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.
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New Essay Out! And Other Updates
It’s a new month, and summer has been productive. Here’s an update on the writing that’s been coming out from Caleb Coy Industries—a thing that I just made up.
My latest personal essay out in Change Seven. “Neighbors Now” Take a look!
My first publication in a sci-fi journal, 365 Tomorrows. A flash fiction piece called “A Thousand Tiny Steps” Take a look!
A short article, “What Kurt Vonnegut Taught Me About Writing For a Living” in Writing101
And here are some of the recent satires:
“Help Me: I Am Vehicle Illiterate” in MuddyUm
“I, Male Director of This Film, am Excited to Flesh Out This Female Character, Who is On Screen For Three Minutes” in Greener Pastures
“A Sitcom In Which Putin and Trump Share a Prison Cell, Starring Only Actual Things They’ve Said”
in Doctor Funny
“German Words For Complex Emotions You Didn’t Know About” in Slackjaw
“T.S. Eliot Reviews The Little Mermaid” in MuddyUm
“National “Weed Your Garden Day” Is Now National “Weed Garden” Day” in The Haven
“Diaries of a Dying Jellyfish That Has Just Been Discovered By Two Third Grade Boys”
in MuddyUm
“We’ve Run Out Of Ways To Make a Message Self-Destruct” in MuddyUm
“Other Things To Try In a Small Town: A Tourism Guide” in The Haven
This Month’s Publications
Hey readers!
Looks like it’s all satire for the month of May.
Here’s a rundown of the stuff you can read: Continue reading
Pieces Published in the Last Two Months
Happy Spring readers!
Thought I’d catch you up in what I’ve been able to get out in the past couple months.
“Sometimes freedom is the impoverished commitment of two lonely people who have fled.”
I had a short personal essay, “Times I Thought of Running Away,” appear in Sunlight Press. Read here.
As for the rest, it’s all satire:
READ “My Name Is Ken Follett and I Am Now Going To Writing Short Fiction” appeared in Slackjaw
READ “I, Belle, Am Tired of Living in an 18th Century Village” appeared in MuddyUm
READ “A Male White Oak Issues An Apology For Allergenic Assault” appeared in Doctor Funny
READ “Quiz: Who Said It? A MAGA Politician? Or Adolf Hitler?” appeared in The Haven
READ “This Cold Pizza is Not My Attempt To Prevent Unionization; It’s a Selfless Gesture of Thanks To My Employees” appeared in Greener Pastures
READ “Streaming Services and Their Enneagram Types” appeared in MuddyUm
READ “Letter to George Lucas From the Tunisian Ministry of Tourism, 1983” appeared in Doctor Funny
READ “Movies in the Cocaine Bear Cinematic Universe” appeared in Weekly Humorist
READ “My Name is Ishtar: Stop Confusing Me With Easter” appeared in Backyard Church
Published Reads This Month
Hey readers! Here’s a rundown of some of this month’s publications you can read me at so far!
I Asked ChatGPT To Send a Terminator Back In Time To Circumvent Its Own Inception in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Please Take Ten Minutes Out of Your Day To Fill Out This Satisfaction Survey in Slackjaw
This Is A Ransom Note From Your Landlord in Greener Pastures
As a Content Creator, The Most Rewarding Part of My Job is Calling Myself a Content Creator in Weekly Humorist
To 007 From The Sardinian Farmer Whose House He Destroyed in Doctor Funny
Boy Scouts Will Teach Your Children to Prepare for Society’s Collapse in MuddyUm
How I Made $1,000 From 1 Chart-Topping Medium Post
and two new churches to try:
The Billy Peebles Church of God and The Bitter Springs Church of God in Backyard Church
A New Year, New Blog Goals
Last week, I published a satire article in Slackjaw: “I Thought I Would Give You A Call While Doing Every Obnoxiously Interruptive Thing I Can” in Slackjaw. This is one of many pieces I was able to get out last year, and it’s been the best year for publishing yet. So I decided to think through what to do about that.
I started this blog over a decade ago. At the time I went from thinking I would never do a blog to starting one up just to see where it went. In the meantime, my writing grew outside this blog.
While this blog serves its purpose, I am now transitioning to writing less on this blog, and more in other places. But I still want this blog to remain, as it does provide a unique space for my writing.
And so I intend to keep writing. From now on, you’ll see posts from me, but instead of seeing them on a two-week basis, I will be posting only monthly.
There will be some exceptions, quick posts here and there, but you can expect mostly posts from me. So keep following.
In addition, follow me on Medium. Last year I expanded to Medium, where I write mostly satire and advice on writing.
It’s been a journey so far readers. Let’s see where it leads next!
New Poem Published in SLAB
Readers, this past week I had a new poem in the fantastic journal SLAB.
“Remedy For My Mind” is the name of my poem, but you’ll also find great work by writers like Chital Mehta, Sandra Newton, and Joseph D. Miloch.
You can order a copy here!
Also recently appearing, “I’m an Eldritch Horror Slumbering Under the Appalachian Mountains” on Medium.
Read My Latest Satire Posts
In the past couple weeks I’ve had a few satire pieces published online. Check them out!
Lyrics From Abandoned Weird Al Songs published in The Haven
The Inconsistencies in Plot, Character Development, and Basic Rules of Grammar in My Thirteen-Part Fantasy Series Can Be Explained By a Phenomenon Known as Purple Manna published in McSweeney’s
“How To Get Limited Public Service Debt Relief in 60 Simple Steps” published in The Haven
5 Funny Reads from Slackjaw This week
If you don’t follow Slackjaw on Medium, you really ought to. Endless short humor pieces to help you get through your day.
Everyone can read 5 articles a month for free on Medium’s giant library, but if you subscribe for only 5 dollars a month (imagine paying a dollar for each one of those free ones, then the rest are free—hey, it’s cheaper than the newspaper), you get unlimited access to any article from any publication on Medium.
So to convince you, here are 5 great humor pieces from this week alone from Slackjaw, the premiere humor publication on Medium:
- How To Have “The Talk” With Your Child About Weinerville by Caleb Coy
Yes, that’s me. It’s mine. But hey, I’m real proud of it. And my brother is real proud of it. Sooner or later, you might have to talk to your child about getting weinerized. - Quiz: Are You At A 90 Minute Hot Power Yoga Class, Or A Medieval Public Execution? by Luke Strathmann
“Everyone’s dehydrated, and sometimes there are goats.” - Real Friends Never Say “Good-Bye.” They Say “I Should Really Let You Go” And Then Keep Talking by Lily Hirsch
“If I said “good-bye,” you’d basically assume I’m dying. And a real friend would never make you deal with death when no one has actually died.” - Introducing The Tragedy Flag: The First Ever Flag Made To Stay At Half-Staff by Adam Dietz
“With The Tragedy Flag, you’ll never have to mournfully lower your flag again! And you’ll never have to raise it again either, not that you ever get a chance to on account of the daily gun violence.” - The Philosophy Major’s Guide To Small Talk by Alex Baia
“Need help finding anything?”
“Not unless I have free will.”
CALEB COY 