Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

Zombifurcation

At the Nightsun writing conference in Frostburg, MD, last weekend, I had the privilege of performing a reading of fiction and poetry. Here's an audio clip from the event, along with the text for one of the pieces I read -- the Seussian horror poem, "Zombifurcation" -- which appears in the latest issue of The Goreletter. ZOMBIFURCATION A zombie crawled right, a zombie crawled left -- both shared the singular body I'd cleft. I'd chopped down his chest, and cut off his scream -- but still he came at me, splitting his seam. He pulled himself toward me in reanimation:…
July 30, 2015Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Posted inInstigation

The Resolution

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Above you have The Resolution -- selected as the "Best Storyline" in the writing contest featured in the latest issue of The Goreletter. Kudos to my "co-authors": Gary Blankenship, Mike Brendan, AK Drees, Brian J. Harrold, Dale Herring & Terrie Leigh Relf, along with Matt Duvall and Steph Ellis, all of whom made this a lot of fun. This story started with the opening sentence, offered online as an Instigation "prompt" for a New Year's Eve writing contest ... and authors "replied" to it using tweets and AuthorBee functions to build a narrative that went in many…
December 31, 2013Posted inInstigation
Posted inArnzen News

Fear the Abyss…and the Scary Tiny Citybots!

Just posted the above video review of a few funky science fictional things I've been up to lately: including a teeny tiny ebook device for microfiction, a new experimental (and free!) short-short anthology (#Citybots) and the awesome Fear the Abyss anthology from Post Mortem Press.
January 2, 2013Posted inArnzen News
Posted inData+Errata

Congratulations to the Microhorror Contest Winners

If my book, 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories, left you hungry for more and more sick flash fiction, then you might want to check out microhorror.com, to get your quick fix of terror. A few weeks ago I guest-judged (along with Nathan Rosen and Oonah Joslin) a writing contest they held on the site for short-short horror stories related to the common theme of "art." It generated a huge response, and I read a lot of very sick stories that made it a difficult process to select the very best. My hat's off to the winners: Caelin Beaty (for "Chiseled"),…
December 29, 2012Posted inData+Errata1 Comment