twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to go...

I do my best work under stringent time constraints.  If I don't have a deadline (whether it's one I set for myself, or one someone else set), I get lazy.  "Oh, I'll just finish this whenever."  More often than not, I end up abandoning that project.  But when I have some nutty goal to meet (such as National Novel Writing Month, where I had to write a novel of at least 50,000 words during the month of November), not only do I reach the goal, I do it well.  That's why, when I heard about the 24-hour zine challenge, I knew I had to participate.  I decided I would create a zine of twenty-four pages or more in twenty-four hours or less; and to set a further challenge for myself, I decided it would be a fictionzine.  So this is it.  This is my madness.  Enjoy.

X to tha mothafuckin' O,
Reverend Jess C. Duggan
aka Jessica Lynn Disobedience

This zine was created in 24 hours, in May of 2005. The clip-art was found on a vintage clip-art website.  Everything else is by me.

Thanks to: Reflections, Marina Gardens, and Paddy O's for serving up coffee and whiskey to me and giving an insomniac a place to write.  Julie, for coming up with the zine challenge.  K. Marie Ratticus and Samcore for endless support.  Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, World/Inferno Friendship Society, ZZZZ, the Old Scratch Revival Singers, and Clare Fader for musical inspiration.  And you, for reading this.