The Jar Effect

I wrote a song that transforms the listener into a glass jar. I threw it together on a synthesizer. Everyone thinks I used maracas for…

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Five Questions with Matthew Mahaney

Kirby Johnson: First I must mention how strikingly beautiful Your Attraction to Sharp Machines is. The book feels like a diary with its padded hardback cover and the inserts inside. What was it like to work with BatCat Press to determine the form this novella would ultimately take, and did you have an idea of how you wanted to present this story before hand?

Matthew Mahaney: Thanks. I remember asking Deanna, the BatCat editor, how much input I’d have, soon after she told me they’d chosen Sharp Machines from their open reading period.

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Writers on The Internet: I’m God: Online Self-Promotion for Writers and Rappers

When we first started dating, my boyfriend said that I needed to maintain both a Twitter account and a blog. “You don’t even have a…

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Being Alone

On a beach on Lake Superior, trying to make sense of anything, Anna said, “Maybe we just didn’t love each other enough.” Waves slapped the…

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Writers on the Internet: The Age of Twitter

At sixteen, my best friend sobbed when I told him that my family was moving out of state. I hadn’t expected such a response, and…

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Writers on the Internet: Big Bright Brash World

My very first website was a geocities page with an electric green background and blue writing, a shrine to my tween crush, Jonathan Taylor Thomas,…

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Together We Can Bury It by Kathy Fish

Together We Can Bury It by Kathy Fish Lit Pub Books Softcover, 162 pages ISBN: 978-1-937662-04-2 The title of Kathy Fish’s flash fiction collection, Together…

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