LIONTAMER'S BLUES

I have a small something in this HOUSEFIRE FORTUNE TELLER: THE TEMPERAMENTAL DANCE. This isn’t the fortune teller I remember from grade school; this one here is rigged to explode.

Download, fold, and amaze people before you kidnap them or take their shoes. Tell them Housefire is back.

SEE: THE TEMPERAMENTAL DANCE (plus instructions)

VIA Housefire:

“Friends, we could not be more thrilled to bring you MAGGIE IS THE ONLY GIRL WHO LIVES WITH US NOW, a beautiful hybrid of poetry and prose by David Tomaloff. Creepy in all the right places.”

Thanks, Robert Duncan Gray & the whole HF crew!

See: HOUSEFIRE

Last week was a good week for poems I wrote, and here’s why:

1. Find out what it takes to make a mockingbird come undone: My poem ODE TO OUR MARKS YOURS &MINE is up at HOUSEFIRE.

2. No wikipedians were injured in the making of these poems: 3 featured in the Ten Pages Press Reader V2 (one at the site, two more in the reader).

see: HOUSEFIRE
see: The Ten Pages Press Reader #2

HOUSEFIRE has published an erasure piece I did for them, of which I am particularly fond: THE BRIDE ATLANTIS. Please have a look at it if you have the time. Thanks to the whole HF family, and especially, to Maurice Burford for the wild prompt that made this possible.

see: HOUSEFIRE
see the original text HERE

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.”

Lots of stuff to read!

Issue 15 of the always superb MUD LUSCIOUS includes my piece, COMPLEX MACHINERY, as well as work by many other fantastic writers such as Helen Vitoria. Read it! My thanks to editors J. A. Tyler and Andrew Borgstrom (whose works you should be reading as well)!

The wildly insane HOUSEFIRE has published my piece, WE SLEEP INSIDE IF WE SLEEP AT ALL. Don’t miss my bio there, written by Riley Michael Parker. As usual, it’s a great piece of writing all by itself. Thanks, Riley!

Don’t miss the stellar fifth issue of THUNDERCLAP, which includes my two poems, WORDS, and STIPULATION CLAUSE, RAPUNZEL_MOREOVER, as well as incredible works by many others such as Len Kuntz, Parker Tettleton, Sheldon Lee Compton, Bill Yarrow, and Scott Alexander Jones. There are just so many, I can’t list them all! Thanks Amanda, and thank you, Robert Vaughan!

see: MUD LUSCIOUS (Issue 15)
see: HOUSEFIRE
see: Thunderclap! (Issue 5)