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Summer stews you. 


It ignites and excites.  It heats and depletes.  Point is, we're susceptible to strange ways during these dog days.  The latest crop of RQ content features folks pushed to the brink -- if not by the heat, then by some other insistent force (the desire for perpetual passion, for example, or not to have your stuff mooched by hippies).  Jump into the pressure cooker and enjoy.  Also, start planning for the second annual StorySpark festival, coming to downtown Raleigh via SparkCon in September (still hot, but less mind melting).  

Sign up for the Right Quick Raleigh Quarterly newsletter below and every couple of weeks we'll refresh you like a warm breeze.  Not that we'll be happy all the time.  It's allergy season, too.  Mucus makes us so morose.

As always, don't forget to pick up the inaugural print edition of the RQ at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, the Regulator in Durham and through Etsy.com. And don't forget to keep coming back to RaleighQuarterly.com. We're always adding something worth seeing. There, not a single typo.

WHO IS BIG BEARD???

He's been illustrated by artists around the country. He's got his own book.  He's been spotted playing cowbell with Kid Rock.  Who IS this scalawag?

All will be revealed shortly, matey.  For now, know that Big Beard is the troubled little brother of the rascal, Black Beard.  And that he's at the center of a terrific adventure featuring writers, artists, the Royal Navy and a possible case of scurvy.  And that there's a preview right here of the story and its illustrations.  Enjoy!  (And while you're at it, hand over your jewelry, moneys and any heavily salted treats!)


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