Black Hearted

Joan Jett, eat yer heart out

I’ve a new story in Black Heart Magazine’s Noir issue, edited by Jailbreakin’ Jimmy Callaway and featuring Daniel B. O’Shea, Cameron Ashley, AJ Hayes, Jonathan Woods, Nik Korpon, Chris Deal, Alexander Kraft, Chris Benton, Kieran, Garnett, Keith Rawson, among many others. And it’s only $2.99! Download it already. Here is a teaser from my story:

Monkey in a Barrel
By R. Narvaez

A NAKED WOMAN with a gun can be a lot less interesting than you’d think. When the gun is pointed at you. And when the lady in question — as lovely as she is with high, pointed breasts, razor-sharp hipbones, and knee dimples cuter than Minnie Mouse — has killed twice before, without pause, without guilt.

“I like you, Kempe,” she said, not getting any closer, but getting slightly colder, it seemed.

“This is sad to me.”

“I’m not exactly doing cartwheels about it myself.”

“You’re a waste of good material.”

“Sure. Like an ugly blonde.”

For more, go here.

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Asinine Fireworks

Our July issue is up!

poems
Beach Manager Blues by Natalie M. Dorfeld, PhD
What Lame — Anemic Creatures — by Apple Dickinson
Ragweed by Jenifer Lee Wallace
No Sex with Insects by Callie Cardamon
After Thoreau by David Alpaugh
¿Donde Está La Casa de Pepe? by Colonel Drunky Bob

prose
Cozy Cabin, A Tale of Immigration by Skip Toumalou
Consider the Lowly Flame by Bernie Keating
Fatty Patty: Jumbo Love Doll by Joe Fusco Jr.

classic asinine
A Young Lady of Niger by William Cosmo Monkhouse

asinine podcast
Episode 91: Mission Asinine: Asinine Protocol

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Silly as Summer Appears

Our latest issue is out.

poems
Dickhead by William Trowbridge
Bananas by Marc Carver
Half the Russian Wrestlers by Michael Frissore
Master Debate on May 22, 2011 by G. Nash
Emergency Action Drills by Natalie M. Dorfeld, PhD
Jenny’s Song by Roger Unrequited*

prose
Losing My Religion: Oprahcalypse Now! by Judy Maitland
Da Last Speaker o’ Engrish Dies by Richard Cairo*
The Marriage, Right by Marybeth Niederkorn, Poet Extraordinaire

classic asinine
Comic Miseries by John G. Saxe

podcast
Episode 90: Asinine: First Class*

app!
Download the new Asinine Poetry app for free.

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Take a Powder

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

I have a new story up in the very cool and very noir flash fiction journal Powder Burn Flash. Here’s an excerpt.

Good Fences

By R.Narvaez

Joe walked out his front door, down the stoop, and over to Frank’s door. He rang the bell twice.

“I want to talk to you about your dogs,” Joe got around to saying.

Frank was 68, a retired cop. Well over six feet tall, he stood behind the barely opened door and blocked any view of the inside. His bushy eyebrows didn’t move. His big, fig-shaped face stayed blank.

“They bark all day. They never stop barking,” Joe went on. “Then they do their business right there by the fence. You can smell it. It brings flies. You know what I mean.”

“What do you want me to do about it?,” said Frank.

Read the rest here.

 

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Looking for Clues

In what I hope will be just one of the many events to promote You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mysteries for Teens (Arte Publico) in the tristate area, I will be discussing/reading/signing along with Sizzling Sarah Cortez, Serious Sergio Troncoso, and Cantankerous Carlos Hernandez at New Jersey City University‘s M. Jerry Weiss Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Grossnickle Hall, Room 144).

 

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Lawn Guyland Noir

I’ll be at Suffolk County Community College Creative Writing Festival this Saturday, May 7, 11 a.m., on the panel for the anthology Long Island Noir (edited by Kaylie Jones and due out next year from Akashic). My story “Ending in Paumanok” will be included in the anthology. Also on the panel will be Rockin’ Reed Farrel Coleman, Jazzy J.Z. Holden, and Kinky Ken Wishnia. All my Lawn Guyland homeys should endeavor to “represent.” I’m looking at you, John Collis.

UPDATE: Only Ken and I showed up to panel, but it was still a fun event. Good audience. Great questions. However, you are not forgiven, John.

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Mayday, Mayday. This Is Asinine. Can You Read Me?

poems
Ta by Bill Jansen
Cabfare from the Airport by William Trowbridge
Midnight Nemesis by Douglas Turner
Malediction: Vile Roach by Callie Cardamon
Poetic Sin: Its Wages by David Alpaugh
Girls Poo Faster by V.S. Frimmit*

prose
Shooting an Elephant Werewolf by The Bare-Fanged Contessa*
I’ll Have the Fish by M.B. O’Connor
Why Basmati Rice Is the Bane of the Worldwide Lurking Community by Matt Medina

classic asinine
The Height of the Ridiculous by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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