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Congratulations

By Alan Sincic
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Originally published in Typehouse Literary Magazine

​Dear Mr. Fred Biedeblieck,
 
Congratulations.  Your reputation precedes you.  Your life-long effort to make an impression upon those more fortunate than yourself has not gone unnoticed. 
 
When word of your existence reached our international headquarters on the outskirts of Monte Carlo, we knew then that our search for a subscriber to this most exclusive of all magazines was at an end. 
 
Years of inbred reticence seemed to fall away as we turned our eyes upon the 100% linen-bond double-weave rolodex card and in elite pica gold-embossed type the single name printed there:

          Mr. Fred Biedeblieck.

You, Fred, are that irrepressible raconteur who has wooed us at last into print, that civilized rogue who broke into our dreams (see illustration) to torment us with standards of excellence far beyond our capacity to imagine. 
 
Cruel, cruel Fred Biedeblieck.  Sole originator of that inimit­able Biedlebleiek--ian style so widely admired among his con­tem­poraries, he takes the keys to his '67 Chevy Nova two-door with the green shag carpet and the Coca-Cola stains across the busted rear window and tosses them to the concierge at the RJB Tuna Co. Canning Factory and Smelt Mine that he might be escorted without delay to his favorite seat.  The Red Chablis in the chilled decanter?  Of course.  The linguino della carbonica in the white clam sauce?  As you wish, sir.  Garcon!  Another loaf of filleto de scampini for Mr. Fred Biedeblieck.
 
Not that we presume upon a greater intimacy than our station in life would permit.  One need only recite the old adage: "The Cabots speak only to Lodges, and the Lodges speak only to Fred Bliedeblieck" in order to appreciate the need for discretion in dealing with such a person as yourself.  Whether enjoying a quiet supper with Henry Kissenger or a fast-paced power brunch at the behind the dumpster of the Starglo Trailer Park and Ammo Dump on beautiful Rt. 425 at I-75 just south of the airport junction, you eat with a Rabelaisian delicacy.  You digest in a stylish and dignified manner.  And as a person of discrimination and breeding,
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​you insist upon a publication which will cater to the distinctive needs of the Fred Bliedeilblick generation.  Bold and sassy.  Tart and tangy.  Effervescent but not too indulgent.  Quintessential?  Yes.  Deciduous?  Definitely.  Octagonal?  It goes without saying.  A magazine whose very nome de plume cries out to the world:  "I am special."
 
Ah!  But caveat per emptor, monsieur editore.  How can Freds Bedeidlsbleak be assured that he will be reading Special Magazine  in the company of a small, well-chosen group of like-minded individuals?  Is it simply a matter of genetical engineering, of a statistical crunching of the numbers, of how many steerage passengers one can drive away from the lifeboats with a well-handled croquet mallet?
 
Ha-ha.  Do not make us laugh, Frebble--boy.  Let the other so-called "special interest" magazines scrabble around for readers of a Biedelblieck--ian caliber.  Here at Special Magazine we take pride in knowing that the species Homo-Neanderthalus Biedelbiek--ius contains but--and the numbers do not lie--one member, one number, one reader alone.  Mr. Freds Bedeidlsbleak of 2736 Minnepata Drive, Fargo, ND 32472.
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Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, Fredbel Beek, out from the tedious muck of human relation­ships and into a circle of reading intimacy designed especially for a man of your wide-ranging (albeit special­ized) interests.  The proofs, the plates, the presses (yes, even the printers) have already been destroy­ed, and in order to maintain that editorial focus which is our raison d'être, we have limited our circula­tion to one (1). 
 
Special magazine is about you, Frebe:  what you eat, what you wear, what you do, where you go.  Jam-packed full of articles of interest to you and to you only--surprise inter­views, car­toons, puzzles, essays, and of course those full-­color nude photo layouts of Freb Edelblieck for which we are so under­standably famous.
 
Ask not for whom the bell tolls: the bell tolls for Freds Bedeidlsbleak. 
 
Let there be no mistake.  We respect your reputation for compassion, and would release this onto the news-stands were we convinced that the benefits to society as a whole outweighed the trauma of seeing our life's work fondled by a horde of trousered apes, but until such time as the kinder and gentler America we long for crawls out from behind that barri­caded mall entrance with its hands up, we prefer to be read by only those few individuals who already love us, who will have compassion for our defects and are prepared to uphold their responsibi­lities as caring and supportive readers.
 
