Cover for DEEP SPACE DOGFIGHTS uncovered.....

Coming out June 18th. This anthology contains two of my stories FLASHED and WELCOME SORROW.

I will be on the SURREAL SERMONS radio show

Details to follow. I will be discussing one of the most interesting of the urban legends: The Soviet Sleep Experiment.

FLASHED to be published.

It will be my second story in the anthology titled DEEP SPACE DOGFIGHTS from Rogue Planet Press. Coming out soon.

HOUNDS BOUNCE WHEN THEY BARK has been published

My short story HOUNDS BOUNCE WHEN THEY BARK has been published by FARTHER STARS THAN THESE. Thank you Earl Wynn,
http://www.fartherstars.com/2015/05/52115.html

Nothing supernatural but it will terrify you....

Join me on THE CHAIR

https://twitter.com/theCHAIRhorror/status/601753209946898432?cn=ZmF2b3JpdGVfbWVudGlvbmVkX3VzZXI%3D&refsrc=email

AND YET ANOTHER BELATED THANK YOU TO SF SIGNAL

The November 8, 2014 issue highlights and links to my horror story MARBLE EYES as originally published in MICROHORROR. Thank you.

And another belated THANK YOU to SF SIGNAL MAGAZINE 1.16.2015

for highlighting our science fiction tale OPERATION DESTINY originally published and linked to FARTHER STARS THAN THESE.

Belated Thank You to SF SIGNAL MAGAZINE

We only just became aware of this but my story COLD was featured in this best of list FREE SF, FANTASY AND HORROR FICTION FOR 2.28.15. COLD was originally published in Microhorror and the link was so provided. Thank you.

Thank you AUTHOR ALCOVE

For selling my book FEAST OF THE DEAD.

Thank you WILD TEXAS GEAR SHOP

For having my books Ugly Babies #1, Aliens, Sex & Sociopaths: The Best of Surreal Grotesque, The Black Hand Supremacy, Tales For The Toilet, and Corpses Don't Bleed all for sale.

The New Carnage Conservatory is coming...

Get ready for the blood on June 1st. Get ready for a major announcement as well.

We haven't forgotten you or forgotten to post

Just dealing with life, moving from city to city and dealing with a divorce. We are still here and will be going forward. Catch us on Twitter too @josephjpatchen 

The website SHORT OF THE WEEK is reviewed on www.lurid-lit.com

We go movie this week on lurid-lit.com. Not Hollywood---real movies. Independent movies and independent movie shots to be specific. www.lurid-lit.com right now!

Failure, A Vignette

There is little to be said. It is so obvious. Yes. It is so blatantly obvious. So obvious to any self important intellectual. Failure is so many things. Failure is pervasive. Failure is so obvious you smirk at it every turn.

Failure can be a lack of stuff. Failure can be the rut of a daily life. Failure can be accomplishments you feel are boring. Failure is all about vengeance and possessing a desire to deceive and manipulate.

Failure is the branding of the pathetic by those who profess success.

But don't the barometers of comparisons run cold?

Yes, but unlike your base trash level view of what is important0. Unlike the cocky swaggering intellectualism you profess to wallow in, I have learned failure is tied to self-loathing; the skeleton that is the base of the pretty flesh of success.

There is nothing philosophical, theological or spiritual about it.

You'll find out

Anonymous-9 is back on Lurid-lit!!!!

www.lurid-lit.com is back this week with @_Anonymous_9 's DREAMING DEEP; a modern treatment of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos.

THE FALL OF CTHULHU is a hit!!!!

Sale for the anthology are exceeding expectations. Finally some good news in this the darkest of years. Thank you all.