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  • Spiral: BULL #13: for the longjohns

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    BULL published one of my favorite works, Spiral, one I thought would be unpublishable, due to the many many instances of colorful descriptions of the penis of an old man, including the line “arched like Gonzo’s nose over my bulbous balls.” Goddamn was that story fun to write. BULL is one of the most fearless…

  • The Almost: Gutter Magazine

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    Read “The Almost” in the latest issue of Gutter, Scotland’s leading literary magazine. From the issue’s editorial: “A literary truth: reading gifts us new ways to write, and speak, and read, and live. To engage with the written work of others is to be changed by something intangible but essential: intertextuality. The space between texts…

  • Up the Staircase Quarterly: The tomatoes had gone

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    Thank you to Up the Staircase Quarterly for publishing “The tomatoes had gone” in their Winter Issue (#72) alongside the illustration “Rooster of Peace” by Ukrainian artist Josephine Florens (below. ) The tomatoes had gone all fallen, puckered,slick lipstick post-ripe redand I gather them anyway in my green plastic tote. Blue rubber bootson wet pine…

  • Turn and Work: I Like Being Far Away

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    I wrapped myself in a towel and got in the bed between the comforter and the topsheet. He looked over at me from his side of the bed. “My sister worked at a motel, I don’t think they usually wash these things,” he said, lifting up a corner of the comforter, sniffing it and saying…

  • Luna Station Quarterly: To Bethany, With Teeth.

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    To Bethany, with Teeth: A tale of abuse and retribution set in a world where witchcraft is a science, where hexes and spells are available to anyone willing to expend a little patience and effort. I am really struggling with a synopsis for this one. I’ll just post an excerpt and tell you that you…

  • Stuff in the queue.

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    Waiting for these pieces to show their ugly faces in early 2025: Magazine1: Saw Palm, a poem about a field of Saw Palmetto and the creatures that lurk within, featuring experimental imagery and vernacular that only a Sarasota-based magazine could understand. Illustrated Worlds Magazine: A reprint of The Scavenger. Or, technically, a print? The Scavenger…