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 Unexpected endorsement! "As it turns out, Justin Stone's Rookie Night Radio Show (2010-2011) was both the first and the final podc...

New old story:  No Rest For The Wary  http://www.justindavidstone.com/2023/04/no-rest-for-wary.html

The wonderful editors at Quip Literary Review have published my short story "Sky Clipper" in their yearning summer Issue 5. Very ...

Wonderful news! My short story "Either Raygun Or" appears in the Fall 2021 issue of  storySouth  —  their 20th Anniversary issue! ...

 I don't know. Some updates over here

We are buried intentionally in dangerous and useless and weightless wordage; literature remains the sole reminder of what carefully wrought ...

Money is a curse and under it life on earth is hell. Life could be family, community, experience, wonder, love.

Pitch: A world of untold, untellable suffering. Man: Great. Let's do it.

all I can tell: they wish to memorize another golgotha from far away

the season: ten thousand strikeouts and the slow roller past the falling first base     man

One dream comes true.

Justin Verlander pitched another hard no- no, and I tried to crack a joke about how I am the Justin Verlander of estranged manuscripts...

most of those old west letters never got there

When something passes in the dark, I try to tell its side of the story. "I am passing someone in the dark," it thinks... The...

Another institution is pleased to not offer you a position. Thank you for rushing soundless into the void.

Trauma burns the earth, body, eyes. How does one care for anything but? I wish a reckoning on the dollar-eyed demons who terrorize children ...

I know your bosses, demagogues, gods, and other discourse keepers grind you down. Perhaps you may steal quiet moments to reflect, newly be. ...

Yes, yes, yes. My short story " Gateway to the Rest " appears in the new summer issue of  Eclectica Magazine , one of the most ven...

Super excited to announce that I act in the forthcoming holiday horror anthology  Deathcember . Click  here  to see the teaser trailer and r...

The Oligarch & the Evangelical "Believe me: I'm doing great. Anyone can see that. Let's make sure I keep doing great....

Squeegee your third eye, ready blankets and water: my story "Gateway to the Rest" comes your way next week from a sweet, wise publ...

every train the loneliest destination

Of course there is no accounting for taste, and mine is made by privileges, biases, markets, algorithms, and countless other invisible socia...

this fucking Chucky doll just bit the shit out of my mom and I'm offering to the first bidder for $50,000 zero questions asked. bm me pl...

Evil, grievously offended, would prefer to be called "Sir" or "Patriot who gives brown babies a caged vacation from their fam...

if you wish a ship mate with small shaky hands

the executioner's face need not be well hidden

Jesus christ, he's over here fucking around now.

"Acts have consequences, Dixon, they must. These Louts believe all's right now,— that they are free to get on with Lives that to th...

Who else gets mad when content isn't ahistorical, entertainment-oriented, or directly referencing me?

I pray for the end to money's murder-grip on human being.

I was blurry when I wrote , "look closely. listen closely. what we have here may well be the single truest folk rock n' roll perfor...

A post about a poster posting. At the end, they discover they are... A. a bot B. a Stepstool & Necktie advertisement C. not a writer...

Night Moves , by the wildly creative Stephanie Barber , repurposes comments from a Youtube page for Bob Seger's song "Night Moves,...

in the morning we were under water— cool, puffy, floating

". . . a curriculum that isn't designed to liberate you but to occupy you . . ." —Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary

"...for Commerce without Slavery is unthinkable, whilst Slavery must ever include, as an essential Term, the Gallows,— Slavery without ...

Remember that day the MYS Unreflective got sunk and we lost every last grinning maven in the Chillax Bros 12th Detach? Well, thanks—I was on...

What a bunch of shitty shitty shitty fucking assholes. It is difficult to figure out where one ends and the others begin, but these seemingl...

I read a new novel that I can not stop thinking about: The City of Folding Faces , written by Jayinee Basu , published by Lanternfish Press ...

please do not tell me how this thing ends

The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which one ought always to compose,—that, we fear, can seldom be ours. Dollars damn ...

"It may be they call her raggedy because power loathes the poor. And where loathing lives exploitation follows easily. Who cannot see ...

One of my short stories was a finalist for  Ruminate Magazine 's 2019 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize. Many tantalizing near landings...

" . . . funny, terrible, terrible, and boring."

Reading to see what I have missed. A lot of people are trying but for the elect oral college.

Glow in the glow, doubt in the day.

I thought the mountain bigger than it was, but I saw a cloud.

Somebody said they were all worried about education in the United States, had this frigging detailed laundry list and everything, but I remi...

night, dawn— houses with lights on

"They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability...