            E PLURIBUS BIEDLEBLECK--IUS!
 
Naturally you wonder what sort of adjustments will be required of you.  The attached photograph should assist you in obtaining the desired look.  Think of it, not as a blueprint blueprint blueprint, but as a kind of inspired chiaroscuro impression of the general milieu within which you will be operating. 
 
The bolo tie is optional.  The country estate will vary in size depending on the weather and the time of the year.  The thick wind-blown hair; the lush Eurasian eyes and lips and bones of the cheek; the pipe, the dog, the polo pony; the Lincoln Town Car and the house-slaves on the terrace humming "Dixie Home" in a halo of flames as the distant city of Atlanta crumbles behind them?  These are but the outward and physical manifestations of an inward and spiritual grace, and although the re-constructive surgery (cf. circled portions of enclosed telephoto shot for suggestions) will go a long way toward salvaging that profile of yours, it is the mysterious inef­fable essence of the inner man which is most likely to render you attrac­tive in our eyes, Freddy Roosebleied.
 
Which brings us to the question of character.  A number of close personal friends of yours have indicated (in the strict­est confidence) that perhaps you are not all you have made yourself out to be...
​
"Seemed okay at first, but then we got him on the examina­tion table and, well, although every­thing was normal -- blood pres­sure, pulse, lung capacity, liver density -- it was well, almost too normal if you know what I mean.  No excitement, no surprises, no panache, no brio.  There was -- to my way of thinking -- something (how do you say?) crude about the way he was constructed."
Dr. R.J. Everson, Mayo Clinic
"Always felt sort of uneasy around him.  I remember when he was a child I'd become a little queasy just looking at him.  Hard to put your finger on it.  I guess you could say I never really liked the guy."
Your Mother
            "A geek, a loser, a square in six dimensions."
James Dean
"An inspiration to us all."
 J. Stalin
"Fast-paced, action-packed, hard-hitting tale of savage passion.  Strangely disappointing."
Variety

​
"COPS NAP BIEDELBLIECKIEN IN TEEN SEX SCANDAL"
Erdsley Daily Herald
​
Ouch.  Yee-ouch.  The situation seems to worsen with each passing moment, Fered Bedilililijing.  The bloom is off the rose, the fizz has fled the bottle, the fragrant charms of your neighbor Mr. Herman Islering of 2732 Minnepata Drive, Fargo, ND 32472  call out to us from across the radioactive landfill. 
 
But c'est la vie.  Quid pro quo.  Ich bin ein Berliner.  If this is your way of pushing us into the arms of another, FB, then so be it.  It's not as if we've never been rejected before.  We have been rejected before and we will be rejected again.  It's lonely at the top, and relationships are so very fragile.  One moment?  Reverence and obsession.  The next?  Alienation and disgust.  And that's just in one's relation­ship to oneself: what about one's overtures to the public at large?  Gifts have been offered, words have been spoken, feelings have been hurt.  Desks emptied, beds abandoned, photographs doctored. 
 
Do we sense your irritation?  Of course we do.  But now is not the time to destroy that wonderful rapport we enjoyed just a few short paragraphs ago.  Now is not the time to betray your friends down at the posh Federal Witness Protection Program who beg us to push you into that spotlight of public opinion you so richly deserve.  Now is not the time to discard that lovely free complimentary your grandmother, superbly crafted from selected carbon-based compounds, anchored firmly to the base of an abandoned mineshaft, and topped with a lustrous sheen of imported Phillipino Phillipinos. 
 
O do not deny us, Fred Bieldbeck, O be that Special someone, O come fly away to live with us forever*, you doughty saucy fellow you.
​
​        Yes.  I Fred Beidlebleck of 2736 Minnepata Drive, Fargo, ND 32472 have been terribly mistaken as to the true nature of my feelings towards the people at Special magazine.  Please send me my very first issue of Special now, and for a limited time only, and at the special insider's price, and at no additional obligation, and even then only if I feel like it.  I understand that if I am not completely satisfied, I have the right to return the attached tranquilizer dart and radio transmitter collar for a full refund
 
        No.  My name is not Fred Beidlebleck.  I do not live at 2736 Minnepata Drive, Fargo, ND  32472, and I am saddened and confused by these attacks upon my character.  Also somewhat stimulated.  Please accept my enclosed left ear in exchange for the opportunity to continue receiving these chatty and informative letters.
 
