CRUSH OF THE MONTH – HOUSEFIRE – or the one where I post a lot of links

Housefire are a literary journal that make my eyes hurt with pleasure. I was introduced to them through the gorgeous writer Shannon Peil (also the editor of the lit journal amphibi.us) who asked if I wanted in on this prompt/chain title thingy this journal was orchestrating. I’d never heard of them before but trust Shannon’s judgement enough just to say yes because he asked.

Next thing I knew they’d published my piece ‘Making Connections‘, the title I chose from the three that Shannon sent me and I started reading through their archives. He then wrote an AMAZING piece from one of my title suggestions ‘Perfect Skin‘.

The work on there is some of the best around that I read on the web. No fooling. They are fresh.

They are related to the wonderful journal ‘Metazen‘ another one of my faves. How, I don’t know. I’m too scared to ask.

The completely adorable and off-kilter editor, Riley Michael Parker, then sent me a prompt in the form of a video and asked me to write a piece of flash fiction immediately after.

This is what he sent me -

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This is what I wrote – ‘The Elvis I Prefer To Masturbate To‘.

Also to be sure to check out Riley’s ‘bios’ of the writers underneath each piece. Works of goddamn art.

Housefire’s home is here – Housefire

And you can follow them on Facebook here – Housefire

I highly recommend doing both.

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Shauna was a Punk & New Wave Vomit

New Wave Vomit is amazing. The words themselves that go up there are impressive enough but the art that helmswoman ana c. puts into each background is just the kind of thing I love. Strong, bold, distracting and too damn cool for school. She’s been kind enough to publish my short story ‘Shauna was a Punk‘ on her site today. And I feel pretty fucking chuffed to be the 57th.

Also check out 56th while you’re there. My writer/editor buddy Shannon Peil has his awesome words up there too.