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MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS & JUVENILIA

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..."  (

OTHER POETRY

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 Current (2021-present) Three Poems Found in the Back of a Book  ( unpublished ) Skugge (non-extant; composed on paper and spoken aloud before being offered to the fire in my wood-burning stove) Untitled poem for Skaði, the Norse goddess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…" (non-extant) Pensive   (first publishe

SPECULATIVE FICTION

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) Love Child ( Weird Fiction Quarterly  2024; collaboration with Manuel Paul Arenas) - 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 Quarterly  2022) - ff Olivegoyle (The Gargoylicon: Imaginings & Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art; 2022 anthology from Mind's Eye Publications ) - ff Cephalopod Transmiss

SPECULATIVE POETRY

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) Walking the Suburb Winter Solstice Not a Writer ( Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024) In Dreams ( Flash Digest 2024; accepted as flash fiction) - pp I Walk the Spinney With You ( I Become The Beast 2024) How Some People Disappear Venom and Bite Eternal Love, Eternal Night (The Vampiricon; 2023 anthology from Mind's Eye Publications ) - pp Conjoined Creatures (The Vampiricon; 2023 anthology from Mind's Eye Publications ) Wormholes (non-extant) Synchronous Fireflies (non-extant) Earth's Reclamation/Next Up ( Star*Line 2023) The Great and Final Feast ( Spectral Realms  2024) - pp They Sing Me Along ( Space & Time Magazine 2023) - pp Mother Nature and the AI Poet ( JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginat