A short piece I wrote, GOODNIGHT BAD MORNING, which takes its title from a favorite song by the Kills, won the Press 53 53-Word Story contest this week. I’m certainly honored. Please head over and take a look. Thanks, Christine! And thanks, Meg Pokrass, for the prompt!
STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS, LIVE AT AWP CHICAGO
I had the pleasure of reading for Connotation Press at AWP in Chicago. Relive it with me; press play and let me read you a story about Ben Tanzer. Special thanks to Ken Robidoux, the Connotation Press crew, everyone who read and attended, and, of course, Ben Tanzer.
The new DOGZPLOT Ben Tanzer issue is alive and sexy: alive because it’s up, sexy because it’s Tanzer. Read my story, STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS, along with stories from favorites such as Ben, BL Pawelek, Ryan Bradley, Dave Housley, and Tom Williams. Thanks, Barry Graham!
My short story How We Lost the Children, One by One is included in Robert Vaughan’s excellent Flash Fiction Fridays anthology. The anthology recaps all of the stories read on WUWM’s Flash Fiction Fridays radio segment hosted by Robert Vaughan and Stephani Lecci. It’s a monster of a collection, and I’m just thrilled be a part of it. Thanks, Robert, for all of your support and everything you do.
That non-fiction piece I wrote about the time the sky came down to resurrect the body of Amelia Earhart is now live at In Between Altered States. Ok, you got me; it’s (mostly) fiction. Thanks Aleathia!
see: A WOMAN’S SHOE, AN EMPTY BOTTLE, A SEXTANT BOX
Photo Credit: Amelia Earhart. Courtesy of Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections.
I’m happy to have three pieces up at Nailpolish Stories today. Who knew exactly 25 words based on nailpolish colors could be so much fun? Thanks, Nicole!
see: NAILPOLISH STORIES
Happy Halloween, you boils and ghouls! I’m thrilled almost wordless to report that my latest e-chap, THIRTEEN, is available as a free download from Artistically Declined Press. Much gratitude to Ryan W. Bradley for throwing a right Halloween bash!
see: 13
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“IT’S JUST ANOTHER DAY,” Harry told himself. The elevator continued its blinding descent.
THE TRAIN PULLED AWAY from the station; he hadn’t noticed he’d stopped breathing.
Connotation Press was kind enough to publish 3 stories and an interview with me. Meg Tuite and I talked about process, electricity, Keith Richards, and the subversive nature of the prose poem. Also this month, you’ll find other great writers like Paul Scot August and Ryan W. Bradley, so check it out! Thanks, Meg and Ken! see: CONNOTATION PRESS
Short, Fast & Deadly has released another fantastic issue as well, which happens to include my poem, #14. Thanks for including me, Joseph! see: SHORT, FAST & DEADLY
Last but not least, Red Ceilings Press has posted 3 poems inspired by a call from Mark Cobley for work regarding “the edge of a sneeze.” Thanks, Mark! see: RED CEILINGS PRESS
My story, A BOX OF HOME, can be found in Episode 16 of the excellent In Between Altered States alongside the work of David Haase, Melanie Browne, Andrew J. Stone, James Kowalczyk, Kevin Ridgeway, Sherri Collins, and Editor Aleathea Drehmer. Check it out!
see: A BOX OF HOME
If you aren’t familiar with HOUSEFIRE PUBLISHING, you should be. Riley Michael Parker and Company are beating your kids up and bragging about it in the publishing sense; you might as well know your hooligans.
NOUNS OF ASSEMBLAGE is the new anthology featuring some of the best and brightest in indie lit. I’m proud to be counted among them with my story, A SLEUTH OF BEARS. The full list of authors with amaze you. If you like great words, you will love this book. Order it from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
HOUSEFIRE is also featuring hot, free bonus content from the book on their brand spankin’ new website, where you can find my poem, A PAIL OF WASPS, engaging in lewd and lascivious behavior with the rest of the arsonist brood.
“If you are the smell of candy and patience, I am the nuisance of a pail of wasps.”
New Wave Vomit has kindly published a new piece of mine titled, CHUPACABRA HUNTING. Let’s call it a bit of poetry, experimental fiction, non-fiction, and chat transcription all-in-one. This is to say it might or might not have actually taken place between and/or about people who might or might not actually exist. Wait, what? Thanks, Ana C!
see: CHUPACABRA HUNTING
HOUSEFIRE: DANCE MACABRE (a HOUSEFIRE chapbook)
DANCE MACABRE
by Robyn Bateman
and Megan Lent
and Willie Fitzgerald
and Yt Sumner
and Riley Michael Parker
and David Tomaloff
and Lindsay Allison Ruoff
and Kira Clark
and Kirsten Alene Pierce
and Matty Byloos
HOUSEFIRE has a new EXTREMELY LIMITED EDITION chapbook out that was inspired, front to back, by Stephen King - either his books, the films, his face, his ever-growing over-saturation, or what have you.
It’s small, and pretty, and packs a punch.
You can get your hands on this DRASTICALLY LIMITED EDITION chapbook one of three ways.
1. Be in Portland Oregon and go to Powell’s/Reading Frenzy/HOUSEFIRE/Small Doggies.
2. Send $5 (plus $2 S+H) as a check or money order to:
Colleen Rowley
2917 SE Hawthorne
Portland Oregon
97214
3. E.mail Riley at riley.michael.parker@gmail and he can give you a Paypal link.
Don’t kid yourself. You know you want this.xxxxxxx
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