Author Jay Sturner

Most of these titles have never been officially published. Current (2021-present) "If you don't seek a little beauty..." (thoughts & observations) Figures (humor) "Manifest Destiny has been replaced..."  (thoughts & observations) "Be honest and authentic..."  (thoughts & observations) Birder Meme #2 (There's other birds!) (humor) Birder Meme #1 (It's a heron!) (humor) "Cheers! to the dreams that die..." (thoughts & observations) The Loss of a Beloved Bird ( h umor; non-extant) Final Texts (humor; non-extant ) Lost Dad ( thoughts & observations ) 2010-2020 Cats Rule!  (h umor) "Day is a bright open eye..."  ( thoughts & observations) "Everyone calls regular mail..."  (h umor) Factoid: "87% of hotdog manufacturing plants..."  (h umor) Factoid: "Nearly every bug you've ever swallowed..."  (h umor) Factoid: "One out of every 68 million dandelions..."  (h umo...

This is a list of poems that fall outside the aforementioned categories.  Many were published in various periodicals before appearing in my books. A few were never published at all. Several titles are missing from the list, as these poems  were either lost, destroyed, or only exist  as hand-written drafts scattered about. Current (2021-present) Observer (Just Observe) (non-extant) This Me Now (unpublished) The Quiet Hour Ends (unpublished) Her Forces  ( unpublished) Off My Game  ( unpublished) Tonight I Tried to Dream  ( unpublished) Stone  ( unpublished) Contentment  ( unpublished) Grand Empathy (non-extant) Three Poems in the Back of a Book  ( unpublished ) Skugge (non-extant; composed on paper and spoken aloud before being offered to the fire in my wood-burning stove) Untitled poem for Skaði, the Norse goddess (non-extant; composed in my head and spoken aloud just once; it was never written down) Headwaters   (first published in ...

These are my science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories. The periodical listed after each title is where the story first appeared. See BIBLIOGRAPHY  for a more detailed publication history. ss = short story ff = flash fiction mf = micro-fiction Current (2021-present) Moon Masks ( Weird Fiction Quarterly 2024) - ff Love Child ( Weird Fiction Quarterly  2024; collaboration with Manuel Paul Arenas) - ff The Thing at the Dream Gate ( JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2024; flash fiction accepted as prose poem) - ff In Dreams ( Flash Digest 2024; prose poem accepted as flash fiction) - ff Dam Bones ( Weird Fiction Quarterly 2024) - ff Lord, I'm Comin' Home To You ( Weird Fiction Quarterly 2023) - ff Ghoul of the Ash ( Weird Fiction Quarterly  2023) - ff Slishra-Ew ( Weird Fiction Quarterly  2023; prose poem accepted as flash fiction) - ff The Lumberjack's Beard ( Weird Fiction Quarterly  2023) - ff Ynè-Kee's Journey ( Weird Fiction Q...

These are my science fiction, fantasy, and horror poems. The periodical listed after each title is where the poem first appeared (outside my books). See BIBLIOGRAPHY  for a more detailed publication history. pp = prose poem Current (2021-present) Honorary God ( Spectral Realms 2026) - pp Exiled Imp, The (non-extant) - pp Rise and the Fall, The (non-extant) - pp Kaffeklubben Island (non-extant) - pp Haul Away Moe (non-extant) - pp Figures (website exclusive) - pp Variations on the I Ching (with Jennifer Crow) ( Eternal Haunted Summer 2024) Fortune's Faces (with Jennifer Crow; unpublished) The Thing at the Dream Gate ( JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature  2024; flash fiction accepted as prose poem) - pp Walking the Suburb ( Yellow Mama Webzine 2024) Winter Solstice ( unpublished) Not a Writer ( Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024) In Dreams ( Flash Digest 2024; prose poem accepted as flash fiction) - pp How Some People Disappear ( S...