800 YEARS

disenthralled

SPECIAL ISSUE #2: Poetry is all but finished. Stunning. This came about because I was receiving some great poems, but either didn't have room in the current/upcoming regular issues or they didn't quite fit what I had assembled. The line-up includes Kristen Michelle Håvet (Special Issue #1), Salvatore Buttaci, Lynn Alexander, Howie Good, Carla Criscuolo and Robert Crisman. Photography by Anna Szczekutowicz. Here's a snippet from "To Kim," by Robert Crisman:

I hit those indifferent rocks down below
left shards of bone that the rats wouldn’t touch
I relearned to walk
through the Bonneville Salt Flats
It took me 800 years…

I know, man. I know. Robert's poem is the first I chose for the Special. He will also have a short story in Issue #3/December 15, 2009.

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I wrote and submitted a poem the other day to a fledgling magazine. The first thing I'd submitted in two months. Publishing disenthralled has been more satisfying than I imagined. I'm still writing every day (see "i carry your heart" at right), but have no interest in seeing my own work published at the moment.

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If you haven't been following Jodi MacArthur lately, you're missing out. Jodi is my favorite practicing horror writer. I really can't say enough....

Fiction Writer--Jodi MacArthur

DISENTHRALLED #2

It's up now. Go check it out....

Issue #2

Comments appreciated, as always.


Walter

I CARRY YOUR HEART

I've started collecting my new, daily twitter serial at the url below....

i carry your heart

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disenthralled issue #2 goes up tomorrow. If you missed the debut, this is a literary journal I'm doing with photographer Paul Dutra. There's a link on the sidebar. Be sure to check out Special #1, as well.

SHOOT, IF YOU MUST

I have a poem called "Walking the Halls" in Shoots and Vines #4, recalling one of the most important and unforgettable nights of my life:

SHOOTS & VINES #4


I also have a 100-word abomination, "John Denver's Head Ate My Grandmother," in MUST #7. You can read the collected material from MUST's #1-#7 here:

Collected MUST

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This weekend, I'm putting together disenthralled issue #2 and a rough draft of a straight-poetry special that may go up Dec 1, 2009.

ARKANSAS/GLOSSOLALIA

disenthralled SPECIAL #1, now up, features the story "Arkansas" by Kristen Michelle Håvet, with photography by Paul Dutra. As always, comments appreciated....

Read SPECIAL ISSUE #1: Kristen Michelle Håvet

I finally started using my twitter account. Look for the blockbuster premiere-sized crowds, then head the opposite direction and ask the first person you'd rather not talk to how to find pitchbrite.



I also have some flash fiction in the new issue of Glossolalia. Check it out here:

GLOSSOLALIA FLASH