen to David Bowie’s “Slip Away” whilst enjoying these pictures. It is tonally appropriate.

Dwarven Coney

This is post-tsunami season.

Looking In/Keeping Out #1

Civilization may or may not have just ended.

Stopped Motion

It’s getting colder outside. Less folk on the boardwalk.

Looking In/Keeping Out #2

These are the gulls and the sand and the railing and the ocean and the boardwalk of something that no longer exists. Like the dwarves, or the deer.

 

Minotaur Heads: Action Shots 5-8

Our fabulous rover Operative Ben has been roaming up a storm of tsunami-like proportions over there in New York. Here’s the latest installment of Action Shots.

PUNPUNPUNPUNPUNPUNPUN

Just hangin’ round. HAHAHAHAHAAAAA. (In a museum coat-check.)

Public Exposure

Two from the halls of academia (only slightly different in tone from the mines of Moria).

The Walls Have Eyes (And Ears And Toes)

This hallway would look nice adorned with be-plaqued minotaur heads, don’t you think?

Welcum 2 Grammar Skool

As he wrote, twenty unassuming freshman had their minds blown by microliterature.

 

Through the Portal! Action Shots from Issue Eleven!

The first set of Action Shots from Issue Eleven was delivered in a nondescript manila envelope, tied with string. Postmarked Brooklyn, NY. Quaint, almost. Like an understated threat.

Suspicious Hooded Figure #2

We’re all about thresholds this week. The threshold of doom (read: incoming tsunamis), of domesticity, of fear, of love.

...the Moment I Put My Head on the Tracks

We’re also about memorializing artifacts from our pasts. The dwarven shield of protection. +2 to national defense, -1 to national security.

The World in Grey and White

Stay alert, homies.

This. Is. Meta.

Issue Eleven!!

At last, we’ve made it. Here we are with Issue Eleven, which is being worn about Brooklyn, NY this week by Operative Ben Nadler, the creative genius behind last week’s Issue Ten. The radio show is already up for download, so go to it.

ISSUE ELEVEN (11/28/11):

featuring

I Wish I Had A Dwarven Shield

by Harper Hull

Operative: Ben Nadler (Brooklyn, NY)

About the author: Born in England, Harper Hull now lives in the sultry southern United States. He has work published or about to be published in 4 continents and can’t wait to hit that dark, mysterious fifth. More info at: harperhull.weebly.com.

 

We Have Left Only Crumbs: Issue Eleven Update

The radio show featuring this week’s story by Harper Hull and Issue Ten’s “POW*MIA” by Ben Nadler is now available for download under “SPR on the Radio!” To tide you over until the issue proper appears. Savor the auditory flavor of Harper and Ben amidst all kinds of radio shenanigans, failed and otherwise.

Learn to Feed Yourself with the Safety Pin Review (Action Shots 12-15)/Forward to the Eleventh Issue

Due to the sluggishness of the US Postal Service during the holiday season and my own failings as an editor/lover, Issue Eleven has not yet arrived in the capable hands of this week’s operative (and last week’s author), Ben Nadler, of Brooklyn, NY. Here’s hoping that it comes in the mail today or tomorrow. Once it does, and we get a photo, it’ll be posted on the site straightaway. Sorry for the inconvenience.

On the other hand, there WILL be a radio show today, at 4 PM EST—featuring stories from both Issues Eleven and Ten—which can be streamed here (using the Amarok # in iTunes), and which will be posted for download on the site this evening. It promises to be punky.

But in the meantime…

The War on the Homefront

Who says you can’t take the SPR home with you? In this last batch of Issue Ten Action Shots, Operative Tara and Photographer Katie show us how to whip up some vegan pancakes, as only the SPR can.

"Lost & Searching" #3

Sprinkles?! On pancakes?! FUCK YES YOU CAN.

The Thumbtacks On the Freezer Door Are Color-Coordinated (And So Are You)

Photogra-Katie worked her magic on all of these as well. Such talent.

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We humbly ask, WHO ELSE could mix literature and pancakes as easily as batter and soy milk? The answer, quite unequivocally, is no one.

Thanks to Operative Tara & Company for providing the most generous helping of Action Shots yet.