BLOOD-BOUGHT SON has been added to the Candy Sangria website. This one originally appeared in Shoots & Vines Issue #3 (there's a link to S&V on the sidebar).
Read:
BLOOD-BOUGHT SON
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
GIVE (BUBBLE WRAP RE-MIX)
Two poems for women who fascinate me (one I've known for over half my life; the other, only a brief time, but she's made quite an impact).
BITCHCRAFT is up at Censored Poets. Written for Janelle Rene, co-founder of real-life group Bitchcraft. This site publishes work that ranges from quiet introspection to Live Nude Grand Guignol. My poem is not X-Rated (more like a WTF/PG), but please keep in mind that freedom of speech is the rule of the day here:
BITCHCRAFT
The other, SMASH, will appear in Issue #105 of Gloom Cupboard. No set date, but it should be up in a week or so.
BITCHCRAFT is up at Censored Poets. Written for Janelle Rene, co-founder of real-life group Bitchcraft. This site publishes work that ranges from quiet introspection to Live Nude Grand Guignol. My poem is not X-Rated (more like a WTF/PG), but please keep in mind that freedom of speech is the rule of the day here:
BITCHCRAFT
The other, SMASH, will appear in Issue #105 of Gloom Cupboard. No set date, but it should be up in a week or so.
Monday, August 24, 2009
SUNSHINE MAKES ME CRY
A couple things to add this week:
WALKING THE HALLS, a poem, will be in Shoots and Vines #4. Sometime in October, I think. This explores one of a half-dozen memories that have haunted me throughout my life. The experience was somewhat terrifying, on the surface, but also allowed me to glimpse the potential range of hope, love and tenderness in the human heart.
WHERE WE ARE NOT, a poem, will appear in the October issue of Full of Crow Poetry. A gorgeous site. Poetry that reminds you of why you wanted to write in the first place (what the hell am I doing there?). I'll have three pieces in their Fall Fiction Quarterly, out around the same time.
JOHN DENVER'S HEAD ATE MY GRANDMOTHER....It's okay, I'll give you a second to read that again....will be in a microzine called MUST #7, published by the Sphere, an online collective of writers, artists, photographers, etc. Not a poem. A short, ummm....Anyway, the editors at MUST are swamped, but it may come out in September.
WALKING THE HALLS, a poem, will be in Shoots and Vines #4. Sometime in October, I think. This explores one of a half-dozen memories that have haunted me throughout my life. The experience was somewhat terrifying, on the surface, but also allowed me to glimpse the potential range of hope, love and tenderness in the human heart.
WHERE WE ARE NOT, a poem, will appear in the October issue of Full of Crow Poetry. A gorgeous site. Poetry that reminds you of why you wanted to write in the first place (what the hell am I doing there?). I'll have three pieces in their Fall Fiction Quarterly, out around the same time.
JOHN DENVER'S HEAD ATE MY GRANDMOTHER....It's okay, I'll give you a second to read that again....will be in a microzine called MUST #7, published by the Sphere, an online collective of writers, artists, photographers, etc. Not a poem. A short, ummm....Anyway, the editors at MUST are swamped, but it may come out in September.
Friday, August 21, 2009
BEETLE AND BARDS
What does it mean when you get nicer comments on rejection slips than you do on acceptance letters? I think the market for my work--not the silly bits I write for fun, but that which springs from my heart--is a tiny thing that scuttles when uncovered and often gets away before I can sink the pin. It's my choice to write what I want, not what is expected. If someone tells me he loved a piece or that it touched him deeply in some strange way, but that it isn't quite right for him, I've already accomplished what I set out to do.
The Liar's League is a group of British actors who record themselves reading short stories at live, monthly events. I learned yesterday that my story, KICK HEAD KIMBERLY, is on a short list of works which have divided the judges. I absolutely love the idea of an actor reading something I wrote to a room full of people, with half of them clapping and the other half yelling Oh, come on....
Doesn't "Beetle and Bards" sound like a brand of wine cooler?
The Liar's League is a group of British actors who record themselves reading short stories at live, monthly events. I learned yesterday that my story, KICK HEAD KIMBERLY, is on a short list of works which have divided the judges. I absolutely love the idea of an actor reading something I wrote to a room full of people, with half of them clapping and the other half yelling Oh, come on....
Doesn't "Beetle and Bards" sound like a brand of wine cooler?
Monday, August 17, 2009
VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
VIOLENCE UNSILENCED
Testimonies/Q&A/Resources by and for women who have survived abuse. There is a permanent link on the sidebar under Online Reading List. A necessary and invaluable website.
Testimonies/Q&A/Resources by and for women who have survived abuse. There is a permanent link on the sidebar under Online Reading List. A necessary and invaluable website.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
FIVE FOR FALL/BUFFALOE GALS
Crystal Folz of SHOOTS AND VINES is going to publish five new poems of mine as her November Minizine, which is mailed out and hand-distributed to bookstores, coffee shops, etc. This is an honor. I don't feel at home in too many places, but I do at S&V.
Crystal posts some great writing and photography at her online mag:
SHOOTS AND VINES
She's also working on a chapbook with Julie Buffaloe-Yoder, who will make you shout out loud. Go here and read:
SUPERMAN PART II
Then read it again.
Update on the Dark Crime Anthology: The deadline has been extended, which means not enough writers are interested or the stories they've received aren't quite doing it for them. Haven't heard anything yet....
Crystal posts some great writing and photography at her online mag:
SHOOTS AND VINES
She's also working on a chapbook with Julie Buffaloe-Yoder, who will make you shout out loud. Go here and read:
SUPERMAN PART II
Then read it again.
