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

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

Teaching Satire Using YouTube

I try to teach “A Modest Proposal” to every senior class I have. I love their reactions to the proposal itself. What really gets me is how few of the students understand that the entire proposal is a satirical piece, that he is being facetious.
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