Sore (Issue No. 9 - January 1, 2000) (Zine)

A left-stapled zine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 40 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Introduction ("A new century brings a new issue of SORE"); In the Middle by Taylor Ball ("It felt good to be sitting between them. I always liked to sit in the middle. It felt comfortable, and nice. She was on my left, and he was on my right. And that's how everyone wanted it to be. There was a movie showing about twenty rows in front of us. Its terrible plot providing perfectly for me to ignore it and think to myself how much I liked sitting there"); Jason's Column by Jason Happy Goat ("Redemption never seems to come when I feel I need it"); Life Through the Eyes of Andrew: Yet Another Article About Prejudice by Andrew ("editor of Birth Control 'zine"); Without Your Life You're Dead by Zach Savich ("The worst feeling is to be sitting in your third period English class watching the medics run by outside, and have a kid you don't really know come back from the bathroom and say, 'It's Jason. He overdosed'"); Cara's Corner by Cara Alwill (topic: Menace to Society - "In general, the purpose of the media is to serve as a fundamental source for providing knowledge to the public about the current happenings in the world. But when do these story-happy journalists and news reporters go too far? When are they telling us too much for our own good?"); Zine Reviews by Taylor Ball; Boys Will Be Boys by Mikey Odeh ("For a while I thought maybe I was too nice. Now I see that I'm not"); 'Angst by Special Ed ("The fall days passed by like minutes. As the season sucked the chlorophyll out of the leaves, school seemed to be sucking the life out of him"); rock band ads throughout.…