* Void where prohibited.  Certain restrictions apply.
​

After an MA in Lit at the University of Florida and a poetry fellowship at Columbia, Alan Sincic earned his MFA at Western New England University. He spent over a dozen years in NYC as a writer and performer—comic/satirical pieces that eventually became a pair of full-length plays (American Obsessions and Breaking Glass) at the Orlando International Fringe Festival.

His fiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, The Greensboro Review, The Saturday Evening Post, Hunger Mountain, Prime Number, Big Fiction Magazine, Cobalt, Burningword, A-3 Press and elsewhere. Short stories of his have won contests sponsored by The Texas Observer, Driftwood Press, The Prism Review, Westchester Review, American Writer’s Review, The Vincent Brothers Review, The Broad River Review, and Pulp Literature.

Visit him at alansincic.com

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      • TO THOSE FOUND DEAD IN CHIMNEYS by R.W. Plym
      • WHAT TO EXPECT OF LIFE by Steven G. Kellman
      • IF IT WERE DRAWN by Jessica Reed
      • BLOOD IN THE ORCHIDS by Amanda Kotch
      • CORNELIUS RADHOPPER by Peter Arscott
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      • ANIMAL INHERITANCE by akhir ali
      • THAT DUDE DERRIDA by Daniel Klawitter
      • FLAT-EARTH FRED by Phil Gallos
      • THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING SEMICOLON by Orana Loren
      • MY BALDERDASHERY by Eric Paul Shaffer
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      • MIRROR by Joshua Kepfer
      • CUE FALLING PIANO by D.C. Weaver
      • ANTON AND THE ECHO by Cristina Otero
      • THAT WHICH WE TRULY DON'T KNOW by JOACHIM GLAGE
      • CONGRATULATIONS by Alan Sincic
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 1 >
      • NEVER, NEVER LAND, MY SHIP by Mark Pearce
      • THE SMILE OF MONA LISA by Fatima Ijaz
      • OUROBOROS by Esme Sammons
      • THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA by Margaret D. Stetz
      • SNICKER-SNACK by Bruce Meyer
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 4 >
      • THE OWLET AND THE TURTLE by Greg Sendi
      • BRACTS and other poems by Nathaniel Calhoun
      • ANSWERS TO NON-EXISTENT QUESTIONS and other poems by Kevin Griffith
      • NEVERENDING KNOT by Jodie Dalgleish
      • LEARNING TO WALK by Jodie Dalgleish
      • OVERSOUL by P.S. Lutz
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 3 >
      • MAP OF MEMORY by Jesse Schotter
      • BISMILLAH by Abby Minor
      • MICROMORTS by Veronica Tang
      • LOVE LETTER TO LANGUAGE: AN ABECEDARIAN by Saramanda Swigart
      • IF YOU WERE ALL WATER by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 2 >
      • CONTRA FORMALISME by Leland Seese
      • DRUNKEN MAN ON A BICYCLE by Dan Butterworth
      • WOLF TICKETS THROUGH THE FERAL WINTER by Kirk Marshall
      • SYLVANUS, BARD by Marc Lerner
      • THE LOOKING GLASS OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM by Frank Meola
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 1 >
      • INTIMATE THINGS by Laylage Courie
      • A SERIES OF PUNCTUATION by Hajar Hussaini
      • ROT AND GLORIANA by Laurel Miram
      • BLUES ON RED by Elie Doubleday
      • MY FICTION: REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF WORK by Richard Kostelanetz
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      • ENDNOTES FOR AN ALLOCUTION by Peter Freund
      • UKEMI (and other poems) by Nicole Vento
      • MEMORANDUM ON DESIRE by Laylage Courie
      • THE HOLYWOOD DEUTERONOMY by Jim Shankman
      • AT THE MAD HATTER-MARCH HARE ART GALLERY (and other poems) by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 3 >
      • THE MACHINE, STOLEN FIRE, and PERFORMANCE by Vivek Narayan
      • FIRST FRUITS by Stephen Massimilla
      • ONCE UPON A TOMORROW-TIME by Christopher Routheut
      • YIELD LIGHT OF WAY by Ken Goodman
      • SEVEN TALES by Sara Streett
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      • THE PUNCH-CARD CIPHERS by DF Short
      • SHE WAS THE FIRST TO GIVE A TOAST by Kelli Russell Agodon
      • HABLU L-WARIDI by Jesse Hilson
      • THE KEY TO DREAMS by Sean S. Bentley
      • SOFA, SO GOOD, SORT OF by Remy Ngamije
