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never mind they were wolves.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by Chris Farago.

I was with, teaching them to
darn their own skin in case of
a mishap among the pliant furs.
one of them told me no we’re fine,
dial back the fanaticism to a three—
we’ll edit our lore and make you
an honorary wolf if you just
shut the fuck about disaster
for a few minutes.  I told them
I can’t do that:  worry is my fuel
and my being and my snuff.
I never wanted to be a wolf anyway.

what to do if you are in distress.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by Chris Farago. lie flat. taste the earth, or tequila, or something with a connection to the future.  the world is a magic eye puzzle and you have no focus.  focus. all of your eyes are magical, so you can see anything.  look at your old smoky mezcal self and carry on.  pick up a […]

Blessings.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by David Bolton. weeding can be good for the soul. clean sheets put the body to sleep. a hug with love cleanses the mind. kindness is a building block to wisdom. art makes for an interesting life. humility leads to clarity. poetry can touch the soul. music takes one to heaven. grandchildren keep one young. […]

The Airplane.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by Virginia Bell. sits on the dash in the dust like a fallen angel like a mother I keep it there thin slip of balsa, the ballast of two paper wings faded, folded just so the tail as if wicked from a butterfly you made it for a boy who was not of your body […]

Strangers in strange lands.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by Cliff Beck. Feeling the pain of injustice and loss tears run hot in the tracks etched into your face as you trudge through a desolate space hunched against a world that doesn’t care and ignores the despair which cuts to the bone trapping you in congealed emotion; disconnected, bereft and alone. You feel their […]

What I Left Behind.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by Lana Hechtman Ayers. What I left behind was the night sea, sand cool as glass on my bare feet, the sweet smell of cedar trees ashore, a short stroll to the place I called home, the last room where you still loved me.  

The New Garden.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by Charles Holdefer. Outskirts of Pskov, 1569   In a clearing beside a stand of birch trees, Ivan the Terrible surveyed a bubbling cauldron of rabbits and waited for his son, Fyodor the Not So Bad, to stop talking. When would he shut up? “You see, Father, a man in your position needs a pastime. […]

A Field Trip to the Dark Woods.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by Nick Engelfried. There is a mountain range in the far northwest corner of Montana, just below the Canadian border, where trees of assorted sizes and species grow jumbled together in dense stands and the fungi and strange, pale flowers living on the forest floor exist in perpetual shade. It is a dank, twiggy forest, […]

A Blessing of Tears.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by D. A. Hosek. They smell it before they see it: the reek of the monkey house mingled with the stench of death. They glimpse emaciated bodies of the barely distinguishable living and dead, yellow-grey skin in dirty blue and white striped unforms before the order comes down from Lieutenant Perry: The squad is to […]

How “Mother Persia” Got Made.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by Zhinia Noorian. I was working on my PhD dissertation on the Persian female poet Parvin E’tesami, when Brian Griffith asked me to help him with his book project on the history of Iran’s women. Brian is an independent thinker and historian who is interested in women and their roles in shaping different cultures. The […]

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  • Who Was Dorothy?
  • Those Evil Spirits.
  • The Screaming Baboon.
  • Her.
  • A Tale of Persistence.
  • A Conversation with Steve Hugh Westenra.
  • Person Number Twelve.
  • Dream Shapes.
  • Cannon Beach.
  • The Muse.
  • Spring.
  • The Greatness that was Greece.
  • 1966, NYC; nothing like it.
  • Sun Shower.
  • The Withering Weight of Being Perceived.
  • Broken Clock.
  • Confession.
  • Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse.
  • Sometimes you die, I mean that people do.
  • True (from “My Life with Dogs”).
  • Fragmentary musings on birds and bees.
  • 12 Baking Essentials to Always Have in Your Poetry.
  • Broad Street.
  • A Death in Alexandria.
  • My Forked Tongue.
  • Swan Lake.
  • Long Division.
  • Singing against the muses.
  • Aphorisms from “What Remains to Be Said”.

In The News.

That cult classic pirate/sci fi mash up GREENBEARD, by Richard James Bentley, is now a rollicking audiobook, available from Audible.com. Narrated and acted by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio, you’ll be overwhelmed by the riches and hilarity within.

“Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges is your typical seventeenth-century Cambridge-educated lawyer turned Caribbean pirate, as comfortable debating the virtues of William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and compound interest as he is wielding a cutlass, needling archrival Henry Morgan, and parsing rum-soaked gossip for his next target. When a pepper monger’s loose tongue lets out a rumor about a fleet loaded with silver, the Captain sets sail only to find himself in a close encounter of a very different kind.

After escaping with his sanity barely intact and his beard transformed an alarming bright green, Greybagges rallies The Ark de Triomphe crew for a revenge-fueled, thrill-a-minute adventure to the ends of the earth and beyond.

This frolicsome tale of skullduggery, jiggery-pokery, and chicanery upon Ye High Seas is brimming with hilarious puns, masterful historical allusions, and nonstop literary hijinks. Including sly references to Thomas Pynchon, Treasure Island, 1940s cinema, and notable historical figures, this mélange of delights will captivate readers with its rollicking adventure, rich descriptions of food and fashion, and learned asides into scientific, philosophical, and colonial history.”

THE SUPERGIRLS is back, revised and updated!

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In The News.

Newport Public Library hosted a three part Zoom series on Visionary Fiction, led by Tod.  

And we love them for it, too.

The first discussion was a lively blast. You can watch it here. The second, Looking Back to Look Forward can be seen here.

The third was the best of all. Visions of the Future, with a cast of characters including poets, audiobook artists, historians, Starhawk, and Mary Shelley. Among others. Link is here.

In the News.

SNOTTY SAVES THE DAY is now an audiobook, narrated by Last Word Audio’s mellifluous Colby Elliott. It launched May 10th, but for a limited time, you can listen for free with an Audible trial membership. So what are you waiting for? Start listening to the wonders of how Arcadia was born from the worst section of the worst neighborhood in the worst empire of all the worlds since the universe began.

In The News.

If you love audio books, don’t miss the new release of REPORT TO MEGALOPOLIS, by Tod Davies, narrated by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio. The tortured Aspern Grayling tries to rise above the truth of his own story, fighting with reality every step of the way, and Colby’s voice is the perfect match for our modern day Dr. Frankenstein.

In The News.

Mike Madrid dishes on Miss Fury to the BBC . . .

Tod on the Importance of Visionary Fiction

Check out this video of “Beyond Utopia: The Importance of Fantasy,” Tod’s recent talk at the tenth World-Ecology Research Network Conference, June 2019, in San Francisco. She covers everything from Wind in the Willows to the work of Kim Stanley Robinson, with a look at The History of Arcadia along the way. As usual, she’s going on about how visionary fiction has an important place in the formation of a world we want and need to have.

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