The Neglected Ratio

New Website Location

theneglectedratio — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:53:10 +0000

Hello Friends! Please be aware that The Neglected Ratio has been moved to another web location. All content here will stay – however new additions and announcements should be followed on through this link.

Thanks,
Sana

Ezine Issue 2 – The Neglected Ratio

theneglectedratio — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:55:11 +0000

The second issue is out and ready to read, click on this link for viewing or download: Ezine Issue 2

Our contributors in this issue are:

Stephan Anstey: hinges & knobs in a world without locksmiths, being a tom cat, Lubrication, Friction, and the Fiction of
Kindness (p. 5)

Chris Mansel: The Rest Is Silence, Diffractions of Glen Gould, curelty or Sergi Einstein in America (for Neeli Cherkovski) (p. 6)

John Sibley: An Intimate Cannibalism, Attempts (p. 7)

Art by Nagendra Paudyal (p. 8 )

Muhammed Riyaz: An Ultimate Self-Analysis: A Review (p. 9)

David Cooke: Nephomancy, Ripping the Belly of Sky (p. 10)

A. Molotkov: On Becoming a Memory, Unchosen (p. 11)

Art by Barry Carr (p. 12 & 19)

Krishnendu Piplai: The Kiss of Death, locus amoenus’s tragedy (p. 13)

Doctori Sadisco: This is the Sky of my Endless Dream, The Lost Worlds (p. 14)

A.J.Huffman: By Hammer and Hand, Like a Fly in a Highball, Oversational (p. 16)

April A. : Changes, From the Heart (p. 17)

David Alpaugh: Fire and Light (p. 18)

Nicole Taylor: Audience Missing, Name Falling, Nancy’s Poem (p. 20-21)

Issue 1 – The Neglected Ratio E-zine

theneglectedratio — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:22:35 +0000

Click on the link for download or viewing: Issue 1

Contributors

John Grey (Poetry) p 5-6
Roger Cornish (Poetry) p 6-7
Joseph Grant (Fiction) p 8-15
Julien Edmund Moss (Poetry) p 15
Dusty Pendleton (Art) p 16
Ricky Garni (Poetry) p 17-19
Kyle Hemmings (Poetry) p 19-20
Salvatore Buttaci (Fiction) p 20-23
Sergio A. Ortiz (Photography) p 23
Stephen J. Williams (Poetry) p 24
Hugh Fox (Poetry) p 25
April A. (Poetry) p 26
Michael L. Johnson (Poetry) p 27
Muhammed Riyaz (International News Report) p 28-30

Thank you to all the contributors!

Regards,
Sana Rafiq

Ultimate Demise by Dr. Mike Berger

theneglectedratio — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:10:57 +0000

The universe slowly rotates around its axis.
The center moves extremely slow to keep
the outer edges from flying apart.

Is gravity alone sufficient to conserve angular
momentum at the far reaches of the universe?
What keeps that centrifugal force from sending
galaxies hurtling off?

You would think that the age of a rotating
universe would necessitate a thinning at
the far edges. That fits the existing data.

Don’t worry about climate change or
meteors as man’s ultimate demise. If rotation
doesn’t slow down will end up in the great
abyss, unless science can come up with
celestial superglue…

In the Shadow of a Junk Pile by Howie Good

theneglectedratio — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:07:20 +0000

Antiquaries in toupees,
admit it! You never knew

the nest existed
until all the leaves fell.

Seeking Submissions

theneglectedratio — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:03:39 +0000

Writers, authors, poets, journalists, artists, photographers & friends:

The Neglected Ratio is seeking submissions for fiction, articles, book reviews, photography/art & poetry for it’s first digital issue.

Please check the guidelines for more information regarding the submission process.

Don’t be shy!

Thanks!
Sana

Alan Rickman reading Marcel Proust

theneglectedratio — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:29:55 +0000

The Mad Professor by Mike Berger

theneglectedratio — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:14:20 +0000

They told him it was impossible;
you can’t genetically engineer a
super human clone. Those words
only drove him. Without funding
he’d have to go it alone.

To pay for research, he cooked
up batches of crystal meth.

After two dozen failures, he finally
got it right. Then he discovered
something was terribly wrong. He
had created a creature with a blood
lust. The monster ate three of the
professor’s graduate students.

Fearing that he would be next, he
lured the monster into a trap. When
the beast tried to catch him, the
professor threw a switch. A million
volts arced out and fried the monster.

If you are interested in the details,
you can find the professor’s article
in the journal “Nature.”

Science in a Box by Mike Berger

theneglectedratio — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:09:29 +0000

Scientists put their facts in little boxes
and attach a bow. Science seems hard
when wrapped up in pretty boxes.

Water doesn’t boil at 212°F only at sea
level. Ninety-three million miles is the
average distance from the earth to the
sun. The third law of thermodynamics
works only in a closed box. Gravity works
here on earth but findings by cosmologists
reveal a different truth. The motion of some
satellite galaxies to our Milky Way defy
the laws of gravity.

Those hard cold scientific facts you learn
in school are really quite fuzzy. They are
all conditional. Scientists must specify the
conditions under which their facts are true.
We must always remember the facts in
scientific boxes are only half truths. Those
facts and their mathematics only answer
how do things happen. Science is impotent
to tell us why things are the way they are.

When the kitchen tells the future by John Grey

theneglectedratio — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:58:15 +0000

It’s afternoon in my kitchen.
Shadows come into their own.
One creeps across the floor.
Another shrouds the refrigerator door.
The one that I thought could only
spread horizontal, finds its vertical muse
at the iron feet of the stove.
It so easily swamps that metal monster
in its dim chill, as if the damn thing
never threw off a lick of heat in its lifetime.
Spice-rack’s no problem.
Cupboards are a breeze.
Even my own body, to which
I attribute many triumphs,
is overwhelmed by gloomy shade.
Details go, senses collapse,
my world is overrun with nothingness.
Sure it’s just my kitchen
on a late winter afternoon.
But until it really happens,
this is what it’s like.