Rotten Pleasantness: Dark & Strange Poems and Prose

My first chapbook is full of things dark and strange. These 24 poems and flash pieces work to demonstrate the loss of innocence to the dark forces surrounding us. The reader is invited on a journey through childhood nostalgia, teenage awkwardness, and unhealthy romances twisted by the powers of magical realism. Monsters will appear, the inanimate will come to life, and all will get lost in the murkiness between real and imaginary.

Poems will be added once (sometimes twice) a day until October 28th.

If you like the poems and stories, consider buying the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B071DYJHXM/

Acknowledgments:
"When We Were Young" and "Submerged" appeared in Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal, Issue 1.3, Summer 2016.

"Waiting for Big Benny" appeared in "Waiting for Big Benny: A VR Poem" at VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo. Created by Roberto Sosa. Toronto, Ontario. June 25, 2016.

"Once Upon a Bicycle" appeared in Phantom Kangaroo, Issue 23, May 2016.

"Ritual" appeared in Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, Issue, April 2016.

"Festivity" appeared in Apocrypha and Abstractions, April 2016.