Here’s a sampling of published work. But also check out First of the Month, where I periodically (pun) publish essays, fictions, and pixs.
the CORN standard: a dystopian presidential election
When corn becomes cash, everything in America changes…
Kirkus review says, “(it’s)…an ensuing adventure that’s every bit as odd and desperate as it appears on the surface. …In the tradition of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Myers mocks authority and has his characters deal with fantastical circumstances in a serious manner. Some readers may find the mockery a little heavy-handed at times…others, though, are likely to double over in laughter at such references as “the little known John Phillip Sousa opera I’m White, So Don’t Make Me Red, Cause I’d be Blue.” The story moves rapidly to an ending that’s every bit as strange as its beginning. … An ambitious, quick satire that offers a mixed bag of the cynical and the odd.”
Johnny wants a home, just a regular house with a backyard. Doesn’t matter if it’s in an abandoned development, where the half-empty pool is laced with green water. His mom and dad are okay with it, just as long as they don’t attract the law’s attention. Hell, the kid’s find on Sycamore Avenue will help them stretch the cash from the last con job, give the kid an opportunity to recover from the “accident.” So, for a little while at least, Johnny has his summer home under the Texas sun.
Sad PR…or the Staggering Ambition of God
He waited. He waited three days before buying the train ticket to Chicago. Then He gave his old friend Job a call. Could he water the plants for the next week or so?
tsuri-dōrō – a small journal of haiku and senryū
above the ballpark
a swallow sails unmindful
of the score below
I Know Words. I Have the Best Words. Stupid. (Trumpery & “The Language of the Third Reich”)
Growing Up in an Election Year, or Anyhow…(a real fiction)