Brad Rose was born and raised in California, and lives in Boston. His poetry and fiction appear in print and on-line.
_____________________________________________ UP-COMING PUBLICATIONS
"Approaching
Las Vegas on the Road the Devil Took (A Theodicy)" will appear in May, 2013 at Crack the Spine. "Ken Plans a Trip to Toys R Us" and "Me and Buddy at the Pink Elephant" will appear in June, in Boston Literary Magazine. The prose poem, "My Financial Advisor's Investment Advice," will appear in the July, 2013 issue of Right Hand Pointing. "Thought Experiment" and "The Snow Leopard" will soon appear at MadHad Lit.
- "Coyotes Circle the Party Store," a chapbook of miniature fiction, has been released by Right Hand Pointing.
IN PRINT & ON-LINE
Both the text and audio of the poem, "What I Heard from the Girl WhoTends Bar at ‘The Blackboard’" are in the Spring 2013 issue of Sleetmagazine.com.
"The Doppler Effect" appears in the Spring issue of Main's international poetry magazine, Off the Coast.
"The Traveling Salesman Problem,”“The Next Thing You Know,”and “Rented Tux” are at the Camroc Press Review, May, 2013.
"Why Bob's Never Lost" is in Issue 4, No 4, (May 2013) of The Molotov Cocktail.
"A Girl Like You" appears in the Winter, 2013 issue of The Baltimore Review. "Since Dad Left" and "After Hours" appear in Right Hand Pointing, No. 60. February, 2013.
"A Stabbing" appears at Short, Fast, and Deadly December, 2012. "Writing the Complete Poem" appears at Burningword January, 2013. "Cyborg's Blue Quantum Love Dance" is in the Winter, 2012 issue of Boston Literary Magazine. "Hatchet Job," which appears at Little (flash) Fiction, has been released as an audio file, read by Xe Sands, at Going Public. "Honey Gets Her Wish," which originally appeared in Third Wednesday, is read by Xe Sands.
"Mr. Wittgenstein Writes to Ms. Stein" is published in the Fall, 2012 issue of Off the Coast. "French Final' appears in Blink Ink, vol 13 (Fall 2012)."Even the Trees" and "Titanic" appear in the Fall issue of sleetmagazine.com . "Street Jockey" appears in Right Hand Pointing (No. 56). "Not Enough Bullets" appears in the Summer, 2012 issue of Third Wednesday. "Hatchet Job" is released in e-book and tablet format at Little (flash) Fiction. "Safety Dancing for the Recovering Arsonist," appears at Molotov Cocktail (Volume 3, Issue 12) September, 2012. "Echo and the Bunnymen," and "Listen Until Her Heart's Content," appear in "The Tower of Song Issue," (No. 55), of Right Hand Pointing. "Pink X-Ray"appears in the 2012 issue of the Santa Fe Literary Review." As You Leave" and "Saharan Ants" appear in the Summer, 2012 issue of MICROW.
"Best Man, Reconsidered," a 100-word "drabble" is in the Summer, 2012 Boston Literary Magazine. "While Touring America, Marcel Marceau, Dining at the Des Moines IHOP, Realizes His Cruel Father, Who Forced Him to Train as a Mime, Wasn't Such a Bad Fellow, Afterall," is in Right Hand Pointing (No.53), July, 2012."Rouge Canoe", which originally appeared in Off the Coast, is reprised on the web at Reprint Poetry.
Honey Gets Her Wish," and "The Locksmith's Touch" appear in the poetry journal Third Wednesday, Fall, 2011. "Slash and Burn" appears in the January, 2012 issue of Old Dominion University's, Barely South Review. "Dark House," is in the Spring, 2012 sleetmagazine.com . "Lost at Sea" is in the Feb 1, 2012 issue of The Molotov Cocktail. "Detroit, Unemployed, Three Years," is at cur.ren.cy, April 2012.
"Innumerate Polygamist," appears at Monkeybicycle. The prose poem "Clown Car," is in the Summer, 2011 special issue of Sleetmagazine.com."Dark Matter" is at Staccato Microfiction (Spring 2011, #22). "Rattlers" was published in the Spring, 2011 issue of The Potomac. The flash fiction vignette, "Spikes" and the poem "Second Cousins" appear in the Summer Bloomsday Issue, #19, of riverbabble. "Blue Blind," a "drabble" (an exactly 100-word fiction piece,) about Vladimir Nabokov, is in the Summer, 2011 issue of Boston Literary Magazine.
"A Passenger," appears in the Spring, 2011 edition of San Pedro River Review. "Bull-Leaping to Bach Cantata No. 54 (Stand Firm Against Sin.)" is published in the June 1st, 2011 issue of Molotov Cocktail.
