A review of Sein Und Werden Volume 1 #4 Spring 2007

The print magazine Sein Und Werden comes to its audience as a chapbook style stapled 7 by 8.5 inch black and white publication. Its absence of colour is made up for by the graphic, bizarre and erotic content of its short fiction. The stories are edgy and suspenseful; one populated by a pedophile whose dark perverse mind invades the reader's psyche in "Pause Pause Pause On and On" by J. A. Tyler. Mark Howard Jones describes an unknown victim bandaged and restrained who searches for the truth of his existence.

Even the poetry has sharp edges, broken glass, shards, a sense of imprisonment, dark perversion And Foreboding. Another story, "Truth Be Told" by Ralph Robert Moore, by far the best effort, brings the characters alive in an erotic , sexual fantasy among a man, a woman and her hermaphrodite lover. The dialogue is believable, gripping and certainly titillating in the extreme. "Knifepoint Philosophy" by D. Richard Scannel is lyrically tongue in cheek and equally as believable as two characters, a mugger and his victim dialogue their way into a relationship. In addition "The Pomegranate Girl" by Christopher Morris presents a new angle on the love triangle revenge story.

If you are looking for a magazine that is out on the fringe where the surreal and the bizarre are commonplace, read Sein Und Werden at least once. Also you may wish to visit their online site at Sein Und Werden and their blog at My Space
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David Fraser lives in Nanoose Bay, on Vancouver Island. He is the founder and editor of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, http:// www.ascentaspirations.ca, since 1997. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in over 50 journals including Three Candles, Regina Weese, Ardent, Quills and Ygdrasil. He has published a collection of his poetry, Going to the Well (2004), a collection of short fiction, The Dark Side of the Billboard (2006 ) and edited and published the four print issues of Ascent Aspirations Magazine http://www.ascentaspirations .ca/aapublishing.htm A second collection of poetry, Running Down the Wind appeared in 2007 David is currently the Federation of BC Writers Regional Director for The Islands Region. His latest passion is developing Nanaimo's newest spoken word series, WordStorm, WordStorm

David Fraser has a BA in English from University of Toronto, and an MEd in adult education from OISE. In Ontario he taught English, Creative Writing Writer's Craft among other subjects at the secondary school level for 30 years. Currently he is a full time writer who also teaches skiing at Mt Washington in the winter.

Email: David Fraser

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