i hate these people

occasional poetic sleight

a slanted situation of a place - new work on monday or tuesday

Hey, I'm Roman. Poet, novelist. Putting words together in unfamiliar ways and helping you scratch the itch.

Peace to the Wanderer

Essays, revelations, and recommendations. Everything I couldn’t fit in a verse and chorus.

Come witness the uncomfortable display of a confused and worried person as they ruminate to themselves.

I am joy before death. Joy before death annihilates me.

Pseudonymous contemporary fiction. Bildungsromans, romance, humor and local color. Essays on themes relating to the fiction.

Free form ramblings in magnetic ink.

making sense of it

Writing about things I love & the people and moments that have shaped me

Psychedelic stories for adventurous readers. Proceed with caution.

Fiction and nonfiction from the Midwest

"The new bull of meaning" in literature, poetry, and critical book reviews.

A place for me to talk to the world

I aim to delight, inspire and provoke particular minds. Do you like reading poetic memoir with a spotlight on sex, death and the arts?

Awful but cheerful.

brief glimpse of how someone like me ends up like this

Weird fiction for weirder times.

Horror | Noir | Speculative | Westerns

travel writing and other things

thinly plotted

archive/experimentation.

A meditation on Holocaust memory, forgetfulness and what it means to be responsible for other people's stories. Also, books and writing.

Your favorite Sunday newsletter.

Corn-fed culture from the U.S. heartland

sketches, flash fiction, musings and observations

essays, memoir, food analogies

This is my commitment, my modern manifesto I'm doing it for all of us who never got the chance

I write esoteric fiction. Here I brain dump about other things.

prose from the mouth of a sacrificial lamb

molly's fiction/essay/poetry/whatever blog. trite and sophomoric. check me out.

squint and you'll get it

Mid-afternoon essays. Lyrical snacks. Confessional and fictional. Apologetic and cheesy. English y Español.

The Song Factory is the place to go to learn how to write better songs, and finish songs more quickly. Much of my advice also applies to other kinds of writing. Music fans will find ideas here to make their music listening more interesting.