#Streamworld serial 2. Marley & Kit take on Trashman #Cyberpunk #Deprivatization #Wiredlife #Megalopolis #Lowl1f3

The third of the stream world stories hit interweb stores this week.

Marley, the young forensic doctor, from "Marley and the Dead" sends her staff to research Trashman's tech in "Kit in the City. Marley and the Bosses." Yeah, I know. A dull title to say the least. I feel like I can divide my work in half--by great titles and functional titles.

Digressing...

Stream world takes place in megacities of the future. There is no privacy per se. One's cyber life is an open book if you choose to look. There is a low grade kind of telepathy among the educated, because your vitals are broadcast, as well as your email, and your social contacts, and your viewing habits. Citizens with medical backgrounds can read more than just your kinky browsing history.

The first of the stream stories to be published was: "The Play is the Thing" A love story, and an homage to Shakespeare.
Followed by "Marley & the Dead" A moody character driven piece that describes the Trashman's brutal MO.
Followed by "Kit in the City. Marley and the Bosses" A continuation of the Trashman story.

The fourth of the stream world stories will go live on Weasel Press in Feb 2017. "In Some Northern Town," flash fiction, recounts an older woman's public breakdown when she kidnaps her grandchild to baptize the baby...against her daughter's wishes.

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Summer Poetry Reading in Rehoboth

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Out this week: Thirty Days: Best of the 30/30 Project. Featuring my poem "Love in Reverse"

Marie Gauthier of Tupelo Press selected one of my poems, "Love in Reverse" for Thirty Days : The best of the 30/30 Project Year One. It's one of a few anthologies to feature my work (cue haughty accent, spotlight, espresso, and French cigarettes). Hopefully you'll be hearing more from me over the next few months as projects near completion. Thanks for the support.

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A Passion for Apathy: The Collected and Rejected Poems of Vittorio Carl i, a small press gem of punk rock poetry, carries poetic traditions in its teeth. Punk rock because of the in-your-face-anti-establishment irony and earnestness in Carli's presentation of his verse, traditional in the homage and muse tradition of poetry. He writes to and for those and that which enlarges his voice. Carli's work reads like a cross between cultural commentary/homage to persons as varied as Lawrence Welk to Woody Allen, to snapshots of socio-political unrest, which are flags of protest. My favorite is the “The Trouble with Librarians (for Andrea)” where Librarians are cast as the progenitors of closed information; they are “all closed books/with a couple of pages missing.” He's a poet, and I imagine him in some stacked room typing madly, or in transit, to and fro Chicago, scribbling on the back of brown paper bags. He works it. He's out there living poetry. Proof. My copy of t...

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