Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

Fortune Cookie: A Parable

The waiter brought us our check on a little silver tray, bowing while politely setting it beside my plate. Atop the scribbled paper were two fortune cookies, wrapped in wax paper, which suggested they were homemade. "Oooh," Paul said from across the table, reaching out. I playfully slapped his hand away. "I already told you, Paul. Dinner's on me." He kept his hand wavering in the air. "That doesn't mean you get all the cookies." He went for the tray again. I moved it out of his reach -- which was fairly easy because he was sloshed on pear wine.…
July 25, 2011Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems3 Comments
Posted inWeblog Exclusive

Attack of the Bleu Man Group – Exclusive Halloween Audio Story

ATTACK OF THE BLEU MAN GROUP by Michael A. Arnzen (3.33 mins) [audio:Michael%20A.%20Arnzen_Gorelets.com_1_Bleu%20Man%20Group.mp3] DOWNLOAD .mp3 (3.4 mb) Happy Halloween! For a surprise treat this year, I am releasing a new humorous zombie story, exclusively in audio format, called "Attack of the Bleu Man Group." It's a wacky musical number, as much as a bizarro fiction reading, in the style of Audiovile. Without giving too much away, I'll just say two things about it: 1) yes, I meant to spell it "bleu," and, 2) "zombie mimes in black berets"!  Just crank up your speakers and press the red play button above.…
October 26, 2010Posted inWeblog Exclusive8 Comments
Posted inWeblog Exclusive

Brian Keene Must Die

Horror author Brian Keene is being massacred today by writers across the globe...fictionally, of course, and in the name of drumming up donations to the Shirley Jackson Award society. Here's my unsolicited and wholly unwarranted contribution, written impulsively just a few moments ago, because I like Brian and I like the Shirley Jackson Awards. Be sure to click over to Keene's website, where there are plenty of entertaining alternatives by numerous twisted writers. All in good fun! BRIAN KEENE MUST DIE "And then his face caved in." Brian Keene leaned back in his rickety old chair and evaluated the sentence.…
November 2, 2009Posted inWeblog Exclusive
Posted inArnzen News

The Ecology of Housecleaning

Still alive... catching up with all sorts of projects.  Almost overlooked this one: My microfiction, "The Ecology of Housecleaning," appears in the latest issue of Dustin LaValley's deceptively disturbing Micro100 journal.  Happy to see my old friend Kurt Newton has a tiny tale in there, alongside all sorts of other 100-word-or-less stories involving knives and babies.
March 11, 2009Posted inArnzen News