Today online literary journal Midnight Lane Boutique published my poem “A Spell Through Time.” This piece is one of the texts from the Doom Pussy series, intended as a kind of incantation from the character herself. In the stories, Doom Pussy is a Kali-esque figure engaged in a total war against a destructive enemy: mankind as a virus.
Be aware that this piece features extreme language.
You can read it here.
There’s also a link to the Doom Pussy story published in Gobbet.
Danse Macabre issue 114, aka “Venusberg” was released last night. It includes my short story “Ceramic Eyes,” mostly science fiction with some weird horror elements. In it, a young woman investigating missing cats finds–and loses–much more than she expected.
You can read it here.
Poetry blog Your One Phone Call published one of my Ouija poems today, “Don’t Mess with Ouija.” You can read it here.
This is one of a series of pieces featuring a character named Ouija who may or may not be an actual ouija planchette. Your One Phone Call has published three others in the series.
Experimental poetry journal Experiential-Experimental-Literature (Ex-Ex-Lit) published three of my “Gonch” poems today: “Chonall Na Lochonga,” “Galla Galla Gan,” and “Nagonall.” You can read them here.
These pieces were written using a vocabulary limited to words invented from the nonsense phrase “All Gonch.” It’s an attempt to create a new language, imagining also the culture behind it through the shape and structure of the words, that might arise after the death of the current (American) culture and language.
Just discovered that experimental poetry journal published five visual poems on March 12. Check out the images here.
These were pulled from my video Succubus Highway, which was previously published on YouTube.
Today, experimental poetry journal The Curly Mind published 5 of my poems: “My Turn to Shine,” “Reinforcement Labels,” “Some When,” “The Hold Up,” and “A Dose of Applause.” Seems like they are part of Issue 8. You can read them by clicking the title of each poem above.
DC people may be interested to know that “Reinforcement Labels” is set in Meridian Park (aka Malcolm X Park), and describes a typical weekend scene there, probably on one of the occasions my son and I went there so he could ride his skateboard.
Just learned that the latest issue of Synchronized Chaos was released on March 1. This month’s theme relates to journeys, and includes three of my poems: “The Long Fire,” “Complete Breakfast,” and “Come My Brothers, Have a Good Courage and Follow Me.”
You can read them here.
The March 2018 issue of online poetry journal Ygdrasil was released today. It includes three of my poems: “Too Much of a Good Thing,” “Something for Everyone,” and “Under the Weather.” You can read them here.
Horror Sleaze Trash is an online literary journal of extremes–poetry and fiction from the edge, along with Suicide Girl photos, films and similarly sleazy trash. Yesterday evening, the journal published my story “Pussy Marches On,” another text in a cycle revolving around the character Doom Pussy, a Kali-like figure engaged in a war with mankind. There should probably some kind of hazard warning with it, due to the extreme language and situations, so if you’re sensitive to that sort of thing, best to avoid. Otherwise, you can read it here.
Today, Outlaw Poetry journal published three of my poems: “Ghost in the moment of a universe without man,” “Shady Lost Deliveries,” and “Overall, the Dying.” You can read them here.
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