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30/07/2024

Like Sipping on Serenity: A Journey Through Poetry and Tibetan Tea in Anna Waldman’s ‘Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds’

30/07/2024

Like Sipping on Serenity: A Journey Through Poetry and Tibetan Tea in Anna Waldman’s ‘Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds’ by Mallory Smart

Anne Waldman’s Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds is like hopping into a time machine and landing smack in the middle of a Beat Generation poetry slam, with a Tibetan monk holding your hand. Waldman doesn’t just write about the mix of poetics and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy; she makes you feel like you...

29/07/2024

Speaking Backwards by Brittany Deitch

Dating someone is kinda like sitting at the coffee shop and grabbing the window seat as soon as the guy gets up. Swooping in as soon as his stuff leaves the table’s perimeters, before someone else could take it first. I do this, and I apologize as I do. Normally, I make some stupid comment about t...

26/07/2024

Sea Foam by Brandon Forinash

It all started one of those late Thursday nights her first year of college when Elizabeth (Lizzy) was working on some essay or project (forgive me, I am telling this story second hand) that was due the next day. Her roommate was post-gaming with a few other rushees. Her phone was buzzing with incess...

25/07/2024

6pm, NYE by West Ambrose

We sat a place for you, (and you and you…) We sat a place, we dressed in our finest and left the empty hangers, laden with heavy sequined-jackets in you case you wanted to wear one out. We asked the waiter for all the specials, please there’s no rush, we danced with strangers till half past thre...

24/07/2024

I Am the Elevator You’re Stuck Inside, and Trust Me, I Don’t Want to Be Here Either by Ryan Bender-Murphy

https://maudlinhouse.net/i-am-the-elevator-youre-stuck-inside-and-trust-me-i-dont-want-to-be-here-either/

23/07/2024

Your New Matches on Tinder by Adam McOmber

https://maudlinhouse.net/your-new-matches-on-tinder/

22/07/2024

When Terri Locked Me Out of Our Doomsday Bunker by Mike Itaya

https://maudlinhouse.net/when-terri-locked-me-out-of-our-doomsday-bunker/

19/07/2024

Early 90s Literacy by Kristen Schmitt

I started reading Henry Millerbecause Ed Kowalcyzk told me to;Pen and ink jeansThreadbare discontentI wore my nihilismOn my sleeve: clear, conciseEvolution to Palahniuk’s wordsCoughing on the pageGreedy prose; callouts I could seeWhen I closed my eyesLearning curve;Balanced the grit of the vocalis...

18/07/2024

Modern Weapons by J.M. Lyons

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18/07/2024

Modern Weapons by J.M. Lyons

Since the divorce, my daughter and I use the oak tree in the backyard of my rental house as target practice. It’s our way of bonding. I convince Sarah to pretend the people she hates the most are standing in front of the tree and so she says one knife is for Derek and the other is for Tiffany. I h...

17/07/2024

Fire Island Rhapsody by Daniel Brennan

old gods under our skin &in the breeze of laceratingbrine that scalpels this island’schest right down the centerour hands plunge inwarm themselves with its squealing entrailsour champing teeth relentlesswith their dancewet tongues beholdento a language of dying loversthe men whose skinbecame maps ...

16/07/2024

Airplane Toilet Thought Exercise by Leo Vartorella

https://maudlinhouse.net/airplane-toilet-thought-exercise/

15/07/2024

An Airbnb in Albion, Michigan by Alisa Ungar-Sargon

https://maudlinhouse.net/an-airbnb-in-albion-michigan/

15/07/2024

The Ugliest Places in America by Jess Golden

https://maudlinhouse.net/the-ugliest-places-in-america/

15/07/2024

We asked you to ‘Keep Maudlin Weird,’ and 2025 is shaping up to be our weirdest year yet… Stay tuned!

12/07/2024

A Letter to Peter Blume by Chad Sullivan

Blume– If only rafters buckled more easily. If only his studio had been fireproof and Agnes faithful. If only automobiles didn’t accordion against walls and vertebrae rupture. If only his mother hadn’t starved to death. I’m sorry you found Gorky hanging in the barn, Blume. I’m sorry for th...

11/07/2024

Control by Terena Elizabeth Bell

https://maudlinhouse.net/control/

11/07/2024

ICYMI: Bobby Miller is gearing up to twist your reality with his debut novel, SITUATION NOWHERE! Hitting shelves March 2025.

Get ready for a future where AI reigns and soda’s problematic...🤖🥤

10/07/2024

Drumroll, please…we are psyched to announce the novel that will complete our 2025 line up: SITUATION NOWHERE by Bobby Miller.

Buckle up for a satirical odyssey that’s as quirky as a Wes Anderson flick and as sharp as a Gaiman tale. Coming to warp your bookshelves in March 2025!

10/07/2024

STRAY by Lynn Marie Rossi

https://maudlinhouse.net/stray/

09/07/2024

[blank white card] in bed by John Waddy Bullion

Whenever I find myself In a creative rut I take out my deck Of Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” cards— Slips of paper stamped with cryptic aphorisms Designed to help artists Generate new ideas And come at vexing problems From innovative And imaginative Angles Here are some examples: So when ...

08/07/2024

If San Antonio is My Final Resting Place, Just Kick Me Over the County Line by V Garmon Koski

Stars and other bu****it swirl above, overdone as only the day-in-day-out night sky can be. The most hauntingly trite backdrop to meet your end beneath. White-knuckling the hot asphalt, trying my hardest not to fall off the street. Ear cocked to the ether, waiting for a boilerplate email reply to cu...

08/07/2024

Mr. Death Never Saw His Own Shadow: A Review of Eugene Marten's 'Layman's Report' by Dmitry Samarov

Sometimes a book will paint a person in an entirely new light. Fred Leuchter—the Holocaust-denying, self-taught ex*****on equipment engineer and star of Errol Morris’s 1999 documentary, Mr. Death—is nothing like what I thought he was in Eugene Marten’s coldly brilliant novel. The first chapt...

05/07/2024

First Date Fairytale Set in Los Angeles by Lily Nobel

Harper is waiting outside the restaurant when I get there, waving at me with her small hand, which is disproportionate to the rest of her body. I’m cradling my head to my shoulder because a worm is coming out of my ear. It emerges segment by segment. I put my hand up as if scratching the side of m...

03/07/2024

Patience (n): the ability to tolerate delay with grace by Jennifer Lai

c’mon lady scan faster chop chop this ain’t a talk show damn that’s a lot of cat food wow look at the lines sheesh good thing I got here early ha sucks to be them think I got everything—chips cake juice balloons burgers ice cream—shoot there was something else what was it? Answer the phone...

02/07/2024

Dragon Ball Z Slow Cooker / I'll Bet $100 by Luc M

https://maudlinhouse.net/dragon-ball-z-slow-cooker-ill-bet-100/

01/07/2024

San Diego Howie Con by Joey Grossman

https://maudlinhouse.net/san-diego-howie-con/

01/07/2024

Maudlin House’s employee of the month…

27/06/2024

Breakup Robot by Liz Fyne

I married the breakup robot. Her name was Lucia. She’d been rented by Joan, my girlfriend of seven years, who’d tired of our relationship but didn’t feel like giving me the news, herself. Long ago, in Japan, it was common to rent actors to impersonate people from your life: dead family members...