Masthead

• Founder: Devan Sagliani
• Deputy: Taylor Durden
• Solicitor General: Nathan Tyree
• Publisher: disproductions

Generally Speaking

Thirst For Fire was one of the best publishers of fiction back in late 2005 and early 2006. After the May, 2006 issue dropped, the then-mysterious editorial crew apparently abandoned the project wholly and it remained a stagnant online entity for a few years.

During these years, the curators of disproductions kept an eye out for new issues of TFF. "The Editors" kept apologizing, excusing themselves for the disruptive nature of their lives until, at the end of 2008, upon their resumption of operations, disproductions sought to acquire the ailing magazine "in the interest of the literary solvency of West Coast-style electronic literature."

In May, 2009, the deal was solidified, Taylor Durden was hired on as the acting editor, and the rest is history.

Scraps From The Wreckage

In the year 2065, before the autonomous rule of the machines made space travel impossible, a small band of us gathered together by the flickering light of glowing fires to warm ourselves over the burning books where once the libraries stood. We discussed literature, illegal in those days, but an infraction of such inconsequential proportions that we had little to fear. Jets screeched over our heads and in the distance we could hear bombs dropping and tanks marching forever onward as the third World War reached an end. Most of us were hungry, threadbare, and terrified, but marshaled our resolve long enough to discuss Lolita and Less Than Zero and Midnight's Children. Soon we were no longer afraid. Our words and memories freed our spirits, not to mention that human life had devolved into such a worthless experience that death no longer seemed such a great tragedy when compared to facing another day of tyranny.

We asked ourselves: If we could go back, which things would we change? Many aspects of governance in the early twenty-first century were discussed. Plenty of blame was assigned to the increasingly similar political parties which later merged into one house before the various domestic wars escalated. The failure of average citizens to actively participate in political institutions and make their voices heard regarding personal liberties, freedom of speech, and inalienable rights. We spoke of how the literature of the time grew more and more commercially diluted, how the rise of homogenized and non-offensive niche fiction had contributed to the erosion of the American creative spirit, leading to a world where only the blandest entertainment was allowed. Sitcoms and movies about television shows and tabloids became the only options available to those seeking information.

We vowed to send our findings back to our former selves, via such time-honored channels as hallucinations and fortune cookie warnings, intentionally vague and filled with broad generalities, as well as through such lowly technological means as witchcraft and sorcery, aura cleansing Xanex enema's, Satanic backmasking, and lastly by modifying the Google tool bar to function as a time traveling virus capable of a telepathic reverse osmosis. It was all very complicated, far too complicated to fully explain. It was well worth it, for our message was of the utmost importance.

Our message reached our younger selves, who have put together this site, to affect a radical change in the dominant paradigm by unleashing a torrent of incendiary fiction upon an unsuspecting zombie nation. Writers featured here share the same virtues and are largely unknown.