So this is the part in the movie where we discover our 5 yo has been inhabited by some sort of demon, yes?

I often wonder how much we make depends on small random things. If it rained today. If a finch sang. If decades ago, our lover suddenly knocked, and their blue raincoat slumped to the floor. Perhaps this life is stitched with chance, and art is our astonished applause?

Can’t we just collectively will this into being. I mean c’mon.

These might be a little heavy

There's an author I admire who tells us to pull stories straight from our guts with a pair of rusty pliers. I took the advice, and now I'm happy to share the cover of my crime fiction novella HARD MOUNTAIN CLAY, due in January from Shotgun Honey - Flash subs now open! amazon.com/dp/B0BLJ3MJ9W

READ FIRST CUT BOOKS #1-3... 1 - Poems for Ghosts in Empty Tenement Windows I Thought I Saw Once by Stephen J. Golds 📕 bookgoodies.com/a/B08NYYFR78 2 - So Fast, So Close by William R. Soldan 📗 bookgoodies.com/a/B08RBC3JXZ 3 - Baptism by Fire by Amy-Jean Muller 📙 bookgoodies.com/a/B08TSLL8C3

Something strange appeared on my doorstep the other day. But these are pre-one-last-formatting fix. The new ones should be here in a couple days for those I’ve promised copies to. Till then, hats off to Southernmost Books—these are real pretty 😎

Check out my man’s work, too. No one does it quite like C. W. 🔥

Submit 1-3 unpublished poems in a Word doc to [email protected] + a brief author bio by 1ST DECEMBER for a chance to be included in our final issue of Outcast Press Poetry. Amy-Jean Muller and I can't wait to read your work! 🖤

✨ NEW RELEASE: SMALL ASCENSIONS by William R. Soldan ✨ A stunning new collection of poetry and prose poetry by the brilliant William R. Soldan, out now with Southernmost Books: southernmostbooks.com/store/f/willia… #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrycommunity

Hey, here’s some books I liked. You might like them too. Go on, get some William R. Soldan Stephen King Gabino Iglesias Nick Kolakowski @mp_hicks Ali Seay 🎃 -✨ Updates only in 2024 (mostly 😬 )✨ and Christopher Farnsworth Long live crime fiction! Long live the dark stuff!

A great surprise after a few days away from the internet 😎

He may not look like it, but Kenneth Rexroth-faced Eeyore is proud as hell of Southernmost Books for putting out its first two books. Third title TBA…

I love this idea 😎

Meagan Lucas Curtis Ippolito William R. Soldan @chrishardingth1 I loved Undone Valley! It felt so real it was like I'd taken a vacation to Ohio, though not so much a "vacation" as being keel-hauled under an 18-wheeler down the highway from Toledo to Cincinnati. Gritty, hard-hitting rural noir.

UNDONE VALLEY by William R. Soldan is available from CJ Press 🔥: cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/books.html

Day 17 - rust belt/Midwestern gritty (gritty!!!) short stories to remind you that your family (even your weird uncle) isn't really that bad ....

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Thanks, Meagan. You’re a gem 😎🖤

Cheers, Wayne. I’m still kicking. Just taking time away from social media for a while. I appreciate you thinking of me. Hope you’re well, my friend.