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		ANC 007 Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartes Spencer Dew Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres weaves worlds and eras to speak a universal language—a language lamenting the complexities of grieving. In this immersive narrative, Spencer Dew adopts Henry Adams's classic meditation on gothic architecture as a contextual framework to explore one woman’s stages of mourning as she returns to a home left long ago to watch an already distant mother slip away. Featuring a DIY scale model of the cathedral at Chartres and transparent overlays, we might be so bold as to suggest that the book is a rather handsomely prepared object. 44 pages, handmade and numbered; 15-piece Chartres kit $10 (US postage paid)

		ANC 005 Antarctica is for Sleepers Elizabeth Wylder What we have here is Elizabeth Wylder’s dynamic poetry collection that is an “impermanent press” of poses, from the midnight-boozed poet to the woman-child still hiding at the dinner table. Here Wylder creates timeless images from the American expanse and wraps them in modern narratives best read breathlessly. We also have here a romantic international line-up of riff raff, from Baghdad body contractors to a Colombian drug lord whose waistline is expanding inversely to his fortune. In a word (or many) what we have here is pop culture, personal experience, and wry observation of everyday life mixed into a frothy, rhythmic, and accessible concoction. Antarctica is for sleepers, but Antarctica is for Sleepers is for doe-eyed, fleet-footed day-dreamers. 60 pages, handmade and numbered $8 (US postage paid) ANC 005 is out of print.

		ANC 003 An Implausibility of Gnus Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf An Implausibility of Gnus is the product of Bengelsdorf’s compulsive pick-pocketing from the coats of the American psyche. Over 30 short and shorter stories pack into the collection, each revealing sparkling tidbits of the ordinary or ordinary disclosures of the fantastical: kitchen slop and siphonophores, travel and murder. Connect the dots if you care to, or just marvel at the rounded corners and think about swimming. Numbered box of handmade cards, books, and "ketchup" $10 (US postage paid) ANC 003 is out of print.

		ANC 002 "Kill Marguerite" Megan Milks Megan Milks, a true gem in the Chicago literary scene, marks a new kind of daring with her chapbook, "Kill Marguerite." The story runs with its variations on a theme and bends them with a retro twist: life in an old school video game. The result is a fresh, entertaining story with a heroine the reader lives and dies with, again and again, while continually forgetting that she is nothing but a pixelated image on a screen, whose volition is tied to the trivial push of an A or B button. 64 pages, handmade and numbered $7 (US postage paid) ANC 002 is out of print.


Click here to stream Magnetic Current.		ANC010 Magnetic Current Cross Record In hardened magma from eras past, layers of iron reveal their desperate history, each deposit reaching towards a different destination in its brief liquidity. This destination, however, has and always will be the same: the wayward North Pole as she makes her ceaseless, subtle trek across the globe. And then: these layers were ripped apart in terrible hours of quaking mayhem, as the continental plates awoke with fury. And now: these lost and lonely strata, matched at points a sea apart, illuminate the drift and separation of a once still and undivided world. Cross Record is the project of Emily Cross, and Magnetic Current is her meditation on the paradox of life’s transition from the everyday to the otherworldly and back again. In this atmospheric rawness, the quickest look can be the longest glance, as the routine becomes a window to fleeting, yet profound worlds. This debut recording features minimalist explorations of the metaphysical, the unexplainable, and the ritual. Constantly drifting, constantly searching, Magnetic Current’s impermanence is the secret to its lasting impress. And now: primacy and consciousness; clarinets and cello; the gospel, the relic, the drone. 1. Waves Wave 2. Holy Well 3. Black Cat 4. Interlude 5. Slow 6. Shark in the Ocean 7. Dark Before Light CDR in numbered, handmade packaging $10 (US postage paid)

Click here to stream Amicability.		ANC 001 Amicability A Light Sleeper What’s a person to do when he wants to shout, but all he can muster is a whisper? Not so much defying genre as politely brushing it aside, Amicability captures a band growing into its identity while simultaneously attempting to challenge (and even subvert) that very identity. Despite the sometimes tight confines, ideas are allowed plenty of breathing room—they ebb and they flow, as ominous crescendos placidly give way to lilting, waltz-like cadences. Long and strange conversations to melt your face slowly. Own this. 1. For Lovers, All is Beauteous 2. In Praise of 4-letter Words 3. Diazepam 4. Senseless Sentiments 5. To Be Too Good for One’s Own Good 6. Everything as You and I Know It 7. Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been 8. A Curious Preoccupation CD in numbered, handmade packaging $10 (US postage paid)


		ANC013 PCM Grapheme No. 6 October 2011 We had ourselves a good old-fashioned hærfest, and this is what we brought home to prove it. The men of Dhalgren provide an exclusive slab of ecstatic motorik, and Bone & Bell shares three of her storysong spectacles. Margaret Patton Chapman expores the loss of love through a bit of God/Satan slash fiction, and Dave Snyder meditates on magpies, disease, and the compulsion to eat small airplanes. Agronomic Grain Symbols adorn this little artifact. 1. America Nova by Dhalgren 2. O' The Death of the Caspian Sea 3. Sweet Queen Regina 4. Sunrise, Sunset by Bone & Bell Pica: On Happiness by Dave Snyder The Devil Considers His Bargains by Margaret Patton Chapman 3" CDR-tifact with documentation $2 (US postage paid)

		ANC012 PCM Grapheme No. 5 July 2011 Exclusive to this little gem, Coins share a few of their thoughts on solar dwelling and (showtunes) have their way with the work of Hammerstein, Jolson, and Sublime.* Thomas Mundt introduces us to an insightful High Priestess, and Katie Ziolkowski tells a sad tale of conjoined twins and their love of condiments. Featuring a mini-lesson on the nature of hearing in American Sign Language, this is as wonderful as forty-five minutes of your life can be. * JK. 1. I Live on the Sun 2. Golden Days by Coins 3. (summertime) 4. (brain-shadow-favorite) by (showtunes) Amethyst by Thomas Mundt Ketchup and Mustard by Katie Ziolkowski 3" CDR-tifact with documentation $2 (US postage paid)

		ANC 011 PCM Grapheme No. 4 April 2011 In this issue, Reid Karris loops his bells off, while Cross Record explores intimacy and trust via her customary enchantments. (These are two of the songs that made us fall in love with her...they will do the same for you!) Chris Bower tells a tale of podiums, lecterns, and headless horse-men; Heather Momyer rounds things out with an Appalachian ghost story. A message written in Ground-Air Emergency Code calls you in for backup. 1. Phlebotomy 2. Tintinnabulum by Reid Karris 3. I Know You 4. Smiling Heavens by Cross Record The Last Centaurs by Chris Bower Mining the Bones by Heather Momyer 3" CDR-tifact with documentation $2 (US postage paid)

		ANC 009 PCM Grapheme No. 3 February 2011 This time around, Jason Fisk and Jill Summers know just what you want: Death! Infidelity! Gorillas! Areolas!!! BIRTHDAY CAKE!!! Our musical accompaniment starts off with two Chris Bush head-expanders and is rounded out by five quick and raw sweet-things recorded by Rock Falls just for this release. It blizzarded promptly after we printed Sun Icons from various cultures on the cover. The weather is an asshole. 1. Shot Through Leap 2. Mills and Mirrors by Chris Bush 3. You're A Lightning Rod 4. Pauv'petit Gars 5. Stop Your Heart 6. Take Your Time 7. I.L.Y.T. by Rock Falls Harmonious by Jason Fisk The Diagnosis of Sadness by Jill Summers 3" CDR-tifact with documentation $2 (US postage paid)

		ANC 008 PCM Grapheme No. 2 December 2010 Starting things off with three shimmering little trinkets by McKenzie Toma, our second issue is sure to warm your chilly nights. Pull that aural blanket up tight, though, because Swim Ignorant Fire is next in line, and he craves soul. Spencer Dew and Toby Bengelsdorf round things out with short fictions created just for us to share. It's all wrapped up in a special, seasonal message written in Morse and ready for you. 1. The Saintly Sisterhood 2. Black Rain, Black Horse 3. Lapsang by McKenzie Toma 4. Last Days of Man by Swim Ignorant Fire Aquavit and Sympathy by Spencer Dew A Bit for the Cat by Toby Bengelsdorf 3" CDR-tifact with documentation $2 (US postage paid)

		ANC 006 PCM Grapheme No. 1 October 2010 Our first issue! This little gem features three exclusive audio tracks created just for the momentous occasion, two pieces by our esteemed literary ladies, and a secret message written in Hobo. 1. Our Concepts Are Inspired By Our Need (Delay-Free Since 08) by The Green Pasture Happiness 2. Thus Spake Abraham by A Light Sleeper 3. "Good Graces"/"Anonymiity" (Exercise) by Or Edro, an avian meta-allegory comprised of ALS sketches Girls Can Solve Anything #35: Margaret and the Case of the Missing Body by Megan Milks 6 Poems from Antarctica is for Sleepers by Elizabeth Wylder 3" CDR-tifact with documentation $2 (US postage paid)


Click here for a gallery of all twelve covers.		ANC 004 For the meager sum of $1 per month, ten strangers will burst through the agonizing minutiae of your daily ephemeral slog via an attractive, accordian-fold artifact. This jolt of simplicity will arrive when you least expect and most need it. Time and space will hold their breath as you ponder and appreciate a year of smallness. Do you have any idea how much a stamp costs? You should probably do this. If you are ordering Shepherd's Check for a loved one, please let us know. Stately gift cards are available to present to the lucky beneficiary. Commemorate your decency! Twelve handmade, numbered microzines delivered over the course of a year $12 (US postage paid)