Even more than last year. I’ve been really at it in the satire field. Meanwhile, some fiction, poetry, and non-fiction continues to appear. I appreciate all the reader support during this time.
I just got my issue of Red Coyote If you order yourself a copy, you can read the five poems they featured, and other great work. The poems, all of them on nature, include:
“Doe”
“This Dry Cold Night”
“Dead Still Point”
“Cabin”
“Marsh Toads”
In the realm of fiction, I’ve had three out this year.
“A Thousand Little Steps” is a sci-fi flash fiction piece appearing in 365 Tomorrows.
“Cherokee Knives” appeared in Mystery Tribune online.
“Pale Horse Coming” was feature in Shotgun Honey.
The essay “Neighbors Now” appeared in Change Seven.
In addition, I discovered my essay “In Maggie’s Shadow” from Potomac Review was listed as a notable essay from 2022 by the Best American Essays series. On top of that, I’m a Pushcart Prize nominee now, the selected essay being “Times I Thought of Running Away” from Sunlight Press.
And Then There’s Medium
I had my first piece in The Writing Cooperative: “I Don’t Care For Your Definitions of Highbrow and Lowbrow“
Slackjaw slapped the following pieces on their site:
“I Thought I Would Give You A Call While Doing Every Obnoxiously Interruptive Thing I Can”
“Please Take Ten Minutes Out of Your Day To Fill Out This Satisfaction Survey For Our Fast- Casual Restaurant”
“My Name Is Ken Follett and I Am Now Going To Writing Short Fiction”
“You Don’t Have to Lock Up the Warehouse As There Will Be a Superhero Fight Tonight”
“German Words For Complex Emotions You Didn’t Know About”
“Ten Empires Guys Can Think About Besides The Roman One”
Jane Austen’s Wastebasket was kind enough to boost me with pieces like:
“I, Herman Melville, Ask That You Please Stop Teaching My Bloated Whale Encyclopedia to High Schoolers”
“I, Ebenezer Scrooge, Love How You Guys Do Christmas”
“I Should Never Have Demanded Figgy Pudding: An Apology”
Backyard Church was gracious to let me have some space to advertise some really bad churches like these:
“Welcome to the Barbed Gate Church”
“Try the Bitter Springs Church For a Change”
“Welcome to the Smith & Wesson Church of Christ”
“The Fort Formal Christian Church Welcomes You”
“I Am Part of the Partisan Pulpit Church of the Coalition”
“The Church on Shibboleth Hill Accepts Only One Bible Translation”
“Sweet, Now I’m At the Six Flags Church”
“Attend the White Flight Church of Christ”
All these pieces appeared in MuddyUm, Doctor Funny, Greener Pastures, and The Haven:
“Boy Scouts Will Teach Your Children to Prepare for Society’s Collapse”
“This is a Ransom Note From Your Landlord”
“A Thank You Letter To 007 From The Sardinian Farmer Whose House He Destroyed”
“Quiz: Who Said It? A MAGA Politician? Or Adolf Hitler?”
“Streaming Services and Their Enneagram Types”
“This Cold Pizza is Not My Attempt To Prevent Unionization; It’s a Selfless Gesture of Thanks To My Employees”
“Letter to George Lucas From the Tunisian Ministry of Tourism, 1983”
“I Know How Hitler Wrote the Second Amendment”
“A Male White Oak Issues An Apology For Allergenic Assault”
“I, Belle, Am Tired of Living in an 18th Century Village”
“You Are the Billy Collins Poem”
“Memo To Myself From Myself After Reading Horkheimer and Adorno While watching Severance on my lunch break”
“As Seen On TV! The AR-15!”
“Help Me: I Am Vehicle Illiterate”
“I, Male Director of This Film, am Excited to Flesh Out This Female Character, Who is On Screen For Three Minutes”
“A Sitcom In Which Putin and Trump Share a Prison Cell, Starring Only Actual Things They’ve Said”
“T.S. Eliot Reviews The Little Mermaid”
“National “Weed Your Garden Day” Is Now National “Weed Garden” Day”
“Diaries of a Dying Jellyfish That Has Just Been Discovered By Two Third Grade Boys”
“We’ve Run Out Of Ways To Make a Message Self-Destruct”
“Other Things To Try In a Small Town: A Tourism Guide”
“It’s Me, First Watch: Stop Referring To Me as the Instagrammer’s Cracker Barrel”
“How To Use a Comma, According To, People Who Don’t Know How, To Use a Comma”
“Ivy League Fraternity Initiation? Or Unsupervised Children on a Playdate?
“I’m the D.A.R.E. Officer Here to Scare You With Street Slang”
“Pay Close Attention To Our Comprehensive Laser Tag Briefing Video”
“You Clearly Just Killed Fifty-Three Henchmen, If You Kill Your Nemesis You’ll Be Just Like Him
“We Plan To Be Carbon Neutral By The Year 5024”
“The English Department Rejects Your Proposal To Teach Harry Potter as Victorian Literature”
Here are the year’s McSweeney’s pieces:
“I Asked ChatGPT To Send a Terminator Back In Time To Circumvent Its Own Inception“
“For Your Crimes You Have Been Sentenced To Unpaid Labor At A Pumpkin Patch“
and finally, here’s the stuff from Weekly Humorist:
“As a Content Creator, The Most Rewarding Part of My Job is Calling Myself a Content Creator”
“Movies in the Cocaine Bear Cinematic Universe”
“Unfortunately Fortuitous Quotes From the Animated Film Playing Down the Hall As You and Your Partner Climax”
“Album Names For Your Dad’s Bluegrass Cover Band”
“Acceptable Ways To Pronounce Entrepreneur”
“I, Mattle Mermaid”
“National “Weed Your Garden Day” Is Now National “
CALEB COY 