Just going to leave this here

"Write a little every day, vacillating wildly between between hope and despair." — Justin D. Stone

Neorealist  X-Men  reinvention — Professor X is an adjunct professor? Adjunct Professor X? Substitute Teacher X? Next-Gen Scoring Software X...

Does anyone know where we can get these Bright Starts Automatic Bouncer tracks on vinyl? Where we can hear the dust and...

Friday for an American Asshole 1. Refuse back pay for low wage contract workers 2. Declare racist "national emergency" 3. Jet ...

The Entertainment, The Man (or, Every- time  I Turn Around I Found I'm Shot ) Source:  Kerr, Walter....

U.S. corporation: "Hey, thank you, thank you so much for all this work you're doing! We really appreciate it! We could not be here ...

Shel Silverstein (1974) way out past the curve Where the Sidewalk Ends

Today in shit memes: 1) "Illegal" isn't a noun, racist. No human being is illegal. 1-A) Real life huma...

I guess I should start out by telling you I'm four months old. I'm coming to appreciate the practice of critical re-reading. Just li...

"She just put her arms around me and said, 'It's okay, you're okay. Sorrow is nothing but worn-out joy.'" — Old ...

Hollywood — A side-eyed pack of chortling rich boys who can't read, write, or empathize their way out of their designer shirts come to ...

(The many times I went back to) Rockville

In 1988, during a 4-issue  Batman  run called "A Death in the Family," readers were allowed to vote, via two 900 phone numbers, wh...

Depart-ment of Nude Jo kes Knock, Knock. Who's there? A petulant, racist, oligarch garbage bag of skin stuffed with poisonous bl...

I don't believe Trump truly wanted to be president. He really just desired to continue wielding the chicanery of capitalism—whereby the ...

I get asked all the time so here's a secret: key to this blog's longevity is that it's written for kids, adults, and dolphins.

Hee Haw skit Cornpone: My daughter blew an egg out her nose. Rubbery Farmer:  Holy moly. Did it hurt? Cornpone: I don't know — sh...

the false flag is in your heart

De-partment of Nude Jokes What does the devil say when he investigates himself? My economy is booming

when has rule of law  not been the sound of o ppression

no checks, no balance, three illegitimate branches of government

2018 and I don't know anything

If only we could extend this surging conservative interest in the presumption of innocence, sympathy for young people, and forgiveness for a...

The work is so silent even the shortest handwritten note on a formal rejection from a favorite literary magazine— Zoetrope: All-Story —feels...

My kid. I told her she's the only good gig that ever called back and she said, "I know. We're in a lot of trouble. But what the...

My daughter's cat. I know, I know. When you're three weeks old you get whatever you want.

My 8-day old daughter was sleep talking and she said, ". . . things never worked out for my old man . . ." She's brilliant.

Pynchon, in Gravity's Rainbow , offers some excellent mottos for the new/old imperial Space Force. To name a few: "All the animal...

I appear in the music video for Tim Rutili and Craig Ross's song " Greasing Up the Third Eye ." Ghettoblaster Magazine debuts ...

A lesson should be that oligarchs—American, Russian, or otherwise—do whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want, and to whom...

On the one hand I am desperate for time to slow, for mortality to please extend its illusory promise. On the other hand, however, I'm an...

A racist, misogynist, homophobic lot of dads, uncles, and boyfriends—direct beneficiaries of the last time the U.S. had high corporate taxes...

On October 23, just weeks before the election, Simon & Schuster is proud to release a bold new collection of essays from tireless U.S. t...

No way does the racist demagogue deserve civility or respect. This is a man who made his name among the right wing base stoking racist fears...

On October 23, just weeks before the election, Simon & Schuster is proud to release a bold new memoir from the last true American torch-...

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all space force, no life force

often i put on rafa pistola and let play

Do not let monsters make false equivalency: critical reflection about and critical action against white supremacy, racism, patriarchy, and c...

Stewart Lupton beat me up. Stewart Lupton slept on my floor. Stewart Lupton stole into my stories, penned pointed rejection slips. I stalked...

It is a shit world. But also, sometimes, in the right light, it is a shit world.

Dept. of Nude Jokes Knock, knock. Who's there? Your adjunct employee. Our what? Justin? Who?

From A Nation At  Risk (1983) We constructed a no nonsense solution, historically necessary, great for profits, stake holders, marke...

Nothing saves him who's never loved. No world is safe in that one's keeping. —Li-Young Lee, " The Undressing " (wonder...

Galoot's Pitch? What about those jobs where you do something bad and make some money? I only find the ones you do something bad a...

Kevin Ford's By The River: Further Downstream is a "supplemental extension of the non-fiction film" that "artfully weave...

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