Update on the Dark Crime Anthology: The deadline has been extended, which means not enough writers are interested or the stories they've received aren't quite doing it for them. Haven't heard anything yet....
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
TANGLED UP IN RED
I have a Candy Sangria story, BLOOD-BOUGHT SON, in the new issue of Shoots and Vines. You can read it online at:
Shoots and Vines Issue #3
Or order a print copy at:
Shoots and Vines online
($2 to cover S&H--this is a labor of love for publisher Crystal Folz)
Either way, read the Editor's Note and make sure you check out the rest of the mag.
Shoots and Vines Issue #3
Or order a print copy at:
Shoots and Vines online
($2 to cover S&H--this is a labor of love for publisher Crystal Folz)
Either way, read the Editor's Note and make sure you check out the rest of the mag.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
SEASON OF THE WITCHES
A new poem, THE WITCH, is going to appear in a book called The Silkworm Vol.4, and another, A NIGHT IN, will be in the next issue of Absent Cause Magazine. I'll post more info when they come out.
A NIGHT IN was written after reading a blog post by a writer I really enjoy (see Quin Browne's links in the Online Reading List). She riffed on three words as an exercise in flash fiction. I decided to give it a shot and came up with this tale of obsession, lost identity and homespun Lovecraftian magic. I don't know, either. Somebody take me out for a piece of pie....
Update on Full of Crow: Amanda 1-3 are going up in the Fall Fiction Quarterly at Full of Crow, October 1, 2009. Thought it was September for some reason.
A NIGHT IN was written after reading a blog post by a writer I really enjoy (see Quin Browne's links in the Online Reading List). She riffed on three words as an exercise in flash fiction. I decided to give it a shot and came up with this tale of obsession, lost identity and homespun Lovecraftian magic. I don't know, either. Somebody take me out for a piece of pie....
Update on Full of Crow: Amanda 1-3 are going up in the Fall Fiction Quarterly at Full of Crow, October 1, 2009. Thought it was September for some reason.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
MODERN FOLK ANTI-HEROINE
JANEY APPLESEED (A mostly-true story) is up at the 6S Ning network and also over at Black. The commericial was for baby food.
B E L I E V E
B E L I E V E
Saturday, August 1, 2009
TWO FOR TODAY
EMOTIONHAUSEN, a poem, went up today at Danse Macabre XXVI/Stonewall.
EMOTIONHAUSEN
EIGHT, a vignette, is up at Issue #102 of Gloom Cupboard.
EIGHT
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This morning, I submitted a long, uncharactestically gruesome crime story to a "dark crime" anthology. I'm a big proponent of suggestion--coercing the reader to supply his own detail in a way that evokes the strongest and most personal reaction--but the crime scene in this one broke the Splat-O-Meter.
I also submitted a trio of flash pieces to Glossolalia, a great online magazine. This past winter, they printed "Liar," by Crystal Folz, which is the best thing I've read online this year. Go read it. Now...
LIAR by Crystal Folz
There's something else I'm forgetting to do. I just know it.
EMOTIONHAUSEN
EIGHT, a vignette, is up at Issue #102 of Gloom Cupboard.
EIGHT
_____
This morning, I submitted a long, uncharactestically gruesome crime story to a "dark crime" anthology. I'm a big proponent of suggestion--coercing the reader to supply his own detail in a way that evokes the strongest and most personal reaction--but the crime scene in this one broke the Splat-O-Meter.
I also submitted a trio of flash pieces to Glossolalia, a great online magazine. This past winter, they printed "Liar," by Crystal Folz, which is the best thing I've read online this year. Go read it. Now...
LIAR by Crystal Folz
There's something else I'm forgetting to do. I just know it.
RECAP: JUNE - AUGUST 1, 2009
[Following is a list of work published or accepted this summer, with links to online pieces and titles of upcoming print material in the sidebar at right. It's been five years since I withdrew from the entertainment world. I'm up from underground, but only nibbling at the edge of the field--because that's where the really interesting stuff grows.]
August 1, 2009
EMOTIONHAUSEN, poem, at Danse Macabre's Stonewall Issue
EIGHT, flash fiction, at Gloom Cupboard
July 2009
MY MOTHER IS NOT MY MOM, flash fiction, at The Flash Fiction Offensive
BANK, flash, at Six Sentences
AMANDA 1-3, poetry and prose, to appear in the Fall Fiction Issue of Full of Crow
BLOOD-BOUGHT SON, short story, to appear in Shoots and Vines Magazine, due early August (print)
THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTED, poem, to appear in Issue #6 of The Stray Branch Literary Magazine (print)
GONE, poem, to appear in Deborah Simpson's Anthology of Supernatural Poetry (print)
June 2009
BADDERLANDS, short story, at A Twist of Noir
CANDY SANGRIA, flash, at Powder Burn Flash
LAST STOP, DULLSVILLE, short story, at A Twist of Noir
August 1, 2009
EMOTIONHAUSEN, poem, at Danse Macabre's Stonewall Issue
EIGHT, flash fiction, at Gloom Cupboard
July 2009
MY MOTHER IS NOT MY MOM, flash fiction, at The Flash Fiction Offensive
BANK, flash, at Six Sentences
AMANDA 1-3, poetry and prose, to appear in the Fall Fiction Issue of Full of Crow
BLOOD-BOUGHT SON, short story, to appear in Shoots and Vines Magazine, due early August (print)
THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTED, poem, to appear in Issue #6 of The Stray Branch Literary Magazine (print)
GONE, poem, to appear in Deborah Simpson's Anthology of Supernatural Poetry (print)
June 2009
BADDERLANDS, short story, at A Twist of Noir
CANDY SANGRIA, flash, at Powder Burn Flash
LAST STOP, DULLSVILLE, short story, at A Twist of Noir
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