VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lacy

LAST WORD OF 2021…

Usually you’d be seeing a VOICES FROM THE FIRE post about this time of day…. Surprisingly though CHILDHOOD’S END: TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHUMANS & WAITING FOR LUCY dropped today… The year end anthology from Dumpster Fire Press…CHILDHOOD’S END encompassing two concepts..TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES an homage to superheroes as well as a tribute to heroismContinue reading “LAST WORD OF 2021…”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: R.Keith

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Dillinger

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Paul Tanner

meat like him lonely? oh aye – he’s got: no job. no friends. no girl. the benefits office boots him out after he’s signed the forms. the jobcentre tells him to get back out there. his local boozer is full of couples and families, and any singles in there are usually too young and/or outContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Paul Tanner”

DEATH BY PUNK: A Milestone

Today is a bittersweet release of DFP’s first anthology DEATH BY PUNK… First the sweet before the bitter…About a couple of months ago I put out a call for an anthology that was going to serve as a giant love-letter to the spirit of : punk , DIY and counter culture in general with someContinue reading “DEATH BY PUNK: A Milestone”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: S.A. Gerber

Another round I’m drinking with Edgar  while Baudelaire claws  the turf and howls outside.  Poe is a lot drunker than  he should be…a cheap date,  a ‘lightweight’ even.  “You know that Lowell  wrote that I am only two-  fifth’s genius?”, he stutters.  “So fucking what!”, I reply,  Look what you did to that  guy outContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: S.A. Gerber”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Paul Tanner

organ to organ don’t laugh at their joke? the customer gets mad. don’t ask follow-up questions to their life story? the customer gets mad. serve everyone in the queue who is before them before them? the customer gets mad. the customer is never not mad. one wonders if being right all the time is worthContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Paul Tanner”

Flaming garbage

It was a short week for DFP, after the deluge of two releases and the premier of VOICES FROM THE FIRE… This week was more the routine I’m going for even though civilian life isn’t exactly normal right now working a job that shouldn’t be demanding with a consistently fluctuating schedule in which one isContinue reading “Flaming garbage”