(S)wine: ShortLeanCuts

at Trainwrite

Lx — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:13:17 +0000

There’s a short and sweet piece up at Trainwrite about Amsterdam, sleeper cars, and skinhead hooligans. You’ll find it here. Hope you dig it.

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Connotation Press

Lx — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:25:03 +0000

I have two pieces published in the new issue of Connotation Press. You can read them here. Some of you may have seen these previously on this site and maybe on Fictionaut. I hope you enjoy them.

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at Airplane Reading again

Lx — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:09:53 +0000

Here’s a funky one that lives up at Airplane Reading.

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at The Lit Pub

Lx — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:59:18 +0000

Today is a sad day for me; we lost one of the greats. Christopher Hitchens and I had a weird, professional relationship that influenced me (surely not so much him) for the rest of my life. My piece at The Lit Pub is here.

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at Fictionaut

Lx — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:44:16 +0000

My short piece “Vanya” is up at Fictionaut today. It’s one of the most read and most recommended, and I hope you enjoy it.

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at Airplane Reading

Lx — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:11:24 +0000

My short flash piece “Mother Tongue” is here. Hope you like it.

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at The Legendary

Lx — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:46:07 +0000

My story “Running West and East with Important Books in Liquor Store Boxes” is up at The Legendary this morning. Enjoy a strange little road trip.

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Fin

Lx — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:14:02 +0000

To the few that still hit this site, all the new material I write from now on will either be submitted to zines, or posted up at Fictionaut. I’ll update this site with links accordingly whenever a piece is up or published, so for those of you not following me on Twitter or FB friends, you can check here for direct links to new stuff. Basically, The Swine will just re-direct you to published stuff.

So, for starters, you can find my story “Saints” over here.
And my story “Loose Tooth” here.
“Two Sides of One Half” is here.

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Lists

Lx — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:59:40 +0000

I’m very honored to have made Immortal Ink Publishing’s Indie Reading List for 2012 with “Short Lean Cuts.” If you haven’t yet snagged a copy for yourselves, you can do so here.

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my mother is a fish

Lx — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:56:32 +0000

ah now it’s famous it’s famous
he says
you can’t beat that you can’t use it
he says
nothing you can do to it except bollix it all up
he says
we roll bones together in an empty pub
while the barkeep wipes the inside of glasses
and watches us bump one another in succession
up on the bar down from the bar
and so on depending on what we roll
making the whole thing futile
no one truly progresses in this ancient game
it’s safe here among books
they’re bad books but it’s warm
and the pints come up through clean lines
the barkeep assures us no tapeworms have been found in ages
on which day did your mother die
he says
he rolls and the sound reverberates up the high walls
she didn’t
I say
she merely stopped living
while I peeled oranges in the back seat

Filed under: Experimental, Fiction