Two flash fiction pieces, "Fresh Kindling," and "Waltz" appear in the Slam and Flash issue of The Legendary. "Desert Newlyweds," is published in the "Harsh Mathematics" issue #40, of Right Hand Pointing, March, 2011. Three poems, “Departure,” "Waiting Room View," and “In the Jardin du Luxembourg, Amid the Little Pink Roses of Spring, Monsieur Zero Disappears,” are published by Centrifugal Eye. "Missing Data," appears in Indigo Risings Surreal Minimalist Contest edition, March, 2011.
"Makes No Difference," appears at Molotov Cocktail, Vol. 1 #23. Two flash fiction stories, "La-Z-Boy at Gunpoint,"and "Siren's Celebration" recently were featured at Fiction at Work. The brief fiction piece,"Clown Art," appeared at MuDJoB on December 8th, 2010. "Arrow of Time" also appears at MuDJoB, in April 2011.
The poem "Alien Territory" is at Folded Word. A small poemette of less than 140 characters, "Anonymous Source," is published at unFold (April 13, 2011)
The poem, "Late Fall," appears in the anthology, Deadlier Than Thou from Short, Fast, and Deadly.
The short prose poem, "Einstein's Random House" appears in the February 24th issue of Calliope Nerve. The poem "The Liberation of the Knife Thrower's Daughter," appears in Right Hand Pointing #33, Summer, 2010. "Rouge Canoe," appears in the Summer 2010 edition of Off the Coast. "Loaded" appears at Fiction At Work on September 8, 2010. "Capsized," appears at Short, Fast,and Deadly. "How I Shot My First Husband" appears in Right Hand Pointing #34, August, 2010. "Almost Like Fun" and "Mannequin in Love" appear in the October, 2010 Issue (no. 36) of Right Hand Pointing. "The Scream" appears in Blue Print Review, August 2010, Issue#25. "Blood Type," is published in Six Little Things, No. 20, Fall, 2010.
"Poor Billy Couldn't Count, Either" appears at Staccato Fiction. The one sentence "story,"Three Months Later, Note for My Ransom, Still Unpaid" appears at Monkeybicycle.
The poem “Tattoo Lover” appears in the anthology Imagination and Place, Winter, 2010. "Snowman" appears in the Winter, 2010 edition of Off the Coast. "Hang Nails" appears in Six Sentence Review Vol. 1, January, 2010. "She Wore Next to Nothing," was published in The Love Book, February, 2010. "Don Juan On Line," appears in Pow Fast Flash Fiction, January, 2010. The flash fiction story, "Lost His Shirt" appears in the book, Word of Mouth.
"Sea to Shining Sea" and "Having the Time of My Life, for Free,"appear in Boston Literary Magazine, Summer, 2010. "Kiss" recently appeared at unFold in June, 2010.
The flash fiction piece, "Two Buds at Cotillion,"appears in the Spring edition 2010 Sleetmagazine.com. The poem "March Snow at Arlington," is published in Third Wednesday, Winter 2009-2010. The nano fiction piece "One Dream, Maybe Two," is in Blink Ink #2. "Poetry is a Crime" appears at Gloom Cupboard.
"Leaving Camarillo State Hospital" FutureCycle Poetry Number 4, 2009 and in Future Cycle Poetry Anthology 2009. “The Scream,” appeared in Tattoo Highway #18, Spring, 2009 and is republished in the August, 2010 issue of BluePrintReview. "San Andreas Fault" appears in the Fall/Winter, 2009 issue of Sleetmagazine.com
"Daddy Longlegs," "That Crazy Little Thing Called Love,”"Adam's BBQ'd Ribs," and "An Apostate Visits the Temple of the Buddha," appear in the Summer, 2009 edition of Boston Literary Magazine.
The poem “Clown Car,” appeared in the Spring/Summer 2007, Up and Under/QND Review. “Pink Crab Spider Eats Bee,” appeared in Getting Something Read, in April, 2008.
The poems Courthouse Elevator, Machines in Love, and Skeleton Lover, are viewable at SpokenWar.
Recent flash fictions pieces, including,
“The Tourist” “Seven Husbands Later,”“Albert Failed,” "Horoscope", "Shaving Mirror", Designated Driver, and Freud's Dentist are all published by Six Sentences.
"Zombie Day,""Shakespeare Expropriated," and "Gangsta Mama," appear at Blink Ink.
"Obituary" appears in the January, 2010 edition of Monkeybicycle and "Rationale" appears in the March, 2010 edition.
“She Loved Richard,” “E-mail Lovers,” “Battle of Statistics,” “Failure to Communicate,” "Middle-Aged Tiki Dance," and other flash fiction pieces have been published by Espresso Stories.
Brad’s flash fiction blog--over 500 six-sentence stories-- is at Six Sentences
His tragicomic novel, written in brief six-sentence chapters, is in progress at Lola Loves Richard .
Six-word "masterpieces" may be read at SMITH Magazine.
