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A couple fellow Cutlies (www.chuckpalahniuk.net members are called Culties, the site is called The Cult; I'm not at risk of drinking tainted Kool-Aid, I promise) very recently started a new online lit mag site called Lobster Cult. It's too early to tell what sort of material will become their foundation, but if my personal knowledge of these guys, Phil Jourdan and Jack Joslin, is an indicator, stories will be transgressive, brutal, dark, with bits of humor tossed in. The "bits of humor" part is where I come in, I think (I hope). Lobster Cult is kind enough to host the first two chapters from my as-yet-unpublished novella AS A MACHINE AND PARTS. This novella marks the deepest I've stepped into the illustrative metafiction world, in which I use the physical structure of the text as a way to tell the story. Take a peek at the first two chapters for…

Over at Outsider Writers, Pat King, etiquette aficionado and all-around glorious specimen, is heading up an OW Chapbook Series, designed to paper and bind voices of the otherwise electronically chained OWC editors. So, what the hell does this have to do with me? How can I wring the appropriate ego from this post? Two ways: I am an OWC editor, meaning that a fiction chapbook of my own waits in the pipeline. More on this in the future, you can be sure. For now, let this description suffice: Mitchell, a twenty-something Cougar Cub with a midlife girlfriend named Marsha, wakes each morning, slightly more machine, slightly less human. As his condition progresses he looses his capacity for human emotion, and potentially with it Marsha. “As a Machine and Parts” (working title) is a story of Mitchell’s struggle to find out which assembly line he belongs to. Pat asked me to…

A preview of AS A MACHINE AND PARTS at Lobster Cult

David Blaine’s new chapbook…and I helped!