EATING IT

It began with a short story, a group of poems. A passing glance. Gentle brush of fabric in the stairwell. Over the holidays, then, an impromptu celebration, out-of-the-way cloakroom, awkward but well-intentioned fumbling in the dark. I awoke a Contributing Editor at Full of Crow:

FULL OF CROW

MY SUPER-SEXY PAGE @ FULL OF CROW

First up will be Winter 2010 MiCrow Flash. I worked with Lynn Alexander, compiling and organizing material, seeking permission to use photographs. It should be out within the next week or so. For this one, I hopped on the merry-go-round as it was already spinning.

I will most likely be handling the Summer 2010 edition. I've also been kicking suspicious packages into the other departments and have initiated one new project, with ideas for several more.

I have asked a dear, dear woman to helm disenthralled for me, beginning in late spring. I will still be involved. Details are to be worked out as we come to them. Those of you who know me also know that I don't plan out much of anything; a deadline appears and I meet it, as best I can.

This move will free me up as both a writer and editor.

That's why.

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Next up for me, a short at Dogzplot and poem at the Bloody Bridge Review. I've also been talking to Crystal Folz about doing a full poetry chapbook for Backpack Press--which will be my first sizeable collection ever.

GAZING AND GLAZED

I have a new poem called "miss vengen at the social" up today at DANSE MACABRE:

MEET MISS VENGEN

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I'm putting together the next issue of disenthralled this weekend.

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And I'm taking applications for someone who can talk me out of what I really want.

WHAT IS GOING ON, HERE?

I have a little bit of roadside flash called "Miss October" in the February issue of Negative Suck and highly recommend that you read the piece which follows mine, by Lynn Kinsey:

MISS OCTOBER @ Jeffrey S. Callico's Negative Suck.


I also recommend the following story by Richard Godwin:

LUNCH WITH BELLA @ Word Catalyst Magazine.

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There is no Special this week at disenthralled, although there are two (or more) presently in the works. The next regular issue is scheduled for February 15. The tentative rundown: Issue #5, Collaborative Fiction Special, Theater Special, Noir Special. The last mentioned will also introduce a monthly serial by Paul D. Brazill. I may sneak another poetry issue in there if I can, as well. The regular issues will most likely resume after the Noir Special in April.

MiCrow Winter 2010: All of the pieces are in the box and await careful assembly. Won't be long. Something a little different for me. I'm already eager to begin work on the summer edition.

I have a few more pieces to get for my Full of Crow/disenthralled e-book. Flash, nano and photography.

I think that's it for now. Probably not, but it makes me feel good to say it....

WATCH YOUR MOUTH

PRINCES, my first piece for A Twist of Noir since last June, went up today:

Read PRINCES

For the badass Miss Alister, whose writing knocks me out.

THIS ISN'T ABOUT "SEVEN OF NINE"

My first piece for Blink-Ink, "The End of Seven," is up:

THE END OF SEVEN

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Sarah Bloom, of disenthralled/Special #3, needs your votes. Click on the fifth star:

SARAH BLOOM RULES

ROCK-A-BYE, MY BABY

disenthralled #4 is up. Makes me want to get arrested in a border town, maybe whacked in the head with a metal flashlight.

This one features Michael J. Solender, Mark Joseph Kiewlak, Townsend Walker, Nora Ibsen, offbeatjim, Brittany Wallace, Robert Crisman, Michael D. Brown, AJ Dresser, Mary Mills, Richard Godwin.

And photography by Kristin Fouquet.

Read it HERE.

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I have a story called "On the Way to Merry Mills" in the new Clarity of Night contest....

MERRY MILLS


And a muted little horror story at 6S called "Walkawhile." Miles Davis on "Blackbird" muted....

WALKAWHILE

DRIVE

I have a little poem called MOUNTAIN in Gloom Cupboard #114

Read it HERE.

Kimo Temperance and I have stories up in the new Pulp Metal Magazine. Mine's the highway sketch I was playing with a month or two ago. It's the first time we've appeared together since the early comic book days (and always an honor for me)...

ROADIES

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Starting to put together disenthralled/Issue #4, collecting material for Issue #5 and the Noir special. Maybe more, in between, if I can work it out.