Gray Flag #5

Gray Flag zine is a compilation of journal entries Chris Auman wrote as a part of the Story Workshop Method of Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago in the early 90s.

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Specs.

4.125″ x 5.875″ 28 pages, color cover, b&w throughout, stapled, 100 lb paper, 110 lb

Intro to Gray Flag #5

This is the end of Gray Flag. Five years and five issues ago, I was looking at the half-century mark of my time on this planet. That’s when I first started digging through the two notebooks that would be the main source for this series. Now, I’m staring down double nickels and it’s time to move on.

Most of the pieces collected here are from those notebooks. They were written for classes I took while a writing student at Columbia College Chicago in the early 1990s. Two selections are columns I wrote for the school paper (I was reading a lot of HST, btw). Most entries are scraps of ideas, like sawdust on the shop floor, only good as mulch to help something grow. A few did grow into something. Most did not. Some ended up in the pages of Gray Flag, and maybe that’s where they were always meant to be. Whatever their fate, they were valuable as learning exercises, and now here they are for my amusement, and maybe yours too. — February, 2025