Samuel M. Moss
@perfidiouscript
Fiction: @3ammagazine, @MinorLits, @NewWorldWriting, @New_sinews. Editor at @1111Press and runs @ErgotPress
Very glad to have two new stories - 'Near Where the Rector Had Stood' and 'My Program' - up today on minor literature[s].
"I had to get away from my program, which had turned stifling, so I went to the famous church on the edge of campus ..." TWO STORIES by @perfidiouscript minorliteratures.com/2023/03/30/two…
new_sinews Skid Tokyo awp offsite reading !! Thursday 3/27 @ The Escondite in downtown LA ... 410 Boyd Street ... doors 5pm reading 6pm.. (5-8 also === Happy Hour @ The Escondite ) ... featuring: Gabriel Palacios ... @alvinlu ... @allis0nhummel @iLLepitaph ... @perfidiouscript
new_sinews is planning an AWP offsite reading in the "Skid-Tokyo" section of Los Angeles—and it could completely change the future of Business.................
Monthly Dispatch #21 — February 2025 feat. @MichaelSevy @sarahkdawson @james_rodker @tylerleeholter Joel Gordon, Golan Haji, Tyler Cain Lacy, @perfidiouscript & more ... minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-disp…
“There is another language,” he said, his voice very low and quiet, “lying within this one.” He paused, tapped his pen against his chin. “And another logic, too, sleeps within this logic.” @perfidiouscript
Dr. Lysergus and the Holy Fool — Samuel M. Moss (@perfidiouscript) minorliteratures.com/2025/02/20/dr-…
Monthly Dispatch #21 — ft. @MichaelSevy @sarahkdawson @james_rodker @tylerleeholter Joel Gordon, Golan Haji, Tyler Cain Lacy, @perfidiouscript & more — goes out Friday! sign up link follows
ICYMI: a crisply ethereal excerpt from @perfidiouscript's soon forthcoming novel THE VELDT INSTITUTE appeared in @MinorLits last week: minorliteratures.com/2025/02/20/dr-… check out too another excerpt from new_sinews issue5: newnewsinews.com/moss
"But faith, faith! That is the master signifier, the thing from which all meaning springs ..." Dr. Lysergus and the Holy Fool — @perfidiouscript minorliteratures.com/2025/02/20/dr-…
"I have started working with Dr. Lysergus. Was it today or yesterday?" Dr. Lysergus and the Holy Fool — @perfidiouscript minorliteratures.com/2025/02/20/dr-…
Dr. Lysergus and the Holy Fool — Samuel M. Moss (@perfidiouscript) minorliteratures.com/2025/02/20/dr-…
what books are coming out in 2025 that feature fairy tales, fables, folklore, myths, wolves, witches, surrealism, haunted forests, ancient villages, and/or cursed fever dreams?
Returning to the suburbs we hear leafblowers calling to one another like mourning doves
Not to detract from the significance of this victory, but I can't help but notice that neither the US military nor the CIA has ever been held accountable for its torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq.
↓ Rafael Anton Irisarri: Façadisms (Black Knoll Editions BKE019) ☞ hardwax.com/08208/rafael-a…
I spoke with Nathan Dragon about odd jobs, working on @B_Arrangements with @raegan_bird, and being a retired boxer. His stellar debut story collection, THE CHAMP IS HERE, is out 12/12. Thank you to Nathan for speaking with me and to @Cary_O_Cary for editing this piece.
"His narrators daydream themselves into boxers, pumpkins, and drowning victims. Parakeets die like bats, and laborers only know they exist when their workplace’s punch-in clock confirms: 'IN AT ALL.'" @NikSlackman_ interviews Nathan Dragon clereviewofbooks.com/writing/nathan…
So we go on like this and what? Eventually there is one dude that owns everything and we pay that dude every time time we want anything? And then what?