Posted inArnzen News Instigation

Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side – New E-book Now Available!

Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side by Michael Arnzen: Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side is a treasury of twisted tips, strange scenarios and disturbing sparks to help ignite the fuel in your creative furnace. Its aim? To push you into the danger zone of your imagination, by thinking in unconventional ways and trying things you never thought — or dared — to try before in your writing, art, or dreams. See the catalog page for more information. DIRECT PURCHASE FROM MASTICATION for $3.99: ALSO NOW AVAILABLE FROM: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Kobo |…
March 16, 2013Posted inArnzen News, Instigation
Posted inInstigation

Announcing the Instigation Showcase

Announcing the Instigation Showcase! From now on, anyone who publishes a response to a prompt or is inspired to write something specifically in response to Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side or the Instigation department on this weblog will be listed on the new Showcase page dedicated to helping broaden your audience. Over the years, I've received numerous emails from writers who produced new work based on the prompts in The Goreletter, and I'm happy to have finally figured out a way to showcase your work. Share your links to work (whether on a blog or in a book)…
March 15, 2013Posted inInstigation
Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

Goldfisher

borrowing from Bond he brings home the bloated baggie and scoops out blissful killifish, dropping one after the other into his plastic aquarium: the translucent bucket of gold paint these goldfish never swim, and his net is clotted from skimming them back out so often, but he knows he will find the right species eventually -- there are tens of thousands and if he knows his evolution, then only the fittest will survive
March 9, 2013Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Posted inArnzen News

The Fridge of the Damned Gallery

The Fridge of the Damned is currently landing in backer mailboxes everywhere, and people are having a blast with the weird horror poetry magnets, and sharing their photos online. If you're one of them, I invite you to email me a shot or post a link to one to contribute a photo to the Fridge of the Damned gallery on Flickr. People are also sharing shots on twitter with hashtag #TFOTD. I love what I've seen so far! The Fridge of the Damned is now offered for sale for $12 each by Raw Dog Screaming Press, while supplies last.
March 8, 2013Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Fridge of the Damned: Get Yours! Share Yours!

As I've reported over the past month, we successfully funded the production of The Fridge of the Damned at the end of January through a great Kickstarter campaign, and rewards to backers are being distributed as I type, including all the awesomely weird horror poetry magnets in a despicable tin set.  You can order a set if you didn't get one through the kickstarter campaign, now, too! If you make a cool poem with the FotD, please take a photo and share it (or a link to it) with me via comment below or email.  I will post it to…
March 4, 2013Posted inArnzen News