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 1 >
      • STAMPING THE DEAD by Habib Mohana
      • LEGS by A. Joachim Glage
      • I THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX by Heikki Huotari
      • LUŽÁNKY by V.B. Borjen
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        • TALES UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN by Devon Ortega
        • WAKE UP by JayJay Conrad
        • AMONG THE MEN IS APRIL by Logo Wei
        • SWEET by Melinda Giordano
        • BLACK ROSES by Osamase Ekhator
        • MEET ME TONIGHT ON METAPHOR STREET by Vivek Narayan
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 3 >
        • MENAGE A TROIS, WITH HORSE by Don Dussault
        • THE BLACK by Ben Colandrea
        • BLUE SKY LANGUAGE by Christien Gholson
        • UN DETECTIVE VIEJO by Franco Strong
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 2 >
        • THE CLEANSING by Linda Dennard
        • SHUFFLE by Debbie Fox
        • DID YOU FALL OR RISE FROM THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING? by M. Ann Reed
        • THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE PORNQUEEN by Omar Sabbagh
        • KIGALI MEMORIAL by Carlos Andres Gomez
        • PANTOUM OF THE MEAT by Ouita Rogers
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        • HOW TO WRITE A BIOGRAPHY by Joanne B. Mulcahy
        • PROTOCOL NINE-NINE-NINE-NINE by Kenneth Hanes
        • LESS' MORE by TWIXT
        • POINTLESS MR. PROBST by Beatriz Seelaender
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        • SYLVAN PASSAGES by Dan Wood
        • SISTER ALONE by Janet M Powers
        • CENTURY 2.1 by Alan Flurry
        • CLAIMED BY THE SEA by Sam Reese
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        • CROSSHATCHING by M.K. Rainey
        • LULLABY by Barbara Daddino
        • HOUSEMOUTH (and other poems) by Anhvu Buchanan and Brent Piller
        • THE RESIDUE IN PUBLIC TEA AND COFFEE CUPS by V.B. Borjen
        • SYZYGY (and other poems) by Malorie Seeley-Sherwood
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        • DRAGONFLIES: A DISCOURSE ON ANXIETY by Lara Lillibridge
        • AND RICHARD BURBAGE ALSO HAD A SISTER by Freya Shipley
        • THE WATCHERS by M.K. Rainey
        • JAZZ INTERACTION WITH SYMBOLS by Sarah T.
        • SPIDER (and other poems) by Natalie Crick
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        • MAPS by Susan Brennan
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        • WHAT THE LIVING DO by Susan Wadds
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        • SUSURROS DE RECURRENCIA by Franco Strong
        • THE OLD MAN by Sarah T.
        • PERMUTATIONS by Laura Cesarco Eglin
        • WORLD PEACE 3 by Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca
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        • LITTLE GHOST by Danny Judge
        • THE LAST ALLUSIONIST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • CHURCH by Diana McClure
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        • DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS by Nancy Flynn
        • WHAT I COULDN'T SAY by Erika Ranee & Diana McClure
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        • BRASS TYRANT AND THE AMERICAN THIRST by Kirk Marshall
        • LADY KILLER by Monika Viola
        • THE RIBBONS by Ferguson Williams
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        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT 2 - Part 1) by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • NEW AGE UNCAGED by Frank Light
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        • THE TRIALS OF TOBIT by Joseph Lisowski
        • LIKE MANY GIANT FOOTPRINTS (and other poems) by William Doreski
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT I) by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 4 >
        • WARDENCLIFF by Barbara Daddino
        • BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY by Reg Darling
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (LIBRETTO) by Sakina B. Fakhri
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        • TWEETY BIRD'S GRACE by Diana McClure
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