#016 – "Shell Game" by Will Dempsey keep-planning.net/text/016

heinrich & angelika hoerle, "wallpaper sample" (distemper on paper, 1919)

#017 – "3 Poems from 'Lyrics'" by Israel A. Bonilla (Israel A. Bonilla) keep-planning.net/text/017

I have three new poems in KEEP PLANNING (submissions open), one of those rare magazines that publish against the current. Grateful to david c. porter (NTTN out now!!!), its judicious editor.

that's right

#018 – "Sharp Dresser" by Hera Blake keep-planning.net/text/018

Krsto Hegedušić, "A Flood" (oil on canvas, 1932)

#019 – "The Third Draft of a Short Story titled “Forty-Four” Including Notes from the Author’s Girlfriend in Brackets and His Responses in Endnotes" by Jon Doughboy (Jon Doughboy) keep-planning.net/text/019

The latest prose endeavor launched from my humble yurt

Short form pyrotechnics. Incredible stuff.

Writers are artists, not cytologists. [This is a worthy story and I’m rooting for him]

If Inception was a film about fighting with your babe Incredible

New story out yesterday KEEP PLANNING (submissions open) ICYMI. A couple has it out in parenthetical comments and endnotes while a woman confronts her exes during state-mandated therapy keep-planning.net/text/019

I read this during my lunch break today and it's so so good. Great day for prose. Almost makes me forget a kid threw a chair at another kid's head today.

don't think i've ever stated this explicitly but i'm very much interested in publishing essays, criticism, other non-fiction stuff over on KEEP PLANNING (submissions open) – pretty much it's just gotta be interesting to read. so if you've got something like that rattling around your folders...

still just as interested in publishing stories and poetry and whatnot, of course. but it's a very form-agnostic project and, more to the point, the main limiting factor of late has been submission volume, so i want to ensure there's no misapprehensions about what i'm looking for

I recently wrote short prose piece for KEEP PLANNING (submissions open), "Oaxacan King Kong", which features a cardón cactus. The tens of people who read it might be interested to know that the scale of this picture is not exaggerated: keep-planning.net/text/004

many writers look at who's already been published on KEEP PLANNING (submissions open) and blanche in fear, convinced they have no place in such a rogue's gallery of today's great literary minds. but a brave few send me an email anyway