Author Jay Sturner

Current (2021-present) "If you don't seek a little beauty..."  (thoughts & observations) "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 umor) "Friends..."  (h umor) "From my point of view..."  (...

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, as these  poems were either lost, destroyed, or only exist  as hand-written drafts in scattered locations . Current (2021-present) Three Poems Found in the Back of a Book  ( unpublished ) Skugge (non-extant; composed on paper and spoken aloud before being offered to the fire in my wood-burning stove) Untitled poem for Skaði, the Norse goddess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  SHADOWS AND SPARKS  in 2024) Not a Writer (first published in  Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction & Fantasy  in 2024) The World Wide Wound (abandoned) In Shadow (first published in SHADOWS AND SPARKS  in 2024) "When morning stretches her arms in a burst of light…"...

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) Figures Variations on the I Ching (with Jennifer Crow) ( Eternal Haunted Summer 2024) Fortune's Faces (with Jennifer Crow) 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 Not a Writer ( Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024) In Dreams ( Flash Digest 2024; prose poem accepted as flash fiction) - pp I Walk the Spinney With You ( I Become The Beast 2024) How Some People Disappear ( Spaceports & Spidersilk 2024) Venom and Bite ( Yellow Mama Webzine 2024) Eternal Love, Eternal Night (The Vampiricon; 2023 anthology from Mind's Eye Publications ) - pp Conjoined C...