CHARLIE

A link to "Charlie," newly revamped for the online launch of the electric editions of A cappella Zoo, can be found here. All for now.

COOKIES

NEWSABLES

A few titbits for the Rolli-inclined:

I) A new short story - Mr. Penny's Experiment - in the Spring 2009 issue of Transition.


II) Two new prose poems - From Dr. Owen's Obit and From Dr. Owen's Journal (Unpublished) - in the 10th Anniversary Issue of Mythic Delirium.



III) Autographed copies of all the above are now available at the Rolli Shop - where, for the month of May, all orders include a free mystery treat.


IV) Coming soon - poems in The New Quarterly, Quarterly West, and The Egregious, plus a short story podcast by Bound Off.


V) Dreamed that a street tough offered me a piece of (friendly?) advice - to carry a wrench in my pocket at all times, for protection. You've gotta be quick, he went on, whipping his own wrench repeatedly out, like a gunslinger. Egads.

ROLLI STUFF!

Today marks the GRAND OPENING of my new online shop, Rolli Stuff, a tax-free, postage-free haven for collectors of all things Rolli. Interested in new, autographed copies of journals, anthologies, and CDs featuring my work? No? Well, visit anyway - you might just change your mind!

VIP

A VIP (Very Important Post) can and should be read, by everyone, here.

GOD'S AUTOBIO

is the title of my newest tale, just-published by Lunch Hour Stories, about an encounter between a journalist, recently deceased, and god – who, it seems, is a classic Englishman (smelling, even, of bergamot). For an autographed copy ($8 + shipping), write to me.

Fell yesterday in spring slush. It was miserable.

Little else to report – but watch for a new poem in Quarterly West, two new poems in Paragon, a pair of prose poems in the 10th anniversary issue of Mythic Delirium, and the podcast of a short story by Bound Off. Oh - and a poem and drawing in the July/August issue of Writer's Eye.

Off for coffee.

KISSY KISS KISS

Waking, and reaching for a pen, I spontaneously drew the above, this morning. I have no idea why.

Two new poems in this month’s Egregious, about a pair of uncles, and based only partially on ABSOLUTE FACT. They’re taken from my novel-in-poems Mavor’s Bones, written several years ago, which absolutely no one would publish. Other “chapters” have appeared in Barnwood, Grain, Strange Horizons, Inscribed, Spring, Poesia, and others. And speaking of Barnwood, I have two new poems in this month's edition: "CHURCH'LL (The Hundred-Year-Old Woman)," which is pure fancy, and "Green Bottles," which isn't.

“Willow, Salamander and Moon,” a poem I’ve been peddling a while, now, has won the Moontown Monthly Poetry Contest for January.

That’s really all I can think of. Except that I’m bored to death.

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