Zenarchery

I just reposted my microjournalism story “Dark Miracle”, by request from several readers. I no longer have all the images I embedded in the story, but the text is there for you to read, if you’re so interested.
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I just finished the first draft of a Cthulhu comic script I’ve been working on with my buddy Josh Wagner (whose comic book Fiction Clemens is appearing this month, and you need to go buy it, or I’ll totally kick your ass). It’s the first real piece of fiction I’ve finished in a long time. [...]

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[This is pure fiction. I never saw any bands when I was in high school that got famous later, though I did see Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam in the parking lot of Tower Records in Missoula, MT. I recognized him, but I didn't know from where -- I thought he was just a friend [...]

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[Holy shit, I'm over 10,000 words into this. I haven't gotten that far into any fiction in a long time. I know these excerpts don't make any sense, by the way. And they're not in direct linear order. There's lots of stuff in between. Also, can anybody name the Okkervil River reference in this one?]
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[Another excerpt, which might give you a clue as to what sort of story this is.]
I don’t know if it was real, if it was part of everything that happened later, if it was a dream. I don’t know.
I got up out of bed and squinted the sleep out of my eyes. The sky was [...]

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[Here's a little excerpt for you, from something I'm messing around with. I don't know if this will ever see the light of day as part of a larger work, but I like it a lot, so I'm putting it here. Most of the details are autobiographical, with one exception: I was never skinny.]
Anyone who’s [...]

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Some of you know this, but I’m formally announcing it as of now: I’m serving as the editor-in-chief of Volette, a new and badass travel blog created by my friend and colleague Joe Tangredi. Volette is going to be my kind of travel blog, which means it’s going to be weird and cool and will [...]

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(Sorry, the title made me grin.)
So I used to host a poetry open-mike. I like some poetry. Not all of it. Not even much of it. But here are some links to poems I really like. I realize none of this is particularly obscure or controversial, but hey, you might find something here you’re not [...]

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An amusing piece in McSweeney’s, written by my colleague er, I mean editor boss Andrew Kiraly.
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Written for a girl I was in love with, a long time ago.
FLOATING WORLD
The others are sleeping now,
Cold as comfort in their Eddie Bauer blankets
And the loft at the top of the honest Yankee cabin
Where Bowery mothers come to tan their ankles in mountain sun
And kiss the air that is not thick with bass rhythms [...]

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