Dominick Reading for Filth is an illustrated chapbook with transcripts from live readings, published September 2013. Available in the US, UK and Europe from CreateSpace at the link. From: “R U Available?” p. 59: I’m willing to put it all out there, to own it, to be my whole self. I’m able to love this person… Continue reading Dominick Reading for Filth
Category: nonfiction
Choke a Horse
Appeared in Prose & Lore, Issue 3, Fall 2013, edited by Audacia Ray. I can’t remember what combination of factors made me desperate enough to tie G to one of his throne-like Gothic Revival chairs, with peacock blue flocked velvet upholstery. I used his colorful neckties, from Turnbull and Asser, the venerable bespoke tailor in… Continue reading Choke a Horse
Nailed Up
also appeared in Issue 2 of Prose & Lore, July 2013, edited by Audacia Ray. After his addiction and heartbreak in the face of my cruelty put the decorator in a bronze urn, I embarked on my thirties with a nice fat inheritance. My alcoholic Sugar Daddy was dead, and I was free to live on my own terms.… Continue reading Nailed Up
Gemini’s Twins
published in Issue 2 of Prose & Lore, July 2013, edited by Audacia Ray. At one point as I’m walking along the seafront in Barceloneta, a young boy points at me and says “Mira Papi, un pirata!” and his father calmly responds “Si, es un pirata.” On the eve of my birthday, I go to a… Continue reading Gemini’s Twins
Dirty Tricks & Happy Endings
appeared in the 2013 Soft Skull Press Anthology Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks edited by David Henry Sterry. Nonfiction. p. 281 “I never heard from Cherry again, nor did I ever seek him out. All these years later, I like to picture Cherry having really raucous and funny sex, with boys who deserve him, with a… Continue reading Dirty Tricks & Happy Endings
Cali Boy
Pros(e) was the original title of the journal of the Red Umbrella Project, now called Prose & Lore. Three short pieces appear in Issue I, the inaugural edition, edited by Melissa Petro. “Vitis Vinifera ‘Fantasy”, “Cali Boy”, and “A Dialog, Gouverneur Street, NYC”. 2012. from “Cali Boy”: I lost him, my twitchy, hot-running, gangly body all knees and elbows, hapless… Continue reading Cali Boy