Thursday, January 31, 2008

My Poem is Up at Aberrant Dreams!

Click here to read it! (Scroll down to mine).

And feel free to read the other content as well. ;)

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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Diana, Discovered

You're lovely and amazing--in your face
is light unlike the heavens' famous glow,
and in your eyes as in infinite space
sparkle such stars as only angels know;

Your body is a playground of the sense
whose secret spaces offer such delights
as grottoes of the Goddess, under dense
green veils where satyrs dance on summer nights;

And I, an Actaeon, drawn by the sounds
of pipes, the sensuous music of your sigh
creep through the bush and, crouched among my hounds,
steal there the naked glory of your thigh--

When years have passed and all my hunts have ceased,
your beauty still will turn me to a beast.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Not as Single Spies...

But in battalions! Or at least in duos.

I learned last night that my sonnet "Langham's Pond" (#225, from December 4, 2006 on The Sonnet Project) will be published in the next issue of the speculative fiction/poetry publication Aberrant Dreams. Not only that, but they're paying me a dollar a line for it! Paid poetry--nothing to sneeze at, you know.

If I read them right the poetry only appears in the webzine version of the mag (with an option for print, though it doesn't sound like they typically do that), so I'll post a link here when it's up, which should be at the end of January or early February. Of course I like having a paper-bound copy to hold in my grubby paws, but still--fourteen bucks! :)

Two poetry publications, and not even through the first month of the year. I hope it's an omen. Guess I'd better send some more stuff out!

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

If not for the influence of my lovely wife...

This is TOTALLY what my house would look like.

Oh holy crap, I can't believe all the wonderful stuff this guy has on his walls. WANT. WANT SO MUCH. Mr. Fink of Scar Stuff has the house of my geek-boy dreams.

And while I'm posting fun stuff to look at, check out these "book sculptures" by Thomas Allen--pulp fiction covers exactoed and posed and...well, I can't explain it, it's just wonderful. Check it out:

Pulp Fiction by Thomas Allen



Oh, and by the way, I'm a poet now. Wheee!

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Monday, January 14, 2008

For those who might be interested

Cruise on over to my poetry blog The Sonnet Project to read about some awesome poetry-related news concerning yours truly and an upcoming publication...

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

New Year, New Reviews

Wow, it's 2008 and people are STILL reading The Undead anthologies?

I kid. I'm glad they're creeping across the country like a zombie plague, and I'm even more glad that people are still saying nice things about my stories in them. Like this one, from SkullRing.org:

Scott Standridge’s “’Til the Lord Comes”- A touching tale about a mortuary assistant who is either blessed or cursed with having to talk the dead back onto the slab in time for their funerals. If this bittersweet tale of caring and loss doesn’t get to you, then you have no heart.


You hear that, YOU HEARTLESS BASTARDS? :)

It's become more and more clear to me over the past several months that what I really want, out of writing, out of love, out of sex, out of anything, is an external validation of my personal worth, which I don't get internally because of my extremely impaired self-image. Is that sad and pathetic, or is that pretty normal for artistic types? I'm working up an essay on this subject, though whether I post it or not remains to be seen.

Anyway, happy new year!

Please like me.

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