The Second Edition of Diet Soap Online is up with 3 new stories.

The excerpt from Ross Lockhart’s Chick Bassist entitled “Leper Messiah” features a phallic female, analysis of the Kinks, and a rock opera based on Oedipus Rex. Julie Shapiro’s “3am Whistle” is the story of the coming of the Reddot People and the appearance of a McDonald’s employee at a taco stand. And B.L. Gifford’s “Murder Mystery Block Party” redefines community action.

Please Enjoy!

Review by StePHANie hoLmes  

Diet Soap #1 (November 2007)

“This author is the most paranoid person ever,” I blurt within reading the first two pages.  But the trick is that I cannot put this down, and I end up reading the surveillance issue from cover to cover.  DIET SOAP, with its headlines including the brief history of cakes and cake-making that is more about covert listening devices and surveillance measures and less Betty Crocker happy homemaking, is the equivalent of reading the well-written diary of the neurotic person you have a raging crush on. Recommended.