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Announcing: The Purge

Friends and freaks with terrifying keyword searches that ended up on my blog: it was time to say goodbye to content I’d been hauling around for years. That means posts from before 2015 are now in the big blog dumpster in the sky. You can find most of my stories here. If you were looking for something else, something potentially revol­ting for which this website was the only known source, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. Scroll down for my latest news.

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God's Speedboat Is Here

My new novel, God's Speedboat, is out. Part cannibal coming-of-age story, part serial killer Southern Gothic, part splatter­punk Western. Florida school libraries, here we come.💀 Get your copy here. Read more about it here.

#splatterpunk #transgressive fiction #extreme horror #dark writing #outcast press

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Almost here.

#god's speedboat #coming soon

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Open Mic Night Cracked!

We’re back at Prozak on Saturday April 29, 2023 at 8PM to scratch our heads at the state of affairs, guzzle beer, and share a story, poem, or song or two. Open theme. Pretty much anything goes. If you’ve got something to say, DM us on Facebook to reserve your spot.

#open mic #write cy

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Boomerangs in Nude Bruce Review!

An aging boomerang salesman lights out for California, falls in love with a Mexican woman, then acciden­tally decapitates his business partner’s trained rat. Read Boomerangs in Nude Bruce Review #13.

#boomerangs #nude bruce review #humor #short story

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Open Mic Night Unmasked

After three years of serious Rip Van Winkeling, we’re back at Prozak. Bring your original stories, poems, songs, rants, and spoken word on March 4, 2023 at 8PM. That’s a Saturday. Sign up here. Please share us down there.

#open mic #write cy

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I Got a Social Worker

A new piece of flash that plumbs the depths of the pandemic blues is out in Mid-Level Manage­ment Magazine Issue 3. Thank you, Tim Batson, for giving this oddball story a home in your awesomely designed and named zine. Read I Got a Social Worker in print or online.

#weirdo fiction #flash fiction

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A Penis Boot

In the fifth instalment of his epic 133-part cycle, “Public Emasculations and Alcoholic Deliriums,” poet warrior Narting Tadoo explores the loss of his best friend’s feet to Big Nar Nar the leper. A Penis Boot is available in print and online in Let’s Stab Caesar! Volume III.

#narting tadoo #flash fiction

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The City, About a Post-Apocalyptic Sideshow Freak Who Eats Iron and Shits Out Nails, Finally Sees Print

Despite the protagonist’s odd gift, The City is really a story about a man and a boy who learn to trust each other in a world that’s fallen apart. I owe special thanks to Jeff Georgeson at Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine for feeling strongly enough about this 8,000-word tale to take a risk on it. It’s been on and off of editors’ desks for years now. I also want to thank Harry Crews for writing a whole novel about a guy who swallows his car. (Don’t listen to Jonathan Yardley. Read it!) This was probably, in some way, the seed of this story. Read The City now in Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag Vol. 5 Issue 5.

#speculative fiction #dystopian fiction #short story

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Multiple Submissions Drops Today in En Bloc Magazine

How many times can you submit the same story to the same magazine before they ask you to stop? Read Multiple Submissions in En Bloc Magazine Issue 2 to find out. Thanks to Sam Leach and the crew at En Bloc for the warm welcome for this absurdist tale of persistence to no avail.

#humor #short story

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The Jeffermans Review Their Life Choices, Ten Vignettes of Domestic Disharmony, in Noctua Review

The Jeffermans have everything going for them: an ancient matriarch living in a peach crate under the kitchen sink, self-shrinking outfits, a flying trapeze artist next door they possibly murdered. Thank you Terri Linn Davis for giving these ten unsettling suburban vignettes a home. Read The Jeffermans Review Their Life Choices in Noctua Review Issue 14.

#weirdo fiction #short story

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Elevated, A Tale of Too Much Happiness, in Wyldblood Magazine

Sometimes being happy sucks. Many thanks to Mark Bilsborough for editing this story into the shape it’s in. Elevated is out in Wyldblood Magazine #3 (e-book and print). Find it at Wyldbood Press.

#speculative fiction #short story

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Florida Man

There’s been a lot of talk about what makes Florida Man more suscep­tible than other American men to committing weird, pointless crimes preserved for posterity by bizarre, frightening mugshots. This song offers a possible answer. (Actually, three possible answers.)

#florida man #song

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Big-headed Men Is Live at Nauseated Drive

The OJ Simpson trial happened a long time ago. It stands out for a number of well documented reasons — none of which appears in this very short piece of flash fiction, which focuses on probably the one detail about OJ that means absolutely nothing to anybody. Read it at Nauseated Drive.

#weirdo fiction #flash fiction

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I Went to Work at IKEA After Bobby Died at the Bowling Alley Finds a Home at Misery Tourism

Because who hasn’t wondered at least once in their life what it would be like to put on an IKEA shirt and pretend to work there? Thank you very, very much, William H. Duryea at Misery Tourism, for promoting the absurd. Read I Went to Work at IKEA after Bobby Died at the Bowling Alley at Misery Tourism.

#misery tourism #humor #weirdo fiction #short story

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I Wore My Red Nylon Short Shorts in Johnny America

Big day. Two new stories out. Catch the first Donovan Butty story, I Wore my Red Nylon Short Shorts, in Johnny America today. If you miss it, find it here for as long as it’s there. Sometimes things online disappear for no good reason. Thank you, Jay Holley! About Donovan Butty. Donovan Butty is basically an unemployable, inscrutable misfit of variable IQ who has paid more interest on his college debt than he has contributed to society in the form of taxes, which he doesn’t pay either. Being so low on the totem pole doesn’t matter to Donovan Butty. In fact, the nearly daily skirmishes he has with The Man are Butty’s raison d’être. If you encounter Butty on the street, you won’t notice him. You certainly won’t remember him. But if you do something shitty to him — even if he deserves it more than Elvis’s colon deserved an enema — you may end up in a story where no one’s the winner, but someone gets the last laugh. That someone will always be Donovan Butty. Illustration: Jay Holley↗

#johnny america #weirdo fiction #flash fiction

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Shaved and Waxed at Horror Sleaze Trash

Ex-semi-pro-wrestler Earl “The Pedestrian” Wilmer is just trying to claim the $5 ass waxing he ordered off Craigslist. I guess that says it all. Read Shaved and Waxed at Horror Sleaze Trash. Because where else? Thank you, Arthur Graham.

#horror sleaze trash #short story