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FourStory is "fact-based housing advocacy with a human perspective," and with fiction and a manifesto. It reads in part:
This site had its genesis over a year ago with the idea a group of us had (after winning a quasi-legislative battle in Sacramento and several cocktails) that we should get together to form a housing advocacy group focusing on the regional issues peculiar to us in Southern California. We had a meeting....We'll aim to be the site of record where personal point of view prevails. We will feature in depth interview/discussions about the future of Southern California with people who can make a difference in the outcome. We will highlight art and artists. We'll include photography. Mostly we'll have great writing (including fiction) from talented and thoughtful (if currently underemployed) writers.
Those writers include Rebecca Schoenkopf of The District and formerly of OC Weekly. The editor is Nathan Walpow, an author and past president of the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Gary Phillips is contributing a serialized mystery, The Underbelly.