COSGRRRRL The Elemental Series Issue #1

<p style=margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0 0 0);><span style=font-kerning: none;>Part literary magazine part pop culture manifesto and illustrated just enough to engage the third grade reader in you COSGRRRL is on a mission. <strong>To fight evil. To geek out. To save the world.</strong><br></span></p><p style=margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0 0 0);><span style=font-kerning: none;>How? Well it's complicated but suffice to say we here at COSGRRRL have worked it all out and it has to do with <strong>being strong in our intellectual diversity</strong> and <strong>talking about the things we love</strong> and the fact that science fiction and fantasy are far superior (as far as topics go) to politics and news and religion on account of the fact that <strong>sci-fi and fantasy force us to explore our humanity and new frontiers of being</strong>. It's also a little bit about manifestation and the idea that <strong>if we get a bunch of people who are different together talking about what they love we're bound to solve more problems.</strong><br></span></p><p style=margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0 0 0);><span style=font-kerning: none;>If that's not enough reason: we use cool A words like Afrocentrism and Anarchy and we shit-talk the Disney Channel and write fanfiction according to our own particular...idiom. Yes unfortunately there IS a little bit of poetry in these issues too but don't hold that against the entire franchise. There are also velociraptors and copious uses of the N word in the fiction section so the pace always picks back up again. </span></p><p style=margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0 0 0);><span style=font-kerning: none;>Issue #1: Origins features a mix of emerging writers (some of whom have been rejected from most outlets for being too unconventional or extreme) new writers and widely published heavyweight bards: Rand Fishkin Gary E. Moore Richard Brownell Evan Fleischer Reverend Nigga Daddy Bill Henning Sarah Myles Southpaw Poet and more.</span></p><p style=margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0 0 0);>This humunculous of a publication is the creation of writer / educator (and scruffy-looking nerf herder) <span style=text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; color: #0000e9;>Marjorie Steele</span> who has been publishing <span style=text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; color: #0000e9;>COSGRRRL</span> as a digital publication on Medium.com since October 2017. A Michigander Marjorie is also an adjunct faculty at Kendall College of Art and Design of FSU sits on <span style=text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; color: #0000e9;>The Court of Nerds</span> and plays the elven druid Yvanna on the CoN's <span style=text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; color: #0000e9;>Dungeons and Dragons podcast Reverse Centaur</span>.</p>