LIONTAMER'S BLUES

Friends: Banango Street #4. Me. You. Monsters. Alligators. People in suitcases. The works. Come & see how all of this relates to people like Robert Kloss, John Vanderslice, & the Constantines.

Also, see new work by: Melissa Broder, Lisa Marie Basile, Brian Oliu, Rebecca Bornstein, F Daniel Rzicznek, James Tadd Adcox, Caroline Crew, Theadora Siranian, Joshua Amses, Leora Fridman, J.D. Sommer, Sarah Jean Alexander, Juliet Childers, Matthew Drew Williams, Alexander J. Allison, and Kat Dixon, with art by Andrew James Weatherhead.

Meg Tuite & the Connotation-Press An Online-Artifact were kind enough to make me their mid-month fiction feature with five pieces & an interview. I tell the whole internet things like,“In the winter, people look at me like I have just pulled down my pants & my dick is made of spiders because ‘iced tea in the winter?’” & “Mostly I poke the dirt with a stick & wait for it to move.” All true. Come hang!

See: CONNOTATION PRESS MID-MONTH FICTION FEATURE

Everyone, I’m excited to be a part of this limited edition print project from Connotation Press. Details VIA Meg Tuite:

“Smoking Mirrors” is now available for pre-order and will be shipped out on March 10th. It is a limited signed edition so place your orders to ensure you will get a copy! The artist is Matthew Tuite and 17 writers wrote stories/poems inspired by the art. The writers are: Robert Vaughan, Len Kuntz, Ryan W. Bradley, Tara Laskowski, David Tomaloff, Michelle Messina Reale, Gregory Sherl, Kristine Ong Muslim, Eryk Wenziak, Nicolette Wong, Corey Zeller, Joseph Quintela, Frank Reardon, Nicelle Davis, Kona Morris, Mary Stone Dockery and Meg Tuite. It’s a beautiful hand-stitched book with the brilliant artwork of Matt and exceptional writing! Get your copy now!”

SEE: SMOKING MIRRORS at CONNOTATION PRESS

Meg Tuite recently invited me to take a part in her new column at Used Furniture Review, Exquisite Duet. Come & see how Mary Stone Dockery & I build two kinds of fire using a single tiny match.

SEE: EXQUISITE DUET at USED FURNITURE REVIEW

Beach Sloth rocks the hardest lit reviews. Ever. Here’s what Beachy had to say about IN THOSE DAYS WE, which I am particularly thrilled to be a part of.

SEE: BEACH SLOTH TAKES ON EVERYBODY

“David Tomaloff crushes it into a complete and thorough ending. He follows a dragonfly. Death surrounds him.” –Beach Sloth on my piece in the NAP LOG anthology. I think.

SEE: TALKING BEACH SLOTH NAP LOG BLUES

In which I am a mythical beast who wanders the unruly expanses of Wisconsin wilderness, Colonel Kurtz to Ben Tanzer’s Captain Willard, riffing over Andrew Zawacki’s Georgia. Ben asked me to contribute a piece to his excellent series as So New | Necessary Fiction’s Writer in Residence, about something that has changed my life along the way as an artist. Thanks, Ben!

SEE: WHEREIN THE AUTHOR IS RIFFING ON GEORGIA, BUT HE IS NEITHER RIDING A MIDNIGHT TRAIN NOR TALKING ‘BOUT A RAINY NIGHT

I have a visual art/poemy-lettery thing that I’d pulled up from out of the dirt by its short, sticky pixels published in the epistolary issue of Short, Fast &Deadly. Many thanks to Joseph A. W. Quintela for once again giving me the opportunity to explore the outer regions.

SEE: DEAR TENANTS IN ROOM 16

I have a word thing in the new issue of Heavy Feather Review (1.2), which is jam-packed with a gang of fantastic names & even more fantastic pieces, among which I am too proud for words to be included.

The issue is $2.99 for PDF, Kindle, or Nook format, and a one-year subscription is a whopping $5.00. Seriously, HFR has got to be one of the best new jams out there, & I suspect it will only get better with age.

Support a great journal! Thanks, Nathan and Jason!

SEE: HEAVY FEATHER REVIEW 1.2

My piece RIVERS LIKE DAYS, & HOW THEY BEGIN FIRST WITH END has been published in the most excellent new issue of Scissors and Spackle. Thanks, guest editor Joani Reese for including my words among those of many friends and fantastic writers.

SEE: SCISSORS AND SPACKLE

That’s right HERE.

But Formspring.
Have we talked about this, TUMBLR?
I don’t want to keep things from you.

Go there, read, & click on my name to catch up.

Good Saturday, all! 

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.

see: FLASH FICTION FRIDAYS

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