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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 inArnzen News

Fund The Fridge of the Damned … Get the INSTIGATION Ebook!

For the month of January, Raw Dog Screaming Press, Microhorror.com and Gorelets.com are joining forces to campaign on Kickstarter to make The Fridge of the Damned: a twisted poetry word tile set (based on something that old fans of this site will be familiar with) that will make any sticky metal surface even stickier! We need your help. Kick in a few bucks and if our dreams become a reality, you can use these demented fridge magnets however you please... in fact, with a little creative play, they might "instigate" you to come up with poetry, stories, art or even…
January 2, 2013Posted inArnzen News
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Twisted Prompts for Sicko Writers (31)

Begin with a Woman... + Begin with a woman...defiantly shaking a phantom (or prosthetic) arm at the heavens. + Begin with a woman...requesting plastic surgery to make her something LESS (beautiful, endowed, perfect, etc). + Begin with a woman...who reads more than she should into her 'time of the month.' + Begin with a woman...discovering something alive in the meat drawer. + Begin with a woman...in love with a man BECAUSE he survived her murder attempt. + Begin with a woman...applying mascara to a corpse. + Begin with a woman...alienated by the newborn creature in her arms. + Begin with…
December 30, 2012Posted inInstigation
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Attention Ebook Readers: Fictionwise.com to Close Shop

If you've been reading my ebooks since the early days (e.g., pre-Kindle), then there's a good chance you got them through Fictionwise.com -- one of the first successful ebook distributors, known for offering a wide array of genre fiction -- especially individual short stories -- for a very affordable price. You may have already known that they were "bought out" by Barnes and Noble a few years ago, to help support B&N's offerings for the Nook e-reader. Yesterday I was informed that I should backup all my own purchases and get ready for the site to close down. They have…
November 16, 2012Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems

MUTTERVERSE: All Halloween Day and Night Long!

Throughout #Halloween day I will tweet new poems inspired by my recent trip to @muttermuseum #MutterMuseum with hashtag #MUTTERVERSE— Michael Arnzen (@MikeArnzen) October 31, 2012 Happy Halloween! I enjoyed the Zombie Haiku tweet marathon on Halloween last year (which later was printed in The Gorelets Omnibus) so much that I am doing it again -- but it will be a little more somber and diverse this time with short free verse pieces about disease, deformity, body horror and medical freakitude, all inspired by my recent trip to the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (and based on…
October 30, 2012Posted inArnzen News, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems1 Comment