icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live? tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

"Is there a ghost in this room right now? I said, giving the living room a once over. I don’t think you want to know, he said with a pained expression on his face. Also, I prefer the term spirit." Another great story. Go read! NO DRAMA, by joshua animalbloodmagazine.com/features/no-dr…

“It’s called heterochromia. Dudes fucking love it,” she says, staring me down before blinking hard and lizard-like. This is just brutal. Stark, sad, amazing writing. Fourteen, by Jennifer Ostopovich hobartpulp.com/web_features/f…

The October issue has been published. Please visit and read the fine stories I've had the chance to share. - theairgonautblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/oct…

"I pull my head from the original table I started at the previous evening and admire the puke-splatter painting on my Stüssy. No music. No people. No friends. Bright-ass lights." —Yes, THEODORE WALLBANGER 🎈Flipping frowns upside down dumbopress.com/short-stories/…

New Doughboy prose original out today BULL mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-…

🎈💟🎈💟🎈💟🎈💟🎈💟🎈 The birth of Smile Central is HERE Long live zany prose 🎈 a.co/d/ineFdlJ

I casually mentioned to my gf that Larry Brown (my favorite author) got his first story ever published in Easyriders magazine. She surprised me with a MINT copy of it!! Yes, THAT, Larry Brown. (Joe, Father & Son, etc…) She’s the best. That is all.

Huge thanks for the swag DirtbagWriting (Closed)! And thanks for giving my work a great home! 🙌🏻

DIRTBAG 13, Matthew Kasper’s story “Good Guys Like Us.” open.substack.com/pub/dirtbagwri…

New publisher listing for: Dirtbag DirtbagWriting (Closed) (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying) duotrope.com/magazine/dirtb… #WritingCommunity

" But things took a tailspin when I forwarded him my “Ezekiel, Mississippi Letters,” my account of this shitbag town and what all goes on here. " DIHP celebrates the return of the singular DirtbagWriting (Closed) with new #fiction for November | doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mike-i…

Favorite part, without question, is when the entirety of the American Ninja/Michael Dudikoff canon is tastefully alluded to.

Gabriella D'Italia’s memoir, GETTING DRESSED IN THE DARK, is out now from @unsolicitedpress, and I wrote about it for Heavy Feather Review! A dazzling contemplative journey for anyone with a material art practice alongside your writing practice #bookreview heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/11/17/dit…

Honest Advice from My Diddy at the Rattlesnake Rodeo in Ezekiel, Mississippi by Mike Itaya maudlinhouse.net/honest-advice-…

Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Benjamin Drevlow. Enjoy. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/blog/

today is a wonderful day to buy a shirt all sales go straight to helping Josh pay his bills presale ends 12/3