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January 9, 2019
Pointless Confessions: Day Two
Pointless confessions day two: I have been to Colorado.
January 8, 2019
Pointless Confessions: Day One
Let’s have a week of pointless confessions. Pointless confession day one: I once ate a sandwich.
January 7, 2019
2018 Year In Writing
2018 was a good writing year. I got 18 stories accepted. That’s 2 more than 2017. No new book acceptance this year, primarily because I haven’t written a new one yet to send out. I still have one sitting with someone, but something will only happen with that if a press project ends up going forward, and it’s been a couple years seeing if that will happen. Regardless, I did have a new book publish this year (Roses are Red, Violets are Stealing Loose Change from my Pockets While I Sleep). Also, Apocalypse All the Time got Finalist for Humor in the 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards and Roses are Red, Violets are Stealing Loose Change from my Pockets While I Sleep was a 2018 Best Book Awards finalist in the short story category. Further, Punch Drunk Press even decided to publish one of my few poems, “Lessons of the Moon and Gore-Tex® Thermals.”
Anyway, it was a good year. Here are links to the stories that published this year:
“In my Younger and More Vulnerable Years my Father Used to Take me to the Strip Club and Make Me Hold Down Drunks While he Rolled Them for Empty TUMS Travel Containers and Raspberry Fruit Roll-Ups” published December 14, 2018 in Flash Fiction Friday at Bizarro Central.
“A Wink May be the Same as a Nod to a Blind Man, but that Doesn’t Mean he’s Going to Lend You his Credit Cards to Get a Bunch of New Spongebob Squarepants Tattoos Unless You’ve Got Some Pretty Serious Collateral” published December 5, 2018 in South Broadway Ghost Society.
“Syndication Washes All the Color Out of Life but it Still Beats Emptying the Dishwasher Any Day” published December 14, 2018 in Five 2 One Magazine‘s #thesideshow.
“Selling Caramel Turtles at the Concessions is Only Going to Confuse Visitors as to the Intended Use of the Reptile Ones in the Tanks” published August 27, 2018 in Idle Ink.
“In the Interests of Flame-Broiled Disclosure” published in Volume 13, no 2 of Wilderness House Literary Review.
“Sixteenth Century French Literature Still Makes Me Feel Vulnerable Even Though I’ve Almost Finished the Whole Ten Day Course of That New Antibiotic” published July 2, 2018 in KLEFT JAW ISSUE #13.
“Lee Iacocca Worked for so Many Car Companies Because he’d Keep Doing Blow and Forgetting Where he Worked” published July 15, 2018 in the first issue of flash & cinder.
“I’d Say it was Starting to Get Ridiculous if that Didn’t Imply that this Garbage had Just Started Recently” published March 24, 2018 in KLEFT JAW Spring 2018 ISSUE #12.
“Sour Cream and Onion Potato Chips Sound Like a Good Idea Though Halfway Through the Bag You Inevitably End Up Questioning the Direction of Your Entire Life and Maybe Want to Die a Little” published March 20, 2018 in issue 5 of The Ginger Collect.
“The French Have Some Explaining to do Regardless Whether or not the Irish Authorize the Mortgage Refinance” published in Issue 9 (June 15) of formercactus.
“‘Psychomania’ Resulted in the Deaths of Hundreds of Angst-Riddled Teenagers, but the Important Thing is that the Crap About the Toad Made No God Damned Sense” published March 9, 2018 in Five 2 One Magazine‘s #thesideshow.
“Not Everyone Gets to be an Astronaut so Don’t Hold Your Breath Trying to Practice” published March 26, 2018 in Spelk.
“The Indoctrination of Little Bee” published April 22, 2018 in Fictive Dream.
“Colloidal Suspensions Are Mixtures of Small Particles Dispensed in Gas or Liquids Regardless Whether You Had a Building Permit When They were Made or Not” published February 2, 2018 by Punch Drunk Press.
“No Way Out Once Inside” published January 5, 2018 at Ellipsis Zine.
January 5, 2019
Readings And Such Attended in 2018
Here’s all the readings and such I attended in 2018 (a few of which I may have done a little reading at):
January
A number of readings while visiting my old MFA program.
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
Pizza and Prose (a reading series a writer at my work puts on, this one a tribute to Ed Bryant featuring stores by Van Aaron Hughes and Rebecca Hodgkins).
The Art of Storytelling.
February
The Art of Storytelling.
March
A number of readings during AWP in Tampa.
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
The Art of Storytelling.
April
Pizza and Prose (a reading series a writer at my work puts on, this one featuring stories by Margaret Sessa-Hawkins and Octavia E. Butler).
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
May
Elle Nash’s reading for Animals Eat Each Other at the Tattered Cover at Colfax in Denver.
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
June
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
The Art of Storytelling.
July
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
A number of readings while visiting my old MFA program.
August
Queen City Companion.
Dire Literary Series.
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
The Art of Storytelling.
At the Inkwell: Flash Fiction Night!
September
The reading for The Swing of Things at the Tattered Cover on Colfax in Denver.
Lit Crawl Denver.
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
Bolder Kleft Kaucus.
October
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
November
Pizza and Prose (a reading series a writer at my work puts on, this one a tribute to Harlan Ellison).
Heard at Hub.
The Reality Traveler BookBirth SuperConcert!
December
Queen City Companion.
January 4, 2019
A Picture Of What Crosroads Mall In Omaha Looks Like Now That Sears Has Closed
Here’s a picture of what Crossroads Mall in Omaha looks like now that Sears has closed.
Well, we could always go to Jolly Time. No, wait. How about Waldenbooks? Um, Radio Shack? Hold on, give me a second here…
January 3, 2019
Pfffffttttt!!!!! I’ve Basically Been Doing That For At Least A Couple Months Already
People always joke about having trouble remembering to write the correct date for the early part of a new year. I get it, I do it too. You get so used to writing 2018 that you do it automatically, remember and cross it out. However, why wait until January? For at least several months ahead of time, some voice in my head remembered that 2019 was coming and preemptively screwed me up.
Brains are both amazing and completely stupid.
January 2, 2019
Okay, I’m Done With 2019 Already
Okay, I’m done with 2019 already.
Actually, I wrote this back on the 27th of November. I’m just being realistic.
January 1, 2019
December 31, 2018
Let’s Finish Out The Year Right
Let’s finish out the year right:
Forget 2018.
December 30, 2018
The Cat From Yesterday Was Out On The Porch Before The Night Was Out
Remember that Christmas Incandescent Tinsel Cat at Target. I mentioned yesterday that my wife bought for the Christmas season and still hadn’t put out by the day after Christmas? Well, I have to admit that she put it out the very night I wrote yesterday’s post.
Of course, I mentioned that I wrote the post while she was standing next to the box with the cat in it next to the balcony. That might have had something to do with it.
