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Marty Shambles
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Feb 26

mourning #3 [poetry video]

we rode in cars with seatbelts that didn’t go across the chest but instead girded the waist, down to the corner store to get 12 packs of cokes. sometimes the car was brown. sometimes blue. sometimes white. always older than me. it was basically a 3 minute drive from…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Published in Shambolic Review

·Sep 2, 2022

Tatterdemalion

Read more at MartyShambles.com Beacon Street was a residential alcove that was close enough to downtown that everything was close, but far enough away to escape much of the bustle. It was the fourth financial quarter and the leaves were turning their dead hues. Alan and Mary Pinkerton lived halfway…

Short Story

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Tatterdemalion
Tatterdemalion
Short Story

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Jun 26, 2022

3 Fourth of July Dishes That Say, “This is a Fine and Normal Country”

The 4th of July is a time to reflect on the Land of the Free, and not to brood on how fucked everything is. …

Humor

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3 Fourth of July Dishes That Say, “This is a Fine and Normal Country”
3 Fourth of July Dishes That Say, “This is a Fine and Normal Country”
Humor

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Jun 23, 2022

An open letter to the sommelier that kicked me out of another wine tasting

Hey Wine Nerd, That wine didn’t taste like walnuts and sawdust. It tasted like wine. I know this because I’ve tasted a lot of wine in my life: from the blood of Christ to the gallons of Bota Box sitting in my wine cellar. That’s wine-flavored wine. My wife hates…

Comedy

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An open letter to the sommelier that kicked me out of another wine tasting
An open letter to the sommelier that kicked me out of another wine tasting
Comedy

2 min read


Jun 17, 2022

STUDY: NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD ELIGIBLE FOR WRITING CONTEST

A demographic survey of potential participants in a writing contest for Black Mockingbird Press found that nobody in the entire world is eligible to enter. The contest description, originally posted on the Black Mockingbird Press website, starts with the usual flourish of what the press is looking for in its…

Humor

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STUDY: NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD ELIGIBLE FOR WRITING CONTEST
STUDY: NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD ELIGIBLE FOR WRITING CONTEST
Humor

2 min read


Published in Shambolic Review

·Jun 10, 2022

Assets

Jenny knew that art was dead. Her paintings of high praise were reduced to speculative assets, which were used in money laundering schemes and investment portfolios, and nobody actually cared about the paintings themselves. …

Fiction

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Assets
Assets
Fiction

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Jun 5, 2022

Did you know you can use Kindle Create files to format your paperback?

Yep. I done wrote a book. Or rather, I collected my favorite stories into one perfect-bound collection, also known as a book. It took some doing to get to this point. I never put a print book on amazon before because I was daunted by the formatting issues. But then…

Kindle

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Did you know you can use Kindle Create files to format your paperback?
Did you know you can use Kindle Create files to format your paperback?
Kindle

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May 9, 2022

Choreography of a Fall

1. Neglect meant we were spared from the sanctimony of attention. Behind a line of parked cars, we built a fort to stay forever. Our parents were at the bar. So this is how we lived. For all we knew we were born there. We learned to speak through the…

Novella

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Choreography of a Fall
Choreography of a Fall
Novella

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Apr 30, 2022

Planned Obsolescence

Everyone decided the internet was a bad idea. The progenitors of this network recanted their utopian visions for shared information. Even tech billionaires and politicians called for its abolition. By the time we’d had our fifth pandemic in 10 years, all our brains had warped inexorably. We couldn’t agree on…

Fiction

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Planned Obsolescence
Planned Obsolescence
Fiction

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Apr 22, 2022

Monster High

In my dreams I am in a particular high school and everyone is dead in one way or another: zombies, vampires, skeletons. I’m told this is the premise for a children’s show, which is horrifying to me. Kids shouldn’t go to that school. I go there because I have to…

Microfiction

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Monster High
Monster High
Microfiction

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Marty Shambles

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Pushcart nominated author of short fiction. New book available at EMPBooks.com

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