"Retribution of the Deadwooders" Published

 

Planisphere Q has published "Retribution of the  Deadwooders" in the 2022 Fall edition with the theme of the "Undead."  You can obtain a copy from Lulu.com.

Retribution of the Deadwooders Accepted

Planisphere Quarterly has accepted my flash fiction "Retribution of the
Deadwooders" to be published in its Undead Issue  in October.  The story is a bit naughty.

Catch and Release to be Published

 

Bill Anderson photo from Flickr.  Posted as part
of Chesapeake Bay Program.  Limited license.

   My creative nonfiction story "Catch and Release about me and my Dad's fishing misadventures will be published by Glint Literary Journal in December. 

As Thoreau said, "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” 

 

Black Fox Literary Magazine published my flash nonfiction "Writing Advice from the Murder Hornet."  The editor did a great job finding the perfect terrifying photo of wasp.  You can check it out at:

 https://www.blackfoxlitmag.com/2022/06/15/writing-advice-from-the-murder-hornet-by-ps-nolf/

The Dust Devil

 The Dust Devil is included in in Bag of Bones - 206 Word Stories: A Horror Anthology.  You can order this book on Amazon.  All profits goes to a children's charity in Britain.

This was a difficult prose poem to place.    Most of the places rejected it with a personal comment that went like this: 

"Your piece made it to our second round of readings--we thought the voice and the style were unique and created a very vivid atmosphere, which is just the sort of "otherworldliness" accomplished through language that we're going for in our publication. Ultimately, however, we will be passing on the piece."

 This lone little dogie of doggerel starts off:

I’m blowin’ cross the plains and Hell’s acomin’ with me.

Ya can’t run from my ragin' red tower of brimstone.

I’ll whirl ya to the boneyard as the souls of the damned scream.

I kin spin those copper rivets right off the levis of Monkey Ward cowboys till their chaps fall off.

Toss any lost little doggies or dang dinosaruses off the plains. Sand the spots off the pintos.

Dare ya to grin. I’ll scour ya phiz off.

 Language is based on a cowboy diction of terms from the Western US in the late 1800s.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Bag-Bones-Stories-Horror-Anthology-ebook/dp/B09TJNWP6C/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Midnight Shift

 

 Midnight Shift was published  by Zero Readers.

https://www.zeroreaders.com/2021/09/midnight-shift-ps-nolf/

 

 

At the time, the editor was looking for poems about people in the work environment.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was one of the few times I wrote an interesting bio for my writings.

 

"Upon graduating from college, the best paid jobs PS Nolf could find were in factories: stitching crotches in panty hose, heat sealing snow mobile cables, gluing polyurethane parts, greasing ball bearings. Eventually she figured out how to overcome the stigma of a BA and MA in anthropology to find a job in technical writing. Producing technical manuals pre-WYSIWYG had its own hazards. Cut and paste involved an exacto and a paste pot which is how she ended up walking into the nurse’s office with a knife stuck in the top of her foot. Eventually she moved into corporate training and the knife in the back was literal, but just as painful.

What Murder Hornets Teach Us about Writing

 

Murder Hornet:
Source Wikipedia

My essay "What Murder Hornets Teach Us About Writing" will be published by Black Fox Literary Magazine on June 15.  I have learned a lot about writing from insects--"to dance with my lyricism, grab your attention like a peacock spider flashing his abdomen with its abstract design and iridescent colors to court his female."