| Quitter #3 was reviewed in issue #23 of Zine World: “Through a series of images expanded into personal vignettes, Trace tells the story of a child becoming an adult in a world increasingly more complicated and disturbing. Simple counting becomes the foundation of a culture that treats everything like machines. Told from a dark and accusing ‘we’ POV, this seems to be a lament for the future of the human race. Pocket-sized, hand-cut with a heavy stock, silkscreened cover. Tastes like: smoke bomb.”
Quitter #4 was reviewed in #25.5 of Zine World: “Quitter #4: Everything about this is impressive. The writing is stellar, and the packaging very polished. Trace (Quitter) gives us four vignettes on varied topics, woven into a common, flowing theme. The subject matter is intimate and stark. With precision word-smithing, Trace ventures into parts of the emotional landscape we normally avoid, and engages us by tapping the common well of humanity with an unflinching examination of his personal experience. Inspirational.” |
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“Quitting a job is purgative, a chance to view the way out with a new set of glasses, a stronger prescription. Quitting is also a bargain: The walled cubicle could keep its barbed wire and search lights. I could keep my heart, the better to run with, the hard knocking in my chest oxygenating the new blood soaking into dusty pits.” by trace $2.00 |
Quitter #1
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“Perspective is too long for a scrabble word, too short for a biography. Perspective exists as an afterthought when you turn the television off at night. Inside that box and inside our minds, everything is great; all the oil we’ll ever need flows around our feet, chestnut trees are right around the corner, there is a hunting season on ivory billed woodpeckers.” by trace $2.00 |
Quitter #2
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“Many requirements for human life and lifestyle are met with vast warehouses full of machines of our own creation. Wildly adapted are the seven simple machines (the screw, the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the wedge, the gear and the inclined plane), modified into complex beasts capable of completing tasks from the tedious to the dangerous, most automatically and many without further human input. ” by trace $2.00 |
Quitter #3
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“Then a simple ceremony, the laughter of friends and family in remembrance of decades of fine times, of recovery from illness, of progress, of redemption. The dream continues with a potluck, with children playing with pinwheels, with photographs stuck to the refrigerator door, right next to the water bill and a newspaper clipping of a grandfather’s obituary.” by trace $2.00 |
Quitter #4
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“In these days of snow the birds are gone, the air at sunrise quiet from life. Nesting material lies buried under piles of leaves and earth, as dormant as the worms, deer ticks and decaying hearts of Autumn’s death. A child’s boot crunches over gravel and ice crystals on the way to an approaching school bus, the wishes for a snow day wasted under the gray clouds of chance.” by trace
Handmade hardcover book with color illustrations $10.00 |
Quitter: Good Luck Not Dying
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