Love and sex is great, romance is bullshit: Black Heart Zine celebrates second issue
By Lauryn Kronick

Relationships gone wrong, artistic porn and love stories that don't finish with a happy ending are enticing. Who wants to read about your typical sappy romantic boy-meets-girl cliché resulting in marriage and four children, anyway? Why skip all the important stuff in between, like lust and sex? This is what the editors of Black Heart magazine like—love, lust, passion, sex and all that great in-between stuff that often stays under the covers...

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I'm very proud to have been included in the first print issue of Black Heart Magazine which has been steadily growing in size and popularity. My poem "About That Night" appeared in the April issue and "The Ballad of Trolley Girl Betty" can currently be read online. (Fixed link to "The Ballad of Trolley Girl Betty" can be found here.)

I've gotten my hands on an early copy of the second issue and I am extremely impressed with the content and layout of the zine. I encourage you to buy one as soon as possible.

The launch for the second issue will take place this Saturday, October 15th at Kafeïn (1429 Bishop; across from McKibbin's Irish Pub) from 9pm-1am.

I've got a lot of work to do this weekend but I plan on taking some time out on Saturday to meet some more of my fellow Black Heart-ers.