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  • Mermaidens

    MermaidensThe thing about mermaids is, they have a tail problem.It seems they either want to get rid of their tail so they can walk on land,Or they want to get their tail back, having somehow lost it so they could be on land.Or they fell in love with someone who doesn't have a tail...It never seems to end.All we know for sure is that it's a problem...And that there's always a tale.19 Tales About ... Read more

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  • Victims of a Failed Civics

    by Ken Poyner ...
    Speculative poetry describing surreal interactions between the individual and his or her society. A man who is a novelty because he is always on fire. A boy who can summon snakes. A man who feels a connection to the wolf at his door. A daughter who is turning into a mule. An alcoholic town that refuses to give in to advancing temperance leaguers. Individual poems originally appeared in places like ... Read more

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  • Science Is Not Enough

    by Ken Poyner ...
    A collection of speculative poetry previously published in places such as Analog, Asimov's, Bewildering Stories, Gyroscope, Mobius, and others*.* Musings on First Contact, robot Intelligence, technology socialization, human to machine interactions and moral compromises. ... Read more

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  • Stone the Monsters, or Dance

    by Ken Poyner ...
    Speculative poetry by multiple Pushcart Prize nominee Ken Poyner, originally appearing in such journals as "The Iowa Review", "The Indiana Review", "Sequoia", "Sou'Wester" and others. The end of the world. Families dealing with the impossible. Indifference versus terror. Good and evil meet under a streetlight and discuss each other's bad habits. A carnivorous lawn. Communities dealing with their ... Read more

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  • Lessons From Lingering Houses

    by Ken Poyner ...
    Speculative poetry collected from places like "The Alaska Quarterly Review", "The Iowa Review", "G.W. Review", "Inlet" and elsewhere. Things to do on the world's last day. Teaching a younger brother to drown. A woman who appeases dragons. The parking lot attendant at the time portal. The deference afforded rainmakers. Eighty-four poems to spur the imagination and expand the horizon. ... Read more

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  • Engaging Cattle

    by Ken Poyner ...
    A professional cattle tuner falls for a beautiful clothesline sander. A member of the resistance warns his confederates of the efficacy of a new decimal collector. Genetically modified corn goes rogue. A man exhausts his quota of words and has to seek more on the black market. A superhero retires to a remote village, where he grows weary of being asked to find missing cattle. A generic android ... Read more

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  • Avenging Cartography

    by Ken Poyner ...
    Fifty-five short, provocative fictions, previously published separately in more than two dozen literary magazines and sites, A young woman dating an insect. Houses that migrate, forcing their owners to introduce themselves to neighbors. A man confronting mammoth rustlers. A village that builds its houses from books. A man finds a use for the inter-dimensional gap he has discovered in his backyard. ... Read more

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  • The Revenge of the House Hurlers

    by Ken Poyner ...
    Carnivorous butterflies; a guild of deconstruction workers who feel unappreciated; the un-feathered desire lurking within a poultry farmer; nurturing the love of possession after death; what your faithful closet monster might be doing while you are away; the finer points of living to two hundred; and other tales of the possible, the impossible, the magnificent, the mundane, and the astounding. ... Read more

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  • The Book of Robot

    by Ken Poyner ...
    Speculative poetry exploring the development of emotion and the sense of self in robots. Description of the intersection between human and machine in modern free verse. Self-image, political will, the sense of community, the sense of loneliness. Individually, poems have appeared in "Analog", "Asimov's", "Rattle", "The Adirondack Review", and other literary and genre magazines. ... Read more

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  • Constant Animals

    by Ken Poyner ...
    Forty-two exotic, unique, and brazen short fictions. Amusing, thought provoking, eerie. Collected from touchstone webzines and magazines across the literary spectrum. A different perspective. Life, as explained by your holographic half uncle; life, seen through misproportioned and curmudgeonly eyes. How one's day might go in a different dimension. ... Read more

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  • Winter's Last Apple

    by Ken Poyner ...
    A collection of poems, prose poems, and micro-fiction pieces, speculative and surreal, which touch upon various aspects of villainy, saintliness, debauchery, responsibility and discovery. These pieces have appeared in as diverse a swath of magazines as "Asimov's Science Fiction", "Grievous Angel", "Unbroken Journal", "Rune Bear", "Pank" and dozens of others. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Blood, Tin, Straw

    Poems

    by Sharon Olds ...
    WINNER OF THE PATERSON POETRY PRIZE • A transcendent collection of poems about the ecstatic and brutal side of a woman’s experience—from the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San Francisco Chronicle)."She has written without embarrassment or apology, with remarkable passion and savagery and nerve, poems ... Read more

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