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Small press roundup. Blue Nib, Golden Walkman Magazine Podcast, DisQuiet Arts, Helios Quarterly, Lethal Impact, Fourteen HIlls



New poems over at Ireland's The Blue Nib
"Somewhere a radio plays “Turn the Page”

and your age comes in clips, synaptic breaks,

so much is lost in the moment

and regained"


"Spotted Owl Hunting in a Brief Storm" is included in The Golden Walkman's" new episode   
"A lake loves itself, 

laps, and laps and laps. How cold water, the mother well. 

How cold the sky up turning now"



A short (about a 1000 words) horror tale is up at DisQuiet Arts. "Vic would later recall the unzipping sound of wet skin and viscera ripping down as black flies came out of her father’s throat, the vomit still hanging on his lips as he tore his face. "

My Mad Max with Boats tale, "How the Dun-in Man Got His Name" is included in The Best of Helios Quarterly.  "Irrevocably altered by climate change, a lone man alludes sharks and marshpunks in near-future Boston." 

The same character from the aforementioned tale shows up in "Don't Cough in Marshpunk Territory" which will be a part of Dragon Soul Press' Lethal Impact anthology. Splatterpunk, action, dystopian thriller. Lethal Impact will be out later this year.


A new poem, "Poor Yuck Mouth" was featured as one of their centerfold poems in the new issue from the award-winning Fourteen Hills.

In late May I was interviewed on Chat & Spin, streaming from the UK, about Mulch, forthcoming from Montag Press. A big fat weird Stephen King-like adventure, & most definitely not for children.  Think Netflix's Ozark plus mermaids, and a genie that pops out of a paint can. Plus ostrich races, ghosts, sex, gore, and graffiti.

New poems forthcoming from Gargoyle later this summer.

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