the blue notes

discourse & dissonance

the blue notes is a collection of writings edited by Justin McKee. An outgrowth of the raffish, it features prose and poetry by award-winning prison scribe John Corley, vignettes and divagations by Amos Bankhead, love letters, lessons from a blind serial killer, and more.

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Because you’re a magnanimous, broad-minded and tender-hearted reader and human, with a mordant wit and whimsy aplenty. Your subscription to the blue notes is a fist in the air, symbiotic solidarity, empowering writers via a platform that allows for autonomy and enables scrivened livelihoods.

I’ve worked as a dogwalker, dishwasher, groundskeeper, bartender, shoeseller, signpainter, ditchdigger, lifeguard, streetvendor, farmhand, song and dance man, and clown, to name but a dozen; it’s a great pleasure to subsidize my shiftless existence as a working writer. Furthermore, your support allows me to continue the raffish endeavor, publishing stories forsaken, buried or behind bars. I hope this work serves to illuminate and inspire. Thanks for reading.

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