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Yellow Mama Webzine has accepted my horror story “The White Nothing” for publication.
Says Cindy: “OMG, what a GREAT story!!! Perfect for [Yellow Mama’s] 100th issue, ideal for Halloween!”
Happy to oblige, Cindy.
“My Sphincter Bleeds for Chartreuse Anteaters” Accepted by “The Metaworker”
My odd little tale entitled, “My Sphincter Bleeds for Chartreuse Anteaters” was accepted by The Metaworker, “an internet literary magazine where great stories are forged.”
Reading at F-Bomb, August 4, 2023
UPDATE:
To quote the famous line from Gilda Radner’s SNL character Emily Litella: “Ah … Never Mind.” The F-Bomb Reading is actually on August 4 at 6:30 PM.
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I’ll be joining my friends Niles Reddick, Zvi Sesling and other writers at F-Bomb Online Friday evening, July 28 at 6:30 PM where we’ll read our fiction.
Contact me if you would like the Zoom link.
Exhaustipated
“You’re Evil”
Photo, Micro Stories Featured In “Watertown Lit Squad’s Poets’ & Writers’ Sampler 2023”
I’m pleased that Plowshares‘ DeWitt Henry is featuring a number of my micro stories in Watertown Lit Squad’s Poets’ & Writers’ Sampler 2023.
Included are: Blue, Gray, Inner Child, Justice, Look Away, When Your Girlfriend Has Left You, and Wishing Well.
The Sampler’s cover image is my photograph, “Dancers.”
[Barb Ariel Cohen’s poems are also featured in Sampler: Cold Stand Down, And When the Light Is Past, Night Silhouettes, Fearless Path, Clouds, and Poise.]“Words to the Wise”
Barb Ariel Cohen in Somerville Times’ “Lyrical Somerville”
“Boston Winterscape” Accepted by Cosmic Daffodil Journal
The journal Cosmic Daffodil Journal has accepted my color photograph Boston Winterscape for publication in an upcoming edition.
[Cosmic Daffodil] is born out of love for art; poetry, fiction & non-fiction, short stories, paintings, sculptures, everything, and anything creative.”
Happy Birthday, Robert Heinlein!
It’s the birthday of science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, born in Butler, Missouri (1907). He wrote over 50 novels and collections of short stories over a span of four decades. He’s best known for his novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), a cult classic about a boy who is born during the first manned mission to Mars. He’s raised by Martians, then returns to Earth, starts a church, and preaches free love.
Heinlein began writing in the mid-1930s, while he was recovering from an accident from his days in the Navy. He started out writing novels for young adults, but they were so advanced that they were usually published outside the U.S. as novels for adults. Heinlein once said, “Kids want tough books, chewy books — not pap.”
He called his books “speculative fiction” rather than “science fiction,” in the tradition of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. He tried to write about events that could actually happen, taking into consideration everything we know about the natural laws of the universe. He wrote about things like atomic bombs, cloning, and gay marriage years before they became realities. Not all of his predictions came true, though. In 1952, he wrote an article called “Life in 2000 A.D.,” in which he predicted that we would have cures for cancer, the common cold, and tooth decay; there would be men who had visited all parts of the solar system; and new technology would make all existing houses obsolete.
Heinlein said: “Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.”
—The Writer’s Almanac via Zvi A. Sesling