Onward Christian Scanners
Imagine if Cronenberg had written and directed The Exorcist. In it, Father Damien Karras is not a psy- chiatrist but a psychic, capable of reading thoughts and moving objects with merely his mind. This...
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Read [an archived version of] “Skeeter” — a short-short “clickable” story posted to [the now defunct] Tapestry. I wrote this goofy thing by messing around on an ipad. Tapestry files were “sequential”...
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AVENGER – my Peter Gabriel-inspired crime poem for 30 Days of the 5-2
AVENGER I know something about opening pimpers and whores I know how to kill quietly and mop up bloody wooden floors I know how to hide body parts behind my cabinets and drawers Clipping the strippers...
View ArticleOne Moment Please: A Flash Fiction
Read [an archived version of] “One Moment Please” — a short-short “clickable” story posted to [the now defunct] Tapestry. Tapestry files were “sequential” stories. To read, click on the screen to...
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the severed hand speaks
“Grawl” by Michael Arnzen when it first crawled the stump stung but it realized somewhere within the ring of bottomless pain at its base that it was feeling and because it was feeling it was thinking...
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Iambic Pentagrameter – a sicilian quintain
Iambic Pentagrameter we gather up the sacrificial goats twisting heads to face the sky above we snick our razors quick across their throats wringing necks to squeeze out all the blood naked in the mud...
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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Undead
Use the “cold activated” Coors beer bottle as a body temperature probe. Make them run to the hills, where the air is even thinner. Visit all those new head shops downtown, seeking fresh brains. Eat...
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At the Nightsun writing conference in Frostburg, MD, last weekend, I had the privilege of performing a reading of fiction and poetry. Here’s an audio clip from the event, along with the text for one of...
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Life is a Poem
This poem got a lot of attention on twitter today, so I thought I’d embed it here for posterity. #PoemYourLifelife is a poemthat does not rhyme;so poems existto organize time– free verse wants to be...
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The Gobbling
THE GOBBLING It was a normal Thanksgiving meal like any other, until I heard the gobbling from the kitchen, where my mother was checking on a pie. The sound refused to cease. One by one my family...
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Five More Ways I’d Prefer Not to Die
Available in Paperback! This past fall, one of my favorite releases was 555 Vol. 2: This Head, These Limbs, put out by Carrion Blue 555. Every story in this book is 55 words a piece; every author in...
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Can’t Fight This Feeding
I can’t fight this feeding any longer And yet I’m still afraid to let it show What started out as small waist, has grown larger I only wish they made much bigger burritos I belt myself but I can’t hold...
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Joltober 2018
I often intermittently post dark poetry and sick “very short stories” (sometimes called #vss) on social media, but to celebrate Halloween season this year, I’ve decided to post a new “jolt” each day...
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Filing Jointly — a tax crime poem for 30 Days of The 5-2
Filing Jointly No matter what the Fed says, we always put the tax deadline in the calendar on the 14th so it sounds like a Valentine’s Day date to review our year in April. This year